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It’s time to ditch those licensing fees and move to the next level of cloud
As companies become comfortable operating in the cloud, the model evolves from “lift and shift” triage to a more nuanced strategy that looks at maximizing operational simplicity and return on investment. “What we’re starting to see around this modernization move is, ‘I want to start to utilize those higher-level services from [Amazon Web Services] and ...
From monolithic to cloud with zero disruption: A use-case example for legacy financial services transformation
Transforming the monolithic architecture of a traditional financial services enterprise is a mammoth project. Not only does it have to be done right, but it also has to be done invisibly without any disruption to the day-to-day operations of the company. “It has fundamental implications to people in their daily lives,” said Niranjan Ramsunder (pictured, ...
File storage could be as big on the Amazon cloud as S3, says NetApp CTO
With all the news happening at re:Invent this year, it was easy to miss that NetApp Inc. won Amazon Web Service Inc.’s Independent Software Vendor Design Partner of the Year award for Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. The award comes close on the heels of the launch of Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP. It took two years ...
VMware puts focus on developer experience with Tanzu Application Platform
As the wave of modernization moves across the business landscape, it is changing how software is developed. The discrete stages of the original development lifecycle have been replaced by constant development and integration. “Modern apps to me are inherently iterative and inherently scalable and amenable to change,” said James Watters (pictured), chief technology officer of ...
VMware-AWS partnership helps orgs follow the smartest path to cloud
Application modernization is heading the agenda around boardroom tables across the globe. The stakes are high, with successful digitization drawing a clear line between market winners and losers. But the path to cloud is seldom clear. And playing it safe, many companies have chosen to leave the most important, mission-critical applications to last. “Now they’re ...
Hybrid poster child Dropbox reveals the TCO benefits of choosing AMD-based EC2 instances
Dropbox Inc. was the first widely adopted cloud collaboration platform, freeing files from the confines of the network to be shared across the cloud. It also broke ahead of the pack in choosing a hybrid cloud model from its inception. “Dropbox has always been hybrid,” said Ali Zafar (pictured), senior director of platform strategy and ...
Dremio predicts 2022 will be the year open data architectures replace the data warehouse
Data warehouses were designed in the days when closed and proprietary was the right choice for data storage. But the cloud era requires a less cumbersome, open technology that can cope with real-time streaming access. “There’s so much new data, so many new use cases and every company wants to be data-driven,” said Tomer Shiran ...
VMware Carbon Black cuts cloud bill by 30% after migrating to AMD-powered EC2 instances
Migrating to the cloud brings huge benefits to any company. But cloud usage comes at a cost, and optimizing spend to get maximum performance is a constant balancing act. So when Michael D’Aniello (pictured), platform architect for VMware Carbon Black at VMware Inc., cut 30% from cloud spend by migrating from Intel to AMD-based EC2 ...
CrowdStrike unveils new service integrations for Falcon unified security platform
By now, everyone knows that cybercrime is on the rise. Attacks are a “when, not if” proposition for companies, as misconfigurations in cloud architectures and employee lapses open gateways for sophisticated criminals to exploit. “An adversary is able to enter a network and move laterally into that network within one hour and 32 minutes,” said Jessica ...
AWS, Micro Focus partnership focused on customer-centric innovation
Partnerships are a key feature of the digital business era. Going it alone just isn’t a wise option for digital transformation, and stronger, more resilient strategies are built through collaboration. This was particularly important during the pandemic, when companies were forced to pivot to cloud operations while simultaneously running their business under the stressful conditions ...