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Is it time to stop making excuses and go hyper-converged? | #VMworld
IT vendors are coming out with simpler, more user-friendly infrastructure solutions everyday. But despite its occasional hiccups, your trusty old infrastructure is still easier to manage than the implementation of some fancy new system — right? Wrong, according to some professionals who say that chucking their old, high-maintenance systems in favor of new hyper-converged infrastructure ...
Disk, flash and NVMe: Three things you didn’t know about three storage types | #VMworld
Ever since flash took the storage world by storm, people have been watching this space as a hotbed of disruption. There has been all sorts of speculation about what technology will jump out next and overtake flash — all this while disks are still blissfully spinning on racks all over the world. Let’s have some ...
How one company finally found its storage unicorn | #VMworld
The modern enterprise wants to collect data, as much data as possible. Where large data stores used to be seen as something you needed to dispose of, in this new era of Big Data value, companies are seeing data as an asset. The problem with all this is you need a place to store that ...
Will all your cloud efforts come to naught without best-in-class storage? | #VMworld
The be-all and end-all product or service that does everything at the click of a button seems to be the Holy Grail for enterprises these days. “Converged” is a hot term; “hyper-converged” is hotter. Did someone say, “Turnkey?” Well, there are some folks in the industry who have bad news for instant gratification seekers: One-size-fits-all ...
How virtualized testing helped this company enter the Digital Age painlessly | #VMworld
Ask companies who lag behind the digital transformation the reason for their reluctance, and they might tell you that cost is a factor. They don’t want to invest in new systems, technologies and services. But some say this is a woefully shortsighted view. Entering the Digital Age will not only improve performance and productivity in ...
Get ready for big rewards and big challenges from the multi-cloud world | #VMworld
Just when you’re getting used to the cloud, here come clouds — plural — as in multiple clouds, inter-cloud, cross-cloud. The reality is that different data, different workloads and different applications will likely do better in different clouds that serve unique needs. But these are early days for the multi-cloud environment, and there will be challenges ...
Getting to the bottom of it: Your cloud is only as good as your infrastructure | #VMworld
Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, inter-cloud, cross-cloud. Another day, another new cloud promising to solve all your business problems. But enterprises need to understand that the cloud has not changed the rules about a solid infrastructure foundation. According to some IT professionals, if you have rinky-dink infrastructure, the fanciest cloud in the world isn’t ...
How do you get more from the path to cloud than a headache? | #VMworld
As heavily touted as the benefits may be, migrating to the cloud is viewed as a perilous trek that must be endlessly prepared for and fretted over. But if you pick the right solutions provider, you may not only get a painless transition — you could start reaping benefits right away. Peter Cutts, VP of Cloud ...
To nerd-knob or not to nerd-knob? Can you afford to leave the twiddling to vendors? | #VMworld
Perhaps the two most common sentiments you hear in IT right now are that customers want choice and that customers want turnkey. And yet those two seem to be at odds with each other. In order to understand the right balance for your business, you need to look at your staff, your resources and your ...
Is high-speed storage class memory too much of a good thing for data applications? | #VMworld
Lightening fast memory and storage systems have been a boon to data applications. Retrieval and use of data at ridiculously high speeds allows insights to be arrived at and acted on in time to create totally new experiences for end users. But there is a catch: Some of these technologies are actually getting too fast ...
