R. Danes, Author at SiliconANGLE

Infra

Source-based data protection blends in from apps to appliances

By R. Danes Sep 11, 2017

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…

Cloud

Data protection spot test could convert cloud holdouts

By R. Danes Sep 11, 2017

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…

Infra

Serving the as-a-service economy with composable all-flash storage

By R. Danes Sep 8, 2017

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…

Women in Tech

The tech ‘fit’ debate: Universal tech in a couture IT world

By R. Danes Sep 7, 2017

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…

Cloud

Curing on-premises-to-cloud cold feet with VMware

By R. Danes Sep 6, 2017

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.…

Infra

Datrium’s cloud affinities could beat HCI to the hybrid punch

By R. Danes Sep 6, 2017

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…

Infra

For price-to-performance at scale, all-flash storage can’t cut it, says Infinidat

By R. Danes Sep 6, 2017

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…

Big Data

Who’s driving? Assembling tech and talent for data-driven enterprise

By R. Danes Sep 5, 2017

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…

Cloud

Dell EMC, VMware rejuvenate and unify multicloud data protection

By R. Danes Sep 4, 2017

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

VMware is on a cloud partnering spree in a bid to rebrand for the future

By R. Danes Aug 30, 2017

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…

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