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Source-based data protection blends in from apps to appliances
Private and public clouds added to on-premises data centers are breaking the infrastructure environment into pieces. Harried customers want their data protected wherever it lands, which is why some vendors are baking protection into a whole range of products. “We’re really seeing much more of a move toward a source-based data protection,” said Ruya Barrett (pictured, ...
Data protection spot test could convert cloud holdouts
Data protection is on fire these days. Businesses anxious about migrating to foreign, off-premises cloud environments are demanding innovation in backup and recovery. These newfangled services aren’t just for companies all-in on cloud; they can also be a test bed for the cold-footed. “Every time that you modernize production, you must also modernize protection,” said Jason Buffington ...
Serving the as-a-service economy with composable all-flash storage
Software providers face rising demand for as-a-service delivery models. Digital subscription is even cropping up in businesses — like Fender Musical Instruments Corp. — far from the software core. All of these companies now require infrastructure like storage to scale with customers’ whims. “They don’t really know what is going to be the next workload, how their workloads ...
The tech ‘fit’ debate: Universal tech in a couture IT world
Technology advancements may be too much of a good thing for business environments unequipped to assimilate them. The slow adoption of analytics tech, for example, is primarily due to cultural barriers for 62 percent of companies surveyed in a recent report from SAS Institute Inc. Another 25 percent of businesses say lack of internal expertise and resources is the ...
Curing on-premises-to-cloud cold feet with VMware
Companies with cold feet about relocating on-premises applications to the public cloud may need a common denominator to warm them up. For on-prem-to-cloud specialist SkyTap Inc., the go-between is VMware Inc.’s virtual machine technology. “A lot of our customers have applications that they don’t want to touch,” says Roger Frey (pictured, left), vice president of alliances ...
Datrium’s cloud affinities could beat HCI to the hybrid punch
First hyperconverged infrastructure combined software-defined storage with commodity hardware for an on-premises “private cloud.” Now converged infrastructure startup Datrium Inc. wants to go further by mimicking public cloud in on-prem or hybrid environments. Datrium’s mission is “to give customers in this hybrid world a way to bring that kind of infrastructure with the simplicity, scale, performance you ...
For price-to-performance at scale, all-flash storage can’t cut it, says Infinidat
A major selling point of innovative cloud infrastructure is limitless scalability. Ironically, once an organization hits mega scale, economics could send them hurtling back from advanced all-flash storage to more old-school methods. “The all-flash array movement is great for certain workloads,” said Erik Kaulberg (pictured, right), senior director of cloud solutions at Infinidat Inc. However, companies should think ...
Who’s driving? Assembling tech and talent for data-driven enterprise
Information technology professionals praying automation won’t take their jobs should be careful what they wish for. Sure, in the next few years $1.6 billion worth of nondifferentiated labor will disappear from on-premises data centers, according to the True Private Cloud report from Wikibon.com. But as automation eats up rote tasks, digital transformation and data-driven business models ...
Dell EMC, VMware rejuvenate and unify multicloud data protection
A large majority of enterprises have rejected the dichotomy of an either/or, on-premises data center versus public cloud. Today, 85 percent embrace a hybrid or multicloud strategy, according to RightScale’s “2017 State of the Cloud Survey.” They are employing both public clouds and private clouds, including virtualized on-prem environments. This shift to multiple clouds is ...
VMware is on a cloud partnering spree in a bid to rebrand for the future
VMware Inc. is setting an example for how a company rooted in on-premises data centers can branch into cloud. Partnerships with the likes of Amazon Web Services Inc., IBM Corp. and Google Cloud Platform are helping to rebrand its image. Which of these deals will actually transform VMware into a cloud staple going forward? Two ...