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Infinidat’s new innovation lab doubles as datacenter playground | #theCUBE
What happens when a company puts together an innovation lab, a briefing center and a product showcase? Well, when Infinidat did just that in Waltham, Mass., it created a veritable magnet for customers, channel partners and collaborators from across North America. This is according to the company’s Chief Marketing Officer Randy Arseneau. Arseneau spoke to Stu Miniman ...
Self storage: Freeing up the team for the new cloud-compute world | #theCUBE
DevOps and containers are freeing up developers from “plumbing” concerns and allowing them to work and innovate high up the stack. Will advances in storage allow storage pros to graduate from grunt work in a similar way? Infinidat Inc. says companies using their InfiniBox storage array are seeing just such a change in their storage ...
Hyper-storage: inside the bleeding-edge of datacenter innovation | #theCUBE
It’s difficult to think of a single area in IT that has in the past two years progressed the way that storage has. Increasing speeds, all-flash arrays and Non-Volatile Memory Express have ratcheted storage to unprecedented levels of performance. However, it is still challenging for enterprises to choose among the storage types available, especially as ...
Can an on-prem-cloud hybrid service solve companies’ open-source quandary? | #KubeCon
Companies wanting to stay on tech’s bleeding edge face a bit of a quandary these days: Most agree that the latest, greatest software is happening in open source; however, the job of curating and operating it is too messy for the IT teams at most businesses. We spoke with one startup co-founder who believes they’ve ...
Can an orchestration layer contain the container sprawl at enterprises? | #KubeCon
It’s well and good to say that a container can simplify the running of an application — singular. But what about when we’re talking about hundreds or thousands of applications? Many enterprises have so many applications to manage now that even with containers, it can be difficult to hold the reins. Some say an orchestration ...
Nutanix wants to be #1 in hyper-converged: Can their ‘coopetiton’ handle it? | #NEXTConf
Nutanix Inc. wrapped its conference in Vienna, Austria, this week on the heels of its successful IPO. Valued at over $3 billion, the hyper-converged infrastructure company is poised to become the leader in its market. However, stiff competition from other players, as well as friction with partners, threaten to throw a wrench in its plans. ...
A look under the hood: Do you know how your IT service provider works? | #NEXTConf
Industry analysts warn that revenue is moving from hard assets to services, and companies (especially technology companies) better take note. IT service providers are cropping up offering companies ways to outsource processes to them. But before businesses pay for these services, they may want to take a look under the hood to see how they ...
Are containers and distributed systems the engine for self-driving infrastructure? | #KubeCon
Virtualization and automation are spreading through the entire IT environment. The cloud is allowing companies to get out of the data center business, and focus on applications and software higher up the stack. And then, of course, containers are making application development and deployment easier than ever before. What will they think of next? How ...
Outside the box: hyperconverged infrastructure and the economy of innovation | #NEXTConf
While the digital transformation holds promise for companies to increase profits and deliver value to customers, these are still early days. Businesses may feel rushed to implement unproven technologies that dig deep into their budgets. In this new era, they must find new test and development avenues that put less skin in the game, according ...
Is there a chink in Amazon’s armor that could give smaller cloud providers an edge? | #NEXTConf
What is it about Amazon? First it disrupted retail worldwide with its online mega merchandise emporium. Now with Amazon Web Services, it has legacy technology behemoths like Oracle on the watch for deep cuts into their markets. It’s enough to have smaller, more modest cloud service providers shaking in their boots — unless they can find the ...
