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Q&A: AI, machine learning help UK public sector streamline services
Moving to the cloud can be beneficial for most agencies and industries, but it can also be challenging. Amazon Web Services Inc. is all too familiar with both the benefits and challenges associated with moving to a cloud-based platform. For the past 13 years, the company has been helping enterprises digitally transform via its on-demand cloud ...
Q&A: Oxford University museums digitize collections for 24/7 virtual access
With more than 8.5 million treasured objects in its care, the Gardens, Libraries and Museums (GLAM) of the University of Oxford contain some of the world’s most significant collections, such as the Einstein blackboard, the Oxfordshire dinosaurs, and Egyptian mummies. With so many items in its care, GLAM can’t display them all. In fact, it only has floor ...
Q&A: Dell EMC’s big goal: Achieve one-click upgrades in the cloud
As businesses seek help transforming their data operations in a tech-driven world, they rely on partners to help with software’s shifts and cloud management. Dell EMC is one key partner helping businesses transform. But the company itself has faced many challenges as the tech industry’s reliance on cloud applications grows. The biggest challenge has been ensuring its customers can shift ...
Q&A: Enterprise demands even faster data delivery as multicloud era evolves
Businesses don’t want to wait to receive their data. They want it in their hands … NOW. This is one immediate challenge facing service providers such as CenturyLink Inc., a telecom company utilizing private cloud capabilities to get clients the information they need without delay. As the computing industry changes at an increasingly rapid pace, CenturyLink strives to stay on top of evolving ...
Q&A: Nutanix Mine unearths backup and recovery as hyperconverged solution
When you live at the intersection of hyperconverged infrastructure and software-defined storage, playing nice with the neighbors on both sides of the street is crucial. For Nutanix Inc., it’s a test of successfully shifting its product portfolio entirely to software services while balancing relations with hardware appliance suppliers. Strengthening its partnership with backup and recovery software ...
Q&A: Humble and hungry, Nutanix doesn’t fear an app-driven world
When admiring another’s garden, it’s easy to forego tending one’s own flowers. In the fast-paced world of software updates, operations can get weedy for even the biggest cloud computing service providers, as they take care of customer needs while striving to ensure their core values and individuality don’t get lost in the yard. Such is ...
Q&A: As SAP consolidates under flagship HANA, Dell strengthens partnership
There’s comfort in familiarity, especially for specific software platforms employed in the enterprise. But when these platforms evolve to meet modern computing demands, things can get complicated for those employees using the software on a regular basis. While many technology providers work hard to ensure such systems and their upgrades are implemented properly, it can be ...
Q&A: OpenShift infiltrates enterprise as telcos seek to ease container deployments
Hybrid and multicloud technologies are here to stay, and already companies are working tirelessly to make sure their operations fit within this modern computing architecture. Both forms of cloud mashups are designed to give companies more control over containers’ virtualized methods for software deployments in today’s application-first world. Helping to automate away the complexities of hybrid ...
Q&A: How new HPE, Nutanix team-up improves workload migrations
Maintaining customer relationships during tech transitions can be very difficult if a business doesn’t have the support of their partners. They are likely to require assistance with maintenance, implementation, and even everyday technology solutions. Company partners can help transitions occur smoothly so they can quickly go back to servicing customers’ needs, according to Phil Davis (pictured, right), chief ...
Q&A: Red Hat exec pulls back the curtain on RHEL 8’s own digital transformation
Red Hat Inc. announced the general release of its Linux powerhouse operating system RHEL 8 this week at Red Hat Summit in Boston. The OS is designed to span the breadth of deployments across enterprise IT, from bare-metal servers and Linux containers to public and private clouds. Throughout development, the RHEL organization went through its own digital ...