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Living on the edge: Security threats loom as IoT decentralizes the data center | #IOConversation
The idea of a single monolithic firewall to provide protection from cyber threats is becoming a bit quaint. The data center is breaking up and moving to multiple environments — this is true for most companies moving to the cloud and doubly true for those involved in the Internet of Things (IoT). This is putting ...
First cloud, now fog: Meet the floating layer that talks to applications at the edge | #Riverbed
Multi-clouding is breaking up applications and scattering them across the virtualized universe. This is undoubtedly creating challenges to swift communication of data among all these different environments. Yet no one denies that multi-clouding is a net positive for most businesses, so the big push is for better means for applications to talk to each other ...
Can Riverbed win the race to break the new network bottleneck? | #Riverbed
Some folks who work in IT have summed up the field as a search-and-destroy mission against bottlenecks, wherever they may be at the moment. Cutting-edge innovation is forever butting up against some older system that is not equal in speed or efficiency. Developers and investors know that whoever is first to break the choke point ...
If cloud is the new hardware, are applications the new data center? | #VMworld
The majority of conversations around migrating to the cloud focus on what is conserved — time, expense and effort spent on hardware and infrastructure maintenance. What an organization gains in turn is a less chattered-about but nonetheless exciting topic. As more enterprises work out the pains of moving to cloud and get established there, they ...
Ecosystem 2.0: Can VMware’s ‘partnering tornado’ sweep customers to success? | #WomenInTech
As IT sprawl looms, some companies are tightening bonds within their ecosystems with the goal of helping customers reign it all in. Multi-cloud and inter-cloud environments are trending, and they require concerted efforts by multiple players to perform complex tasks. This growing body of partners and vendors will require customer feedback for crucial intelligence on ...
Double duty: Meet the resellers who actually understand your business problem | #VMworld
The pipeline from a new technology to a buying customer can be fraught by a kind of language barrier, with technological jargon failing to translate to the business person. The middlemen or resellers have not always been helpful in implementing the technologies they sell. Some companies are now working to turn their ecosystem players into ...
Cloud a la carte: What if you could get all the cloud services you need from a storage vendor? | #VMworld
Specialty IT vendors are no doubt feeling the heat from the exploding cloud infrastructure world. After all, why would a business want to purchase a jumble of IT separately when they could get it all in one neat cloud package that is managed for them to boot? But an equally interesting question is, why would ...
The scalability imperative: How to keep business growth in the Digital Age from choking your IT | #VMworld
Now that, as experts forecast, every business must become an IT business, radical growth presents a double-edged sword. While great for your bottom line, it may present a quagmire to your IT team. How will existing systems handle the new demands, the data influx, the storage requirements? To avoid that “snake swallowing a basketball” feeling, ...
Want the fastest storage? Stop thinking media and start thinking architecture | #VMworld
If there is one area of IT where an objective opinion is needed, it might be storage. The disk versus flash battle is raging, and conflicting advice is not hard to come by. The flash guy says that no disk storage will ever be as fast as flash; then the disk company rep counters that ...
VMware Act II: NSX takes center stage while older tech matures behind the scenes | #VMworld
With the array of dazzling software hitting the market, it’s easy to get bored with older companies that deal in the nuts and bolts — until something burns out, malfunctions or allows a security breach. Then you remember that your flashy new application falls through the floor without rock-solid infrastructure. Luckily, not everyone is aspiring ...
