A major selling point of innovative cloud infrastructure is limitless scalability. Ironically, once an organization hits mega scale, economics could send them hurtling back from advanced all-flash storage to more old-school methods. “The all-flash array movement is great for certain workloads,” said Erik Kaulberg (pictured, right), senior director of cloud solutions at Infinidat Inc. However, companies should think ...

Information technology professionals praying automation won’t take their jobs should be careful what they wish for. Sure, in the next few years $1.6 billion worth of nondifferentiated labor will disappear from on-premises data centers, according to the True Private Cloud report from Wikibon.com. But as automation eats up rote tasks, digital transformation and data-driven business models ...

A large majority of enterprises have rejected the dichotomy of an either/or, on-premises data center versus public cloud. Today, 85 percent embrace a hybrid or multicloud strategy, according to RightScale’s “2017 State of the Cloud Survey.” They are employing both public clouds and private clouds, including virtualized on-prem environments. This shift to multiple clouds is ...

VMware Inc. is setting an example for how a company rooted in on-premises data centers can branch into cloud. Partnerships with the likes of Amazon Web Services Inc., IBM Corp. and Google Cloud Platform are helping to rebrand its image. Which of these deals will actually transform VMware into a cloud staple going forward? Two ...

Data is the center of gravity in the modern digital enterprise. It also simply has gravity; in large quantities, it’s hard to move to and fro. That’s why the compute, via a virtual network, must be the mover and shaker in a multicloud environment, according to Pat Gelsinger (pictured), chief executive officer of VMware Inc. “We can ...

VMware Inc. has long leveraged a vast partner ecosystem to help bill itself as the common operating environment for many different technologies. The addition of two heavy hitters — Amazon Web Services Inc. and Google Cloud Platform — is rocking the boat for both partners and customers. “There is a lot of historical legacy, and ...

VMware Inc. is paving a path to public cloud through deals with Amazon Web Services Inc. and now Google Cloud Platform. Good for its customers; but will its many smaller partners fall by the wayside? “Public cloud was a dirty word at VMworld a couple of years ago — now we’re embracing it,” said Stu Miniman ...

Just when everyone thought VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas was all about the Amazon Web Services Inc. deal, Google Cloud Platform crashed the party. Today, it announced a partnership with VMware Inc. to bring Kubernetes container orchestration on-premises with Pivotal Container Service, known as PKS. Is this a developer’s dream come true or just VMware ...

Business is booming for public clouds, but 65 percent of workloads still live in corporate data centers. Dell Technologies Inc. wants to traverse both worlds by providing a multicloud solution. Can it, and its customers, have it all — or is it spreading itself too thin? “Cloud’s not a place; cloud’s a way of doing [information ...

When they hear the term “digital transformation,” many people think: “Throw hardware overboard like you’re on the Titanic and get into this life jacket called cloud.” It’s a “too long; didn’t read” note to a story they ought to read through. “The goal is not to get rid of hardware; the goal is to get ...