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Questioning “three-clicks-to-nirvana” data-protection startups
Many companies are in the dark about data protection. Some assume it’s part and parcel with their cloud infrastructure — and then a disaster prompts a rude awakening. Startups are cropping up to meet the need for data protection across clouds, but their “three-clicks to-nirvana” spiel is suspect, according to Jyothi Swaroop (pictured), vice president of global ...
Multicloud, data-serviced, container-capable — it’s not your daddy’s HCI
What EMC’s president of converged platforms and solutions, Chad Sakac, once described as a niche virtual desktop infrastructure solution has traveled a long way. A swelling number of companies are coming to see hyperconverged infrastructure as the linchpin in their hybrid cloud strategy. “We started with virtualizing compute and storage together on servers, but we’re seeing ...
Red Hat brings controlled open-source chaos to multicloud
For all the buzz around open-source technologies, they can be a hot mess for enterprises to actually put into production. Red Hat Inc. stands out in the industry for its success in profitably slinging open source to customers in managed packages. Can the hatter bring multicloud under its roof and make it doable for enterprises ...
Nonprofit Mercy Ships stretches donor dollars with HCI
Many organizations with space constraints have opted for turn-key hyperconverged infrastructure appliances. A nonprofit organization with tricky space and logistics issues and a duty to stretch donor dollars must get a wallop of performance out of its information technology stack. Just ask Mercy Ships what it’s like being a maritime hospital staffed by volunteers. “As ...
NetApp wants to make hybrid HCI Amazon-easy
Weaving infrastructure loci — core, cloud and edge — together is crucial if multicloud is going to mean more than a bunch of stuff in silos dotting the globe. It allows companies to view their data in its entirety and allows them to deploy to the different infrastructure types at their own pace without having ...
Micron pumps up IT systems with lightning-speed NVDIMM
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, modern applications — these aren’t terms that spring to mind when someone mentions hoary hardware vendors. Perhaps they should be, since software doesn’t run on thin air; its performance has everything to do with underlying hardware. This is what Micron Technology Inc. is trying to communicate to customers as it tweaks ...
In multicloud muddle, vendors must partner for greater good
Technology partnerships have many faces. Some are rightly derided as “optical deals” or “Barney deals,” and others basically boil down to reselling. With multicloud causing serious migraines, tech partners vying to win customers had better serve up stronger medicine. The solutions they bring to market must come with pieces glued together and the value-add spelled ...
VMware’s pushing to be the choice platform for cloud service providers
While some are pondering how VMware Inc. is going to stay competitive with so many workloads moving to public cloud, the company is busy making inroads to private cloud and cloud-service vendors. It is working to enable enterprises to build their own clouds on-premises and give cloud-service providers the raw materials they need to deliver ...
VMware service provider automates away hybrid migration headaches
Service providers are great assists in a company’s overall cloud strategy — but at some point, companies may acquire more than they can keep a grasp on. To earn their keep, service providers ought to be automating and managing complex migration and hybrid tasks on customers’ behalf. “This whole cloud operations is becoming a major ...
Dynamic networking juices business value from hybrid, edge
On-premises data centers, private and public clouds, software as a service applications, microservices, internet of things edge devices — there are so many parts to the modern information technology universe. How is a single company to get them all working together to juice out desired business outcomes? According to VMware Inc., it’s pretty much hopeless ...
