After more than 10 years of partnership with VMware Inc., Rackspace Inc. now runs one of the largest vSphere (cloud computing virtualization platform) footprints in the world. So when the managed service provider recently announced that its Rackspace Private Cloud was available and would be powered by VMware’s Cloud Foundation, the news was yet another ...

IBM Corp.’s recent announcement of Spectrum Protect Plus, protection software for cloud, data center or virtualized platforms, is more about data than it is about simplifying storage management. And the company is not shy about making sure its customers know that. “The C-suite hates storage, including the CIO [chief information officer], but they do love ...

Presented with the three options of simpler, cheaper or better, and only two can be selected, which makes the most sense? Ask any information technology manager who is trying to decide the best model among a bewildering array of storage choices for on-premises or off-premises data centers, and they are likely to ask for the ...

During what was largely viewed as a cattle stampede to the public cloud, enterprise information technology managers suddenly came to the realization that they might be leaving something important behind: their data. This sudden moment of clarity changed the “public cloud or bust” movement into something that analysts at Wikibon Inc. have termed an evolution ...

Red Hat Inc. introduced several new tools for its Ansible automation platform on Thursday that are designed to further the cause for automating huge enterprise information technology operations. Ansible bills itself as a simple “IT automation engine” that automates cloud provisioning, software configuration management, application deployment and other IT tasks. The new solutions are meant ...

With a wide range of technologies for the enterprise, Dell EMC is seeking to meet customer needs across the spectrum, from a basic “do-it-yourself” hardware infrastructure to the fully integrated, pre-configured VxRail hyperconverged appliance. The company’s intent is to help manage transitions in enterprise computing by offering products to customers that instill confidence rather than ...

The challenge many data center managers face today is how to modernize without breaking the budget. Recognizing that its customers have responded favorably to turnkey solutions at the systems level, using converged infrastructure, or CI, products — such as VxBlock — Dell EMC has continued to refine its Vscale architecture, which is designed to scale-out ...

If the hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, was a TV show, it would be airing at 8 p.m. on a Saturday night in all of the big markets, the prime viewing hour. The technology that consolidates compute, storage and networking into one system has gone mainstream in the enterprise as executives for Dell EMC have witnessed ...

Sometimes it’s really easy to have too much of good thing. In a hyperconverged, scaled-out backup system, there can be numerous motherboards, multiple persistence drives and hardware duplicates as far as the eye can see. That’s why Brian Biles (pictured), co-founder and chief executive officer of Datrium Inc., looked for a storage solution that could ...

An International Data Corp. research has tabbed the hyperconverged infrastructure, or HCI, market as the fastest-growing converged systems segment for the first quarter this year. Dell EMC and VMware Inc. are clearly intent of taking full advantage of that growth as evidenced by recent announcements during VMworld in Las Vegas, Nevada. Dell EMC will now ...