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Modestly peopled information technology teams are facing growing demands from their organizations for advanced performance. How do they deliver modern applications and all-around excellence with hands-on deck steadily disappearing? One way might be through hyperconverged infrastructure that takes up less space physically …
Squeezing Docker, Kubernetes, multicloud from on-prem HCI
There’s a popular impression that on-premises hardware must necessarily snail behind public cloud technology. However, some organizations are leveraging the latest hyperconverged infrastructure (combining commodity hardware with a software layer) to run trend-setting software like Docker Inc. containers (a virtualized method for …
Will real automation please stand up? Half-baked vs. full-circle auto tech
In the evolving world of set-it-and-forget it information technology, there’s automation, and then there’s automation. Plenty of vendors claiming their technologies automate away labor are a tad deceptive; they may automate the beginning stage of a task, only to punt the ensuing …
White House history dusts itself off with interactive-tour app
The words White House Historical Association probably don’t bring bleeding-edge technology to mind. Mahogany shelves lined with dusty hardbound books seem more likely than entertaining apps and “gamefied” online experiences. But through partnering with Amazon Web Services Inc., the association is out to …
Visibility tools bring hybrid-cloud IT blur into focus
Managing a hybrid cloud environment with applications on-premises and in public cloud is a handful; throw in rapidly evolving development and operations tools and methods, and a pretty confusing maze emerges for information technology personnel to navigate. This is the muddle public-sector …
AWS helps bring ‘cloud power’ to the people
Cloud infrastructure is making progress through the public sector, having won some extremely security-conscious customers, like the Central Intelligence Agency. Much smaller nonprofit organizations are also finding out what cloud infrastructure can do for them. A program that makes cloud “grants” is …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …