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Veeam’s anti-lock-in and on-the-fly for fickle hybrid customers
Today, companies are up in the air about practically everything in information technology. They want to run on-premises, in public cloud, and in private cloud. Innovative new technologies tantalize them, and they change their minds as new products hit the market at a rapid pace. How does a vendor serve this uncertain, constantly shifting market? ...
How a hybrid-cloud MSP meets messy storage demands
Customers love all the choices of public cloud computing, but hate having to sort through, combine, and implement them for specific business goals. This has refreshed market opportunities for managed service providers. Some now help businesses understand and implement public cloud solutions, as well as provide their own unique services. They have to cover more ...
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Bitnami aims to make open source so easy, enterprises can do it
Many companies no doubt envy the all open-source elite — companies that chucked proprietary software in favor innovative, rapidly upgraded operating system technologies. But they don’t envy the work of the information technology personnel that must run it day-in-day-out. Combining the perfect mix of OS software for production in enterprises is still a pretty messy ...
Workers get stuff done with custom AI/RPA micro apps
The democratization of artificial intelligence and machine learning is transforming information technology. Developers and operations teams can access intelligent tools to make sense of vast data sets and troubleshoot issues. Now AI and ML are trickling down to regular business people. Intelligent experience technology is putting AI and ML in laymen’s hands. It is enabling ...
Next-gen data backup makes a play for multicloud market
What is with data backup and protection these days? The whole space is having an identity crises. Suddenly, “backup” is a bad word — it must be “data management” or “multicloud data storage fabric” or it’s passe. Should companies throw out their trusted data backup and go buy something with new buzz terms on the ...
Million-dollar millisecond: Lowering life-or-death latency in DX
Look at the attention spans of digital consumers today. They’ve shrunk to the point where 53% of mobile site visitors leave a page that takes longer than three seconds to load; a 100-millisecond delay in website load time can cut conversion rates by 7%. When milliseconds of latency can cost companies customers, they’d better have anything ...
Is bare Kubernetes still too messy for enterprises?
Kubernetes is touted as a computing cure-all, fixing up multicloud networking to data mobility. The open-source platform for orchestrating containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) may or may not be the panacea it’s hyped up to be. What is certain is that user-ready Kubernetes isn’t as easy as it sounds, so customers should shop carefully ...
Good tech: The push for cleaner, greener technology
“Tech for good” is trending these days. Amazon Web Services Inc. and other technology companies are increasingly combining tech and social initiatives. There is also “good tech” — technology built with sustainability and environmental concerns in mind. Among the companies investing in environmentally conscious tech are VMware Inc. It’s cleaning up after itself, reducing its ...
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Weighing cloud-native hysteria versus the hybrid real world
It’s now a status symbol for a startup to be born in cloud. Established enterprises feel they must shift applications to cloud computing to catch up and modernize. But the maturation of cloud-native tech is teaching us that on-premises data centers aren’t prisons, so we can cool down and pick our battles. We’ve seen a ...
Can data-driven companies handle regulatory wrench flying at them?
Big data and artificial intelligence are on a collision course with new privacy and security regulations. The software as a service model many companies adopt as they go digital demands fresh, easily accessed data. Are new laws going to stymie data-driven innovation for these companies? Can they deflect the regulatory wrench flying their way? Companies ...
