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R. Danes

R. Danes is a senior writer for theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s mobile livestreaming studio, who is based on the East Coast. Her fondness for old media and longform journalism converges with an interest in new media and digital content trends. Exploring digital disruption in the realm of publications, articles and writing led her to writing articles about digital disruption everywhere. Find R. Danes on Twitter @DanesRd.

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Source-based data protection blends in from apps to appliances

INFRA By R. DANES9 YEARS AGO

Private and public clouds added to on-premises data centers are breaking the infrastructure environment into pieces. Harried customers want their data protected wherever it lands, which is why some vendors are baking protection into a whole range of products. “We’re really seeing …

Data protection spot test could convert cloud holdouts

CLOUD By R. DANES9 YEARS AGO

Data protection is on fire these days. Businesses anxious about migrating to foreign, off-premises cloud environments are demanding innovation in backup and recovery. These newfangled services aren’t just for companies all-in on cloud; they can also be a test bed for the cold-footed. …

Serving the as-a-service economy with composable all-flash storage

INFRA By R. DANES9 YEARS AGO

Software providers face rising demand for as-a-service delivery models. Digital subscription is even cropping up in businesses — like Fender Musical Instruments Corp. — far from the software core. All of these companies now require infrastructure like storage to scale with customers’ whims. “They don’t …

The tech ‘fit’ debate: Universal tech in a couture IT world

WOMEN IN TECH By R. DANES9 YEARS AGO

Technology advancements may be too much of a good thing for business environments unequipped to assimilate them. The slow adoption of analytics tech, for example, is primarily due to cultural barriers for 62 percent of companies surveyed in a recent report from SAS Institute Inc. Another …

Curing on-premises-to-cloud cold feet with VMware

CLOUD By R. DANES9 YEARS AGO

Companies with cold feet about relocating on-premises applications to the public cloud may need a common denominator to warm them up. For on-prem-to-cloud specialist SkyTap Inc., the go-between is VMware Inc.’s virtual machine technology. “A lot of our customers have applications that …

Datrium’s cloud affinities could beat HCI to the hybrid punch

INFRA By R. DANES9 YEARS AGO

First hyperconverged infrastructure combined software-defined storage with commodity hardware for an on-premises “private cloud.” Now converged infrastructure startup Datrium Inc. wants to go further by mimicking public cloud in on-prem or hybrid environments. Datrium’s mission is “to give customers in this hybrid world a …

For price-to-performance at scale, all-flash storage can’t cut it, says Infinidat

INFRA By R. DANES9 YEARS AGO

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, …

Who’s driving? Assembling tech and talent for data-driven enterprise

BIG DATA By R. DANES9 YEARS AGO

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. …

Dell EMC, VMware rejuvenate and unify multicloud data protection

CLOUD By R. DANES9 YEARS AGO

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 …

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