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Cloud-HCI cocktail quenches enterprise thirst for easy VDI
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is not exactly top-trending news for tech analysts at the moment, according to Calvin Hsu (pictured), vice president of product marketing at Citrix Systems Inc. The virtualization technology hosts desktop operating systems on central servers within data centers. After generating a thick flurry of hype several years ago, many industry experts have pronounced ...
Veeam and VMware extend team-up with Continuous Data Protection
VMware Inc. customers have long favored Veeam Software Inc.’s backup and recovery services tailor-made for virtual machines. But since goliaths Dell Technologies and Amazon Web Services Inc. have joined with VMware, some wonder if they will crowd Veeam out. “We have a very good relationship with VMware,” said John Metzger (pictured), vice president of product marketing ...
Veeam sandwiches data availability with Cisco’s network hardware
The complexity of hybrid infrastructure gets devilish at the application layer where the needs of traditional bare-metal and cloud-native apps often clash. “The network brings this together,” according to Frank Palumbo (pictured, right), senior vice president at Cisco Systems Inc. Applications must be able to move about the network free of infrastructure conflicts, Palumbo stated. Palumbo joined Andy ...
Drone analytics company crunches bunches of IoT data in the cloud
A single Internet of Things-connected device is nice, but two or three put together are better. That is, the data each device collects yields smarter insights when analyzed together. But crunching many converged data streams at once can strain ordinary data centers’ compute power. May research from Cisco Systems Inc. breaks down the struggle in numbers: 73 ...
Google flips client-server model for improved apps, data collection
Developers at Google Inc. are rethinking the standard client-server model in rendering applications. Apps might better serve individual web browsers or entities like Facebook Inc. or Twitter Inc. depending on which side they fall, according to Stephen Fluin (pictured), developer advocate at Google. “There’s a lot of consumers of content that we don’t necessarily think about ...
IBM’s Node-RED democratizes Watson for code novices
IBM Corp.’s Emerging Technology Group in the United Kingdom needed a way to speed churn proofs of concept for clients. The resulting development platform, Node-RED, hides complexity so well, even code-illiterates can use it, according to Nick O’Leary (pictured), Watson Internet of Things developer advocate at IBM. “It allows people to start playing with the rich capabilities of the ...
Container tech spurs Datrium beyond the realm of virtual machines
Container technology’s virtualized methods for running distributed software applications are increasingly outshining the work of virtual machines. Many experts agree that containers are more agile and scalable vehicles for workloads compared to VMs. But a lot of existing products — particularly hyperconverged infrastructure appliances — were built with VM-centric principals. Can systems built for VMs transform and ...
Is the secret to enterprise transformation hiding in the HR department?
Doing better business and saving loads of cash might not require hiring financial and accounting wizards to the C-suite. It may be possible simply through restructuring work in the oft-neglected Human Resources department, according to Deepak R. Bharadwaj (pictured), general manager of the HR Business Unit at ServiceNow Inc. “I think the opportunity to transform the ...
Hyperconverged infrastructure systems are as good as their software-defined storage, says Gartner analyst
The term “hyperconverged infrastructure,” commonly called HCI, may bring to mind big metal boxes and hardware stacks. But in fact the hardware is the least important ingredient in integrated systems. The software layer — particularly, software-defined storage — is where differentiation occurs. Gartner Inc. researchers say that HCI is the fastest-growing segment of the integrated ...
Specializing apps in the big data-fast data virtuous cycle
Becoming a data-driven enterprise requires more than just parking data in a gigantic repository. “There’s big data, and there’s fast data,” said Dave Tang (pictured), senior vice president of corporate marketing and communications at Western Digital Corp. The true yield from data lakes is the predictive algorithms data scientists build from them. “And we’re able to ...