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Can Google team-up give Nutanix cloud cred?
With on-premises infrastructure losing more ground to cloud every day, the “cloud washing” on the rise at on-prem vendors is not surprising. Is it all clever marketing to save their necks? Or are some of them selling bona fide private cloud? One company in this category is Nutanix Inc. A rare on-prem bird, it’s growing ...
Personal right or socialist agenda? Data experts get candid in sizzling GDPR debate
Data is said to be the new oil, owing to its enormous potential value, but it is unlike a typical resource in at least two outstanding ways that could keep its value locked away: One, few who possess it understand how to extract or account for its supposed value; and two, it doesn’t lawfully belong ...
A storage array did that? A bottom-up transformation story
Publicly funded and short-staffed, the Mississippi Community College Board needed to consolidate and cut costs. Its data warehouse’s storage arrays turned out to be the best place to start. “Our current system was coming up for renewal, and the renewal itself was triple what it was a year before,” said Ray Smith (pictured), assistant executive ...
IBM driven by startup envy, but analysts say that’s actually a good thing
The IBM Fast Track Your Data event in Munich this year might have been more aptly named: “Drive your data at the speed limit, and make sure to brake at yellow lights.” And this is not simply alluding to the General Data Protection Regulation panel at the conference. The three tracks at the conference were data governance; ...
How this IT team updated its stack to meet tough healthcare standards
When executives at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, decided to upgrade the college’s storage last year, they sifted through several vendors to find one with up-to-the-minute technology that fit the school’s on-premise application needs. “We wanted something that was a new and different approach to storage; it wasn’t just layering your legacy [operating system] ...
Can zero-downtime storage updates cure major healthcare IT snafus?
Nobody likes system updates, mostly because the downtime interrupts business. This rings especially true in healthcare, where patients can’t schedule a break from being sick. “Because we deal with people’s lives, we have to be careful about when we do updates. We’ve got to be cognizant of, you know, is the emergency room full, things ...
Stop complaining — GDPR might be a kick in the pants for your big data strategy
Any organizations sick of their big data governance and customer-first initiatives falling by the wayside can rejoice that by some point next year, they will get their acts together. They’ll pretty much have to, since any company that does business in Europe could face a penalty of four percent of total revenue for breaching the new General ...
Can you zoom past hybrid IT compliance headaches with container tech?
The European Union’s looming General Data Protection Regulation may make running single applications on hybrid information technology — a tricky business to begin with — even trickier, according to Roland Voelskow (pictured, right), portfolio executive of IT hosting and cloud services at T-Systems International GmbH (a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom AG. This is one reason T-Systems has increased its ...
Does counting milliseconds in streaming data make a difference in business?
Counting milliseconds in streaming data latency may not seem thrilling at first, but software developers ought to pay attention to the use cases ‘event-by-event streaming’ enables, according to George Chow (pictured), senior director of technology at Simba Technologies Inc., a Magnitude Software Inc. company. “Hitting that new threshold, the millisecond, is actually a very important milestone,” Chow said ...
If streaming data’s breaking up databases, what can put them together?
As pretty as it sounds, “streaming data” in an actual database is not the elegant, unbroken chain that data scientists and developers wish it were, according to Itamar Ankorion (pictured, right), chief marketing officer at Attunity Inc. “You’re inherently building an architecture that takes what was originally a database, but you’re kind of, in a sense, breaking ...