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How virtualized testing helped this company enter the Digital Age painlessly | #VMworld
Ask companies who lag behind the digital transformation the reason for their reluctance, and they might tell you that cost is a factor. They don’t want to invest in new systems, technologies and services. But some say this is a woefully shortsighted view. Entering the Digital Age will not only improve performance and productivity in ...
Get ready for big rewards and big challenges from the multi-cloud world | #VMworld
Just when you’re getting used to the cloud, here come clouds — plural — as in multiple clouds, inter-cloud, cross-cloud. The reality is that different data, different workloads and different applications will likely do better in different clouds that serve unique needs. But these are early days for the multi-cloud environment, and there will be challenges ...
Getting to the bottom of it: Your cloud is only as good as your infrastructure | #VMworld
Public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud, inter-cloud, cross-cloud. Another day, another new cloud promising to solve all your business problems. But enterprises need to understand that the cloud has not changed the rules about a solid infrastructure foundation. According to some IT professionals, if you have rinky-dink infrastructure, the fanciest cloud in the world isn’t ...
How do you get more from the path to cloud than a headache? | #VMworld
As heavily touted as the benefits may be, migrating to the cloud is viewed as a perilous trek that must be endlessly prepared for and fretted over. But if you pick the right solutions provider, you may not only get a painless transition — you could start reaping benefits right away. Peter Cutts, VP of Cloud ...
To nerd-knob or not to nerd-knob? Can you afford to leave the twiddling to vendors? | #VMworld
Perhaps the two most common sentiments you hear in IT right now are that customers want choice and that customers want turnkey. And yet those two seem to be at odds with each other. In order to understand the right balance for your business, you need to look at your staff, your resources and your ...
Is high-speed storage class memory too much of a good thing for data applications? | #VMworld
Lightening fast memory and storage systems have been a boon to data applications. Retrieval and use of data at ridiculously high speeds allows insights to be arrived at and acted on in time to create totally new experiences for end users. But there is a catch: Some of these technologies are actually getting too fast ...
Will VMware eat its young? How a mature company withstands disruption | #VMworld
Another VMworld event has wrapped, and word on the street is that, while it is still the conference of the infrastructure industry, this year there was nothing especially sexy about it. Maybe we have just gotten used to an atmosphere of flashy disruptors threatening to shift the sands, so now the established is associated with the ...
Could your software be working twice as hard for you? | #VMworld
With a new vendor trying to sell a software service any given day, it’s getting difficult for companies to know what is worth it and what is just a gimmick. Even taking stock of the software they already have can raise more questions than it answers; you sure are paying for that, but are you using ...
How one company organized its growing data centers | #VMworld
“Digital transformation” can seem like a big, scary term to non-IT companies that are nonetheless compelled to utilize IT to stay relevant. Some may have memories of spending weeks and months setting up data centers, and the constant maintenance needed to keep them running. But times have changed, and IT companies are offering customers easy ...
You’re not the only one trying to monetize your data. How can you protect it? | #SeizeTheData
As the cloud infrastructure revolution continues, it brings with it both rewards and challenges. While some segments in enterprise are able to adjust with minimal strain, some require considerable tweaking, and still others are undergoing a total paradigm shift. Security and threat detection is an area where the old virus detection and firewalls are failing ...