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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …