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Can skeptics be swayed by Dell EMC’s software-defined testing?
Server-agnostic, software-defined storage sounds like a breeze compared to traditional, clunky arrays; perhaps this is why some might feel it’s too good to be true. “I think the first hurdle we need to pass is just the challenge for most industry veterans in particular to make the shift from the built-like-a-tank, traditional storage arrays — ...
Nutanix calls shotgun on multicloud with control pane, but is it a false start?
Nutanix Inc. is a big fish in the hyperconverged infrastructure market, but it’s now veering into multicloud — a much larger pond than HCI. Can it float there? Nutanix tops revenue (or trails a hair behind Dell EMC, as one report shows) in HCI that packs hardware basics and integrated software in one appliance. And while Nutanix’s revenue has ...
More to HCI than meets the eye? Compressed differentiation in storage explained
Hyperconverged Infrastructure as the linchpin of hybrid cloud? Sounds far-fetched to some, but Julia Palmer (pictured), director of research at Gartner Inc., says there’s often more to HCI appliances than meets the eye. “I don’t think it’s there today, but I think it has great potential,” Palmer told Dave Vellante (@dvellante) and Stu Miniman (@stu), co-hosts of theCUBE, ...
Nutanix and Google meet in the middle in cloud-on-prem market battle
Nutanix Inc. announced its new partnership with Google Cloud this week in the nick of time for the Nutanix .NEXT day one keynote in Washington, D.C., where speakers aptly zeroed in on multi-cloud. Multi-cloud and cloud in general are actually means to an end, not ends in themselves, Nutanix Chief Executive Officer and Chairman Dheeraj Pandey (pictured, left), told ...
Can Google team-up give Nutanix cloud cred?
With on-premises infrastructure losing more ground to cloud every day, the “cloud washing” on the rise at on-prem vendors is not surprising. Is it all clever marketing to save their necks? Or are some of them selling bona fide private cloud? One company in this category is Nutanix Inc. A rare on-prem bird, it’s growing ...
Personal right or socialist agenda? Data experts get candid in sizzling GDPR debate
Data is said to be the new oil, owing to its enormous potential value, but it is unlike a typical resource in at least two outstanding ways that could keep its value locked away: One, few who possess it understand how to extract or account for its supposed value; and two, it doesn’t lawfully belong ...
A storage array did that? A bottom-up transformation story
Publicly funded and short-staffed, the Mississippi Community College Board needed to consolidate and cut costs. Its data warehouse’s storage arrays turned out to be the best place to start. “Our current system was coming up for renewal, and the renewal itself was triple what it was a year before,” said Ray Smith (pictured), assistant executive ...
IBM driven by startup envy, but analysts say that’s actually a good thing
The IBM Fast Track Your Data event in Munich this year might have been more aptly named: “Drive your data at the speed limit, and make sure to brake at yellow lights.” And this is not simply alluding to the General Data Protection Regulation panel at the conference. The three tracks at the conference were data governance; ...
How this IT team updated its stack to meet tough healthcare standards
When executives at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, decided to upgrade the college’s storage last year, they sifted through several vendors to find one with up-to-the-minute technology that fit the school’s on-premise application needs. “We wanted something that was a new and different approach to storage; it wasn’t just layering your legacy [operating system] ...
Can zero-downtime storage updates cure major healthcare IT snafus?
Nobody likes system updates, mostly because the downtime interrupts business. This rings especially true in healthcare, where patients can’t schedule a break from being sick. “Because we deal with people’s lives, we have to be careful about when we do updates. We’ve got to be cognizant of, you know, is the emergency room full, things ...
