While the cloud technology evolution is leading to increased consolidation, it is also creating uncertainty over which model is best suited for the enterprise. Questions over public clouds, private clouds and how to move data between different environments are being debated in information technology on a weekly basis as the big players, such as Amazon Web ...

It might be time to tap the brakes on the common belief that there’s a wholesale mad dash to the cloud. Organizations are beginning to sound more interested in a combined on-premises and off-premises enterprise solution, according to Rick Gouin (pictured, right), chief technology officer at the Winslow Technology Group LLC. “I hear from a lot ...

Information technology managers at colleges and universities across the country often have to walk a fine line between long-tenured faculty who are reluctant to adopt new technologies and students who started using computers before they could even walk. Meeting the expectations of both groups is not easy, but at Boston University, the migration to cloud ...

Enterprise clouds are a whole lot more secure than the Internet they depend on, a reality that will become more obvious with the coming Internet of Things, says Oracle Corp. Chief Executive Mark Hurd. Hurd made the case for enterprise clouds, no doubt of the sort Oracle itself provides, Thursday evening during an interview at the Strategic ...

The difference between user demand and what information technology can deliver in the enterprise is holding back innovation, based on a 2017 study commissioned by Veeam Software Inc. and produced by the Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. The results, drawn from a survey of more than 1,000 IT decision makers, showed that two-thirds of enterprises are ...

The newly hired chief operating officer of Winslow Technology Group LLC, a provider of information technology solutions and consulting services, is in a position to hear from IT customers about what excites them. And he’s already heard enough to know that hyperconverged infrastructure is capturing the IT world’s attention. “What’s really exciting is the whole move to hyperconverged. ...

In the virtualized data center environment, there is seemingly no place for tape storage. But following Veeam Software Inc.’s “3-2-1 rule,” with three copies of data on two different kinds of media plus one stored offsite, Quantum has resurrected tape storage as a viable option for backup and recovery in the enterprise. “I think there’s ...

Many companies would probably admit they have not spent enough on information technology system upgrades. Refresh budgets often do not survive when confronted with the realities of cost management in today’s competitive business environment. Yet when one scientific research firm realized it needed to make the investment in IT necessary to meet the basic mission ...

It’s every data center manager’s worst nightmare. Two active directory controllers broke over the weekend, and now the information technology department at the Baloise Group faced the uncomfortable prospect that if a third controller failed, 1,500 branch personnel would be unable to do their critical work for an entire day. “This could have cost us half a ...

Dell’s privatization in 2013 and $67 billion merger with EMC has been a four-year epic, running longer than many television series. The newly branded company that emerged — Dell Technologies Inc. — now stores more than half of the mission-critical data in the world, according to Chief Executive Officer Michael Dell. And the company has ...