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IT becoming like modern car industry, says Fujitsu executive
The modern landscape of information technology is changing rapidly, and computing services provider Fujitsu Ltd. is comparing that landscape to the way car companies are changing the way they make cars for customers. “When I was young … I bought a car, and then I started to integrate different things: a stereo, speaker systems, whatsoever kind ...
Focus Group and Spotlight initiatives build SAP communities worldwide
Building a strong global community around data management and tools, SAP SE has seen huge success through its overall SAP online community. But SAP wanted to take that further by building smaller communities within SAP that would focus around its different offerings, such as SAP HANA, the company’s in-memory, column-oriented, relational database management system. So how has ...
‘Power of the portfolio’: Dell EMC merger grows HCI marketplace
Dell EMC recently declared success on its mission to accelerate its hyperconverged infrastructure portfolio growth. It’s now the number one HCI provider in the market. “The obvious thing that everybody sees is the power of the portfolio that we now have,” said Chad Dunn (pictured, left), vice president of product management and marketing at Dell EMC. “So having the power ...
Inside the Dell EMC/Microsoft team-up for Azure Stack hybrid cloud services
Microsoft Corp. and Dell Technologies Inc. have been developing a collaborative cloud offering through Azure, and they’ve recently begun to unroll their new Azure Stack, which is a hybrid cloud offering for both cloud and on-premises deployments. As Dell EMC tells it, partnering with Microsoft for this rollout was easy. “From a Dell EMC perspective, it’s a ...
IBM applies three-tiered approach to AI, deep learning computing systems
As artificial intelligence and deep learning revolutionize the computing market, these new technologies require very complex and high-performance computing systems. So what are technology companies doing to meet these complex demands? IBM Corp. has stepped up to the challenge by creating a three-tiered approach. “IBM saw the opportunity and realized that we really need to ...
Navel gazing serves IBM well for digital transformation best practices
While the urge to be data driven is reaching a fever pitch in the modern world of business, the actual implementation of this concept is usually fraught with the challenges of reworked computing architectures and evolving corporate cultures. But those computing giants delivering the infrastructure for data-first business such as IBM are also looking to pave the way through ...
How AI can return balance to customer relations
It used to be that popular brands and the companies behind them had all the marketing power. But thanks to e-commerce and user-driven social networks, that power has shifted to the consumer. So how is artificial intelligence bringing a little power balance back between companies and consumers in the age of the customer? And what does this mean for ...
Researchers uncover why IT is more interested in resiliency than disaster recovery
From 2017 to 2018, there was a significant rise of about 30 to 35 percent in customer inquiries about resilience at the information technology research and advisory firm Gartner Inc. So what has made this topic so important to customers who might not have even heard of “IT resiliency” a few years ago? There are ...
Building ‘resilient IT’ crucial for long-term digital transformations
As enterprises and organizations continue to embrace the digital transformation where data is driving business decisions and reworking corporate culture, one key concept is important to think through — the resiliency of information technology and the implications long term of building flexible, scalable technology that can continue to grow and expand with company needs. “If ...
Catching on: hyperconverged infrastructure offers more flexibility for businesses
As converged infrastructure and hyperconverged infrastructure become more and more important to companies and organizations, Dell EMC has launched its Ready Stack to ensure that it captures this growing desire. “Ready Stack is a way to address a market that we haven’t gone after directly, which is the build systems,” said Vince Affatati (pictured, left), global vice president ...