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Will VMware eat its young? How a mature company withstands disruption | #VMworld
Another VMworld event has wrapped, and word on the street is that, while it is still the conference of the infrastructure industry, this year there was nothing especially sexy about it. Maybe we have just gotten used to an atmosphere of flashy disruptors threatening to shift the sands, so now the established is associated with the ...
Could your software be working twice as hard for you? | #VMworld
With a new vendor trying to sell a software service any given day, it’s getting difficult for companies to know what is worth it and what is just a gimmick. Even taking stock of the software they already have can raise more questions than it answers; you sure are paying for that, but are you using ...
How one company organized its growing data centers | #VMworld
“Digital transformation” can seem like a big, scary term to non-IT companies that are nonetheless compelled to utilize IT to stay relevant. Some may have memories of spending weeks and months setting up data centers, and the constant maintenance needed to keep them running. But times have changed, and IT companies are offering customers easy ...
You’re not the only one trying to monetize your data. How can you protect it? | #SeizeTheData
As the cloud infrastructure revolution continues, it brings with it both rewards and challenges. While some segments in enterprise are able to adjust with minimal strain, some require considerable tweaking, and still others are undergoing a total paradigm shift. Security and threat detection is an area where the old virus detection and firewalls are failing ...
Is your brain doing a job your software can do? Automate it | #VMworld
DevOps, containers and other developments have made it an exciting time to be a developer. The easy, agile, software-defined tools available today allow them to spin up a world of applications limited only by imagination. Unfortunately, many companies still waste their developers’ time and talent bogging them down with infrastructure plumbing. Suppose the plumbing could all ...
What is a firewall good for in the virtualized, containerized, intercloud nebula? | #VMworld
This new software-defined, cloud-native infrastructure that most in the technology industry can’t stop raving about isn’t all champagne and confetti for one particular group of IT pros: security teams. They are expected to evolve breach and threat detection at the pace of innovation, which is pretty break-neck these days. Many are asking, what good is ...
Small questions, Big Data: How data value is created in the real world | #SeizeTheData
For all the Big Data hullabaloo, the end goal for most invested businesses is actually quite simple. Just answer this question,”How do we sell more to our customers?” But between here and there is a vast data lake, and traversing it can seem daunting. You’ll be relieved to know that starting small isn’t just OK — some ...
The open source backlash is here. Is HPE’s Big Data foray the answer? | #SeizeTheData
Open source Big Data tools are undoubtedly seen as fresher, hotter and more capable than proprietary resources, but companies are growing tired of sifting through open source for the magic combination that will make their data profitable. Some are starting to miss the stewardship of the “proprietary dinosaur,” yet they can’t afford to miss out ...
Agility is the new stability: What to do with storage in cloud/on-prem limbo | #VMworld
So a guy from Company X just said that all-cloud is the future of IT, and there’s no escaping it. Meanwhile, someone from Company Y said that on-prem is still necessary for maximum security. And a developer from Company Z stated once and for all that hybrid cloud will be the only practical solution for ...
The people’s conference? HPE Big Data Conference preview | #GuestOfTheWeek
HPE’s Big Data Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, begins on August 29. Mercifully sparing attendees marketing fluff, it will be a use-case-focused conference from a company with a presence in Big Data that may surprise you. Since HPE acquired Vertica in 2011, it has built on its analytics capacities to offer data solutions that couple HPE’s core competencies ...
