Modestly peopled information technology teams are facing growing demands from their organizations for advanced performance. How do they deliver modern applications and all-around excellence with hands-on deck steadily disappearing? One way might be through hyperconverged infrastructure that takes up less space physically and requires less manual tinkering. “We basically have to do more with less ...

There’s a popular impression that on-premises hardware must necessarily snail behind public cloud technology. However, some organizations are leveraging the latest hyperconverged infrastructure (combining commodity hardware with a software layer) to run trend-setting software like Docker Inc. containers (a virtualized method for running distributed applications) and Kubernetes — an open-source container orchestration management platform — ...

In the evolving world of set-it-and-forget it information technology, there’s automation, and then there’s automation. Plenty of vendors claiming their technologies automate away labor are a tad deceptive; they may automate the beginning stage of a task, only to punt the ensuing grunt work right back into workers’ hands. We consulted some techies toiling in ...

The words White House Historical Association probably don’t bring bleeding-edge technology to mind. Mahogany shelves lined with dusty hardbound books seem more likely than entertaining apps and “gamefied” online experiences. But through partnering with Amazon Web Services Inc., the association is out to change that — and its inviting people to experience history in novel ways. ...

Managing a hybrid cloud environment with applications on-premises and in public cloud is a handful; throw in rapidly evolving development and operations tools and methods, and a pretty confusing maze emerges for information technology personnel to navigate. This is the muddle public-sector organizations and others must navigate as they move to modernize with cloud, DevOps, etc. A ...

Cloud infrastructure is making progress through the public sector, having won some extremely security-conscious customers, like the Central Intelligence Agency. Much smaller nonprofit organizations are also finding out what cloud infrastructure can do for them. A program that makes cloud “grants” is enabling cash-strapped nonprofits to get up and go. About 22,000 nonprofits now run ...

Data analytics projects are deflating at a rate of 85 percent, according to some analysts. The culprit is not likely a lack of software tools — the market is brimming with them. Rather, it’s cultural hiccups to blame. One such obstacle is the low degree of transparency and trust in data analytics across entire organizations. ...

Cloud computing has picked up major steam in the public sector since the Central Intelligence Agency moved to Amazon Web Services Inc. in 2014. While speed and efficiency of provisioning cloud infrastructure can take huge chunks of time and labor out of public sector operations, the formal approval to work with government agencies called Authority to Operate, or ATO, ...

Since Dell Inc. merged with EMC Corp. to become Dell EMC, the company has embarked on deep silo searching to bring its portfolio together into more cohesive solutions. The multitude of product offerings, acquisitions, etc., was a bit of a mess for its channel community and customers to dig through. Can it now become a ...

There’s more than one way to skin a cat, and this applies to computing’s on-premises-to-cloud migration as much as anything else. Companies can whittle down the fear factor of moving data and applications to cloud with a try-and-see approach rather than a go-for-broke method, because in today’s ecosystem creative technology partnerships can let customers start small ...