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Dell EMC redesigns Isilon to store more using less space
With current storage trends in the enterprise, including all-flash and virtualization capabilities, there is an increasing demand for more performance and unconstrained scalability without compromising on enterprise features or protocols, according to Eric Seidman (pictured), senior manager of product marketing, Emerging Technologies Division, at Dell EMC. Plus businesses demand security and protection from their storage platforms. “We took ...
How software-defined storage helps legacy hardware, siloed data centers
Digital transformation is a phrase that has been kicked around quite a bit lately as more and more companies seek to fully modernize everything from their networks and data centers to compute and even storage arrays. Software-Defined Storage is using software to manage the data plane on any storage device or array on a given network, explained Narasimha ...
Red Hat’s Open Innovation Labs leverages culture, self-serve platforms
Around a year and a half ago, Red Hat Inc. was tapped by its strategic advisory board to create a program that would demonstrate Red Hat’s methods of software building and implementation. The resulting Open Innovation Labs program has since partnered with a total of 12 organizations worldwide, on two continents. The most promising results so far have shown ...
How the OpenShift.io toolset is making life easier for DevOps
One of the more exciting announcements at this year’s Red Hat Summit was Red Hat Inc.’s launch of a highly anticipated set of DevOps tools called OpenShift.io. The tools were created with Red Hat’s OpenShift environment in mind, and in addition to solving issues such as difficulties with toolset integration or the need to familiarize oneself with third-party files, such as ...
Dell EMC targets telecom market with OpenStack solutions for scaling applications
Dell’s acquisition of EMC may have jump-started the hardware titan’s enterprise cloud efforts, but it was open source development platforms that helped pave Dell’s path to customers in new markets, including telecommunications. Many of Dell’s customers were vocal about wanting some sort of open-source cloud platform on which to build those enterprise solutions, said Armughan Ahmad (pictured), senior ...
How did this health services company handle its shift to the cloud?
Health services and innovation company Optum Inc. recently found itself in the same position as many other companies trying to make the move to the cloud: Pondering what to do with its legacy assets. The company ended up turning to open source and a mix of solutions. “… We brought in Red Hat and OpenShift, [and] we’re ...
Does OpenStack have an advantage over proprietary cloud solutions?
The intent behind Rackspace Inc. and NASA’s OpenStack project was to build a community around the first fully open-source cloud platform towards the creation of cloud infrastructure. At the time in 2010, development resources were split between both public and private cloud solutions, pitting OpenStack against market giants like Amazon Web Services with their own proprietary ...
Data streams and AI bridge expectations and ads
Less than a decade ago, sales and marketing people were using the tried and true methods for talking with their customers. Telephone, email and standalone chat programs, such as ICQ or Yahoo Messenger, were marketing industry standards. And while those methods are still in use today, the number of available communication channels between customers and sales and ...
The cloud-ready mentality is transforming organizations
The digital revolution in marketing is here. As technology continues to march forward at an ever-increasing pace, many companies’ sales and marketing organizations are realizing that they must embrace new technology and ideas in order to compete. In fact, customers are looking to undergo a complete overhaul of not only their tech, but their process and ...
The modern marketplace: Why too much data is never enough
A prophetic conversation happened a year ago at last year’s Oracle Modern Marketing Experience event, when theCUBE co-host John Furrier (@furrier) and Ron Corbisier (pictured), chief executive officer at Relationship One, examined the economic impact of data. Rapid access to seemingly boundless stores of digital information is the focus of the marketing industry right now, and it will ...