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Hyperconverged tech enables real-time control of robotics
The explosion of Internet of Things-connected devices is pushing the need for high-performance computing farther out onto the edge and away from centralized data centers. The backbone of edge computing is hyperconverged infrastructure, and Nutanix Inc. is often thought of as the pioneer of HCI. Nicolaus Radford, co-founder and chief technology officer at Houston Mechatronics ...
Nutanix’s Calm tackles management of multicloud environments
As cloud technology matures, services and applications become vastly more simple to consume and deploy. At the heart of this trend is the notion of a cloud operating system upon which these applications are controlled and managed. Aaditya Sood (pictured, right), senior director of engineering and products at Nutanix Inc., described how his recently acquired company ...
Lenovo, Nutanix team-up advances hyperconverged infrastructure
The partnership between Lenovo Group Ltd. and Nutanix Inc. has been in the works for more than two years. Today, both companies are seeing business growth around their jointly engineered solutions, according to Kirk Skaugen, president of the data center group at Lenovo, who commented on how the two companies are coming together. “With Nutanix we’re tightly ...
Nutanix should play long game in short-sighted public market, says adviser
Taking a company public can do wonders in terms cashflow and publicity, but it also presents a new set of challenges for its growth strategy. Along these lines, Nutanix Inc.’s recent IPO has some customers and industry analysts questioning its ability to continue to innovate. Virginia Gambale (pictured), managing partner at Azimuth Partners LLC, a strategic advisory firm, ...
Municipal CIO guarantees technology up-time during disasters
While advancements in technology can play a critical role in the daily operations within an enterprise, these breakthroughs very often go unnoticed in the general public. For technology leaders in public office, this requires a careful balance between raising awareness for technology without drawing too much attention to their challenges, especially tech challenges encountered during a ...
Moving to hyperconverged infrastructure reduced this company’s need to juggle IT resources
As companies continue to migrate legacy infrastructure to the cloud, an increasing number of applications are seeing tangible value in moving to hyperconverged infrastructure. This is particularly true in mission-critical use cases, such as payment handling where security requirements do allow for a purely public cloud approach. Mike Day (pictured), chief executive officer of PXP Solutions ...
Common tech underlies Veeam, Pure Storage team-up for full data snapshots
As more and more partnerships between companies form around complementary technologies, customers benefit from a simplified user experience. The synergy between Veeam Software Inc. and Pure Storage Inc. extends beyond the technical solutions into market strategy and business models, according to Rajiev Rajavasireddy (pictured, right), vice president of solutions Pure Storage. “We have a direct sales ...
Modernizing data infrastructure: Hortonworks and Syncsort partner to unlock legacy system data
It’s a year and a half into the partnership between Hortonworks Inc. and Syncsort Inc. that is centered around modernizing legacy data stores and infrastructure. The results so far? The synergy between Syncsort’s high-performance data integration and Hortonworks’ modern data architecture solutions is creating a seamless experience for their common customers, according to Chief Technology Officers ...
Coopetition heats up: IBM-Hortonworks partnership tackles machine learning, data governance
As more companies shift their roadmaps to support the big data and cloud computing trends, industry leaders naturally arise based on specializations and core competencies. As these industry leaders continue to develop, companies are beginning to view each other as strategic partners that complement each other instead of competitors. The latest of these landmark partnerships ...
Lenovo’s ‘agile’ strategy to innovate product offerings
Traditionally legacy information technology providers have been hard-pressed to keep up with the pace of innovation of cloud computing and the demands of the industry. These companies are being forced to think differently if they intend of surviving the shifting paradigm. Lenovo Group Ltd. is one company doing exactly that with its new ThinkSystem server product ...