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Secularizing ‘priesthood of analytics’ for plain-clothes business people
Data analytics projects are deflating at a rate of 85 percent, according to some analysts. The culprit is not likely a lack of software tools — the market is brimming with them. Rather, it’s cultural hiccups to blame. One such obstacle is the low degree of transparency and trust in data analytics across entire organizations. ...
Automation abridges the bridge to Authority to Operate in cloud
Cloud computing has picked up major steam in the public sector since the Central Intelligence Agency moved to Amazon Web Services Inc. in 2014. While speed and efficiency of provisioning cloud infrastructure can take huge chunks of time and labor out of public sector operations, the formal approval to work with government agencies called Authority to Operate, or ATO, ...
Can a single vendor do it all for digitally transforming companies?
Since Dell Inc. merged with EMC Corp. to become Dell EMC, the company has embarked on deep silo searching to bring its portfolio together into more cohesive solutions. The multitude of product offerings, acquisitions, etc., was a bit of a mess for its channel community and customers to dig through. Can it now become a ...
Taking the fear out of cloud with bite-size, hybrid offerings
There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and this applies to computing’s on-premises-to-cloud migration as much as anything else. Companies can whittle down the fear factor of moving data and applications to cloud with a try-and-see approach rather than a go-for-broke method, because in today’s ecosystem creative technology partnerships can let customers start small ...
Docker doctors container headaches with easy buttons, single pane of glass
It has been said that every company must become a software company to survive in the future. Companies making the transition often find themselves juggling armfuls of brain-teasing new tech from a slew of vendors. Is there anywhere they can turn for fully baked solutions that don’t have countless pieces to assemble? “Part of the value of ...
Cisco shows off new tricks with programmable network
The network is ever the bottleneck in information technology. Silicon Valley has waited around for years as rumors of an open, programmable network made the rounds. Now networking startups are actually manifesting it. But could legacy networking provider Cisco Systems Inc. actually deliver the best-in-class programmable network? “This is a tell sign that the programmable ...
Microsoft Azure gives SAP the cloud-agility treatment
What’s the point of cloud computing? Anybody who thinks it’s purely about consumption-based pricing for the information technology department to save money is behind the curve. Cloud is really about get-up-and-go agility that enables businesses to innovate on the fly. Microsoft Corp. and SAP SE have struck up a partnership that aims to enable such ...
Can SAP pull its legacy weight into the era of intelligent enterprise?
SAP SE isn’t making any bones about its ambition to grow even bigger than it already is. The enterprise software maker has a very bulky collection of products at a time when simplified information technology is all the rage. Can it reshape its message for the instant-gratification crowd? “SAP wants to be one of the top 10 world’s ...
NetApp plays the digital transformation field with customer-peers
Digital transformation is about doing business around data, that much is established. But not a whole lot is clear about how to actually make the leap from the idea of data-driven business to the reality. Would working with a technology company in the thick of its own transformation be a wise move for confused customers? ...
NetApp spikes SAP with data management in co-innovation partnership
Companies are sifting through a barrel full of choices about infrastructure, development, operations and overall information technology modernization nowadays. Keeping the logistics and analytics requirements of data top of mind might help them pick the right cloud, hybrid cloud, multicloud, private cloud, what-have-you. Customers are coming up with all kinds of different plans for modernizing ...
