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Has Big Data passed the tipping point in traditional storage? | #CUBEconversations
As enterprises amass huge data sets for analytics, insights and ultimately profits, two tricky problems might bob to the surface. First, traditional storage is not well equipped to handle gargantuan data. The obvious solution would be to move it to the cloud, which brings up the second problem: Some organizations with massive data sets want ...
Remote control: Is this the off-prem solution for public cloud holdouts? | #IOConversations
Most enterprises today want to get out of the data center business — meaning they want to outsource the maintenance of the data center and infrastructure to focus on innovative software and applications that help them make money. The public cloud, with its inexpensive, full-service management, is alluring to many. Yet some businesses have cold ...
The big leagues do the data center differently — can this company help you copy them? | #IOConversations
Between the move to cloud and Big Data monetization, to name just two big IT jobs, the modern enterprise has a lot on its plate these days. If CTOs heed every vendor saying that the network has to go software-defined or applications have to be containerized, etc., they will soon have more balls in the ...
The mobile and the millennial: Futurecasting automotive in the Age of Uber | #WomenInTech
The velocity of technological change is at an all-time high as developers break through barriers and bottlenecks every day. It can be challenging for a digital-native company to keep up with all the innovation — traditional companies may find they need extra hands on deck just to keep them updated. They know that VCs and ...
On demand: We can now spin up apps in a day, so why not networks? | #Riverbed
The cloud has made once-clunky and expensive infrastructure a made-to-order service you can pay for online with a credit card in seconds. This has made application development easy enough for middle schoolers. Just one element of infrastructure lags behind in a seeming time warp: Networking. Some professionals say that networking is ripe for a fundamental ...
Can this technology put a set of eyes on all levels of your application? | #Riverbed
Business managers, CTOs, developers and vendors are all quibbling over what makes the perfect cloud infrastructure. Will this recipe be single-cloud or multi-cloud? Will it be hybrid with a dash of on-prem or a heap? While they disagree on some particulars, most agree that it will involve multiple environments and much greater sprawl than the ...
Living on the edge: Security threats loom as IoT decentralizes the data center | #IOConversation
The idea of a single monolithic firewall to provide protection from cyber threats is becoming a bit quaint. The data center is breaking up and moving to multiple environments — this is true for most companies moving to the cloud and doubly true for those involved in the Internet of Things (IoT). This is putting ...
First cloud, now fog: Meet the floating layer that talks to applications at the edge | #Riverbed
Multi-clouding is breaking up applications and scattering them across the virtualized universe. This is undoubtedly creating challenges to swift communication of data among all these different environments. Yet no one denies that multi-clouding is a net positive for most businesses, so the big push is for better means for applications to talk to each other ...
Can Riverbed win the race to break the new network bottleneck? | #Riverbed
Some folks who work in IT have summed up the field as a search-and-destroy mission against bottlenecks, wherever they may be at the moment. Cutting-edge innovation is forever butting up against some older system that is not equal in speed or efficiency. Developers and investors know that whoever is first to break the choke point ...
If cloud is the new hardware, are applications the new data center? | #VMworld
The majority of conversations around migrating to the cloud focus on what is conserved — time, expense and effort spent on hardware and infrastructure maintenance. What an organization gains in turn is a less chattered-about but nonetheless exciting topic. As more enterprises work out the pains of moving to cloud and get established there, they ...