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Q&A: From data lake to Delta Lake: transitioning into the AI era
Progress in storage and networking over the last 10 years has enabled the business world to accumulate thousands of terabytes of data with the hopes of tracking patterns and extracting valuable information. While the storage part has gotten much easier, the extraction process has proven challenging come time to fish insights from the murky depths of the data lake. ...
Q&A: Atos combats ‘watermelon effect’ to transform the employee experience
According to a study from Gallup Inc., an astonishing 87% of employees are not fully engaged in their work. By seeing employees detach from work, some businesses are starting to focus on their engagement rather than on their productivity. To help sharpen end-user engagement and make employees happy, Atos SE, a digital transformation information technology ...
Q&A: Dell and VMware upgrade external storage for cloud-native workloads
The evolution of workloads is resulting in new data center infrastructure and design needs. Developers and operation teams are shifting strategies toward a cloud-native and hybrid-cloud application, which demands improved storage requirements. As such, Dell Technologies Inc. and VMware Inc. are strengthening external storage solutions, according to Caitlin Gordon (pictured, left), vice president of product marketing at ...
Q&A: Harel Insurance moves to multicloud for infrastructure-free environment
Multicloud adopters are seeing the value of undergoing a profound transformation in their digital model. They are leveraging multicloud solutions that help them accelerate and enhance their business impact. Harel Insurance Investments & Financial Services Ltd. is one recent multicloud adopter that is seeing the benefits. The company is leveraging the VMware Cloud Foundation on Dell EMC VxRail ...
Q&A: Leveraging the multicloud for proper data and recovery
Protecting large amounts of data is challenging for enterprises overseeing dozens of offices strewn across the United States, all trying to uploads hundreds of gigabytes at the same time. Such was the case for GEI Consultants Inc. The scientific consulting company had to redesign its entire disaster and recovery network. To do so, it leveraged Dell EMC’s ...
Q&A: From crypto to Universal Base Image, RHEL 8 lives for container tech
In the past five years alone, containers have evolved from a niche technology to a must-have platform for deploying cloud-based applications and services. This rapid growth is driving demand for specialized tools and microservices to optimize and secure containers across all the major cloud platforms. With open source at the center of modern software specialization, Red ...
Virtustream caught in the middle of VMware-Azure play, and that’s right where it wants to be
Sixteen years and two acquisitions later, VMware Inc. has been a key player in some of tech’s biggest deals to date. From EMC to Dell, the virtualization pioneer now finds itself contributing to Dell Technologies Inc.’s fully managed data center as a service, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. Unveiled at last week’s Dell Tech World, VMware Cloud on ...