Progress toward a more sustainable world can start with data. According to data from the United Nations, UN Secretariat staff took 100,000 trips in 2017. While the global pandemic has presumably brought that number down significantly since, the nature of the UN’s charter demands a significant amount of international transit, and this can take its ...

Business analytics companies such as QlikTech International AB are currently engaged in an extensive dialogue with customers around data modernization. It is a conversation about old versus new and what the future holds for how data will be used in the modern enterprise. More often than not, the conversation Qlik is having with its customers ...

Firmware security is the Achilles’ heel of IT infrastructure. An organization can spend huge amounts of money on sophisticated security solutions, but if firmware is breached, threat actors can take control of a machine and bypass even the most stringent protections. This issue led the U.S. government to assess IT supply chain vulnerabilities and release a ...

The amount of data being generated each year on a global basis demands an agile, intelligent approach to infrastructure in order to manage it. During the March 30 “Data-Driven Begins With Intelligent Infrastructure” event, industry analysts and Hitachi Vantara executives and partners held a real-world discussion on leading trends for infrastructure modernization. They also analyzed ...

The massive adoption of Kubernetes as a key solution for enterprise computing makes it inevitable that as new technologies come on the horizon, the container orchestration tool will be involved in some way. Emerging tech solutions such as edge computing and the AI-based ChatGPT provide two prime examples of where Kubernetes will undoubtedly play an ...

Enterprises are on a mission to become data-driven, however, many organizations continue to struggle with data infrastructure, seeking the right balance to achieve objectives for security, sustainability and agility. Hitachi Vantara LLC has been working with customers and partners to streamline the transition to a data-driven, intelligent infrastructure. The company is helping enterprises build for ...

The tech industry has a growing power usage and environmental impact problem. Between the rise of cloud and compute-intensive applications such as cryptomining and artificial intelligence, power demand has expanded at an alarming rate. The Bitcoin network uses approximately the same amount of energy that Washington State does yearly. Mark Papermaster, chief technology officer for ...

Kubernetes’ place in the essential toolkit for enterprise IT has been well-established. What may be less widely known is that the container orchestration technology is now surrounded by an entire ecosystem of management tools. These include capabilities for cost optimization, pre-configured development environments, command line packages and cluster management. There’s a lot involved, and a ...

Kubernetes and containers have driven the transformation of applications to cloud-native platforms, yet they have carried a great deal of complexity along the way. This has led to the rise of out-of-the-box solutions designed to let companies focus on key goals instead of the computerized pipes that run the business. One company that has built ...

Today’s businesses are under constant pressure to drive greater value for customers, shareholders and employees, and this inevitably requires an ability to access, share and manage data. Information must be available all the time, every time. This demands an agile, intelligent approach to data infrastructure, which often makes the difference between success and failure in ...