The digital revolution has given business powerful tools to draw the most value out of data. However, business is not alone when it comes to benefiting from data science. Companies and industries outside the usual scope of the enterprise world also make use of data. Of note is the racing community, where fractions of a ...

It is a universal truth that business workloads are moving from the physical world to the digital world. This includes tech infrastructure tasks, as the Cloud and virtualization absorb what once were on-premise jobs. Physical infrastructure is starting to take a back seat to digital systems, where data and software rule. To gain some insight ...

When it comes to serious IT, the motto is: “Don’t fix what isn’t broken.” When downtimes cost millions of dollars, that’s a good attitude to have. Experimentation is not a virtue for critical business applications. However, in this world of digital revolution, what worked yesterday might not work tomorrow. New rules make the slow and ...

Workloads are territorial beasts. Many applications and process chains are designed to run in one place, in one environment. Updating workloads to new technology is hard enough, so migrating company processes to the cloud represents a real challenge. Fortunately, companies exist to help businesses figure out the benefits of remote computing and take their applications ...

Moving data is no fun. Data has a weight, and that weight can fall heavily on budgets and schedules. Worse, moving data eats up a considerable amount of computing resources that could be running those money-making applications. A company called Mellanox Technologies, Ltd. has a solution in the form of a system known as RDMA ...

Collecting data is one thing; protecting it is another. Backup and recovery systems are a necessary part of any IT infrastructure. Even so, no one likes it. Backup is slow, complex and often expensive. Recovery can be confusing and bloat up a system with copies and old data that has no value. This is changing. ...

The cloud is real, important and not going away anytime soon. For businesses, though, this presents a problem. Most of their critical applications live inside the firewall. Moving those applications into the cloud is a treacherous process from both a business and technical perspective. Making that road easier would be a great step forward for ...

The strength of VMware, Inc. isn’t the technology; it’s the community. Thousands of people across the world are experimenting, innovating and sharing their discoveries. The end result is an ecosystem around VMware, not just of products, but of people. VMUG is the “VMware User Group,” an organization dedicated to expanding that ecosystem with training and ...

The tech world changes, but legacy systems endure. That’s simply the truth of the modern business environment. Companies know they must transform in this digital revolution, but they’re also tied to ancient systems filled with custom applications. To solve this problem, companies turn toward partners who can help them navigate these strange new waters. To ...

No business wants to spend time thinking about their tech infrastructure. They have better things to do, like serving customers. However, in this age of digital transformation, business is defined by their infrastructure. Squaring this circle will be one of the drivers for tech innovation going forward, but one step in that direction is composable ...