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Next-gen data backup makes a play for multicloud market
What is with data backup and protection these days? The whole space is having an identity crises. Suddenly, “backup” is a bad word — it must be “data management” or “multicloud data storage fabric” or it’s passe. Should companies throw out their trusted data backup and go buy something with new buzz terms on the ...
Million-dollar millisecond: Lowering life-or-death latency in DX
Look at the attention spans of digital consumers today. They’ve shrunk to the point where 53% of mobile site visitors leave a page that takes longer than three seconds to load; a 100-millisecond delay in website load time can cut conversion rates by 7%. When milliseconds of latency can cost companies customers, they’d better have anything ...
Is bare Kubernetes still too messy for enterprises?
Kubernetes is touted as a computing cure-all, fixing up multicloud networking to data mobility. The open-source platform for orchestrating containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) may or may not be the panacea it’s hyped up to be. What is certain is that user-ready Kubernetes isn’t as easy as it sounds, so customers should shop carefully ...
Good tech: The push for cleaner, greener technology
“Tech for good” is trending these days. Amazon Web Services Inc. and other technology companies are increasingly combining tech and social initiatives. There is also “good tech” — technology built with sustainability and environmental concerns in mind. Among the companies investing in environmentally conscious tech are VMware Inc. It’s cleaning up after itself, reducing its ...
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Weighing cloud-native hysteria versus the hybrid real world
It’s now a status symbol for a startup to be born in cloud. Established enterprises feel they must shift applications to cloud computing to catch up and modernize. But the maturation of cloud-native tech is teaching us that on-premises data centers aren’t prisons, so we can cool down and pick our battles. We’ve seen a ...
Can data-driven companies handle regulatory wrench flying at them?
Big data and artificial intelligence are on a collision course with new privacy and security regulations. The software as a service model many companies adopt as they go digital demands fresh, easily accessed data. Are new laws going to stymie data-driven innovation for these companies? Can they deflect the regulatory wrench flying their way? Companies ...
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Remote-work revolution revs market for employee-experience tech
Research predicts that about 50% of the workforce will work remotely by next year. As these workers move out of the office, a market for employee-experience technology is opening. New remote-work tech could free employees from commutes and cubicles, and even give them back a full weekday. Companies are going to have to make working and collaborating ...
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Gartner analyst reveals what you don’t know about cloud
Companies are steadily shifting from legacy infrastructure to cloud computing. And why not? Cloud resources are more agile and elastic, and businesses can pay for what they use and no more. These are the cloud-computing knowns. However, there are a number of unknown, or little-known, facts that companies should be paying more attention to, according ...
Use cases get real with enterprise-ready blockchain service
Developers and enterprises are weary of blockchain hype. They want ready-to-go blockchain for real applications, results and profit. They’re pulling blockchain out of the cryptocoin rut and setting it on General Data Protection Regulation compliance, supply chain issues, anonymous content sharing, and more. Many companies start out with high hopes for blockchain, and then slam ...
VMware’s Googly, futuristic R&D is coming to an enterprise near you
Who wouldn’t want to be the most cutting-edge technology company in Silicon Valley? Perhaps a company that wants to sell to enterprises in the real world. Despite the apparent contradiction, there may be a space in the world for companies with one foot in the enterprise and one foot in futuristic research and development. VMware ...