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Inside the Dell EMC/Microsoft team-up for Azure Stack hybrid cloud services
Microsoft Corp. and Dell Technologies Inc. have been developing a collaborative cloud offering through Azure, and they’ve recently begun to unroll their new Azure Stack, which is a hybrid cloud offering for both cloud and on-premises deployments. As Dell EMC tells it, partnering with Microsoft for this rollout was easy. “From a Dell EMC perspective, it’s a ...
IBM applies three-tiered approach to AI, deep learning computing systems
As artificial intelligence and deep learning revolutionize the computing market, these new technologies require very complex and high-performance computing systems. So what are technology companies doing to meet these complex demands? IBM Corp. has stepped up to the challenge by creating a three-tiered approach. “IBM saw the opportunity and realized that we really need to ...
Navel gazing serves IBM well for digital transformation best practices
While the urge to be data driven is reaching a fever pitch in the modern world of business, the actual implementation of this concept is usually fraught with the challenges of reworked computing architectures and evolving corporate cultures. But those computing giants delivering the infrastructure for data-first business such as IBM are also looking to pave the way through ...
How AI can return balance to customer relations
It used to be that popular brands and the companies behind them had all the marketing power. But thanks to e-commerce and user-driven social networks, that power has shifted to the consumer. So how is artificial intelligence bringing a little power balance back between companies and consumers in the age of the customer? And what does this mean for ...
Researchers uncover why IT is more interested in resiliency than disaster recovery
From 2017 to 2018, there was a significant rise of about 30 to 35 percent in customer inquiries about resilience at the information technology research and advisory firm Gartner Inc. So what has made this topic so important to customers who might not have even heard of “IT resiliency” a few years ago? There are ...
Building ‘resilient IT’ crucial for long-term digital transformations
As enterprises and organizations continue to embrace the digital transformation where data is driving business decisions and reworking corporate culture, one key concept is important to think through — the resiliency of information technology and the implications long term of building flexible, scalable technology that can continue to grow and expand with company needs. “If ...
Catching on: hyperconverged infrastructure offers more flexibility for businesses
As converged infrastructure and hyperconverged infrastructure become more and more important to companies and organizations, Dell EMC has launched its Ready Stack to ensure that it captures this growing desire. “Ready Stack is a way to address a market that we haven’t gone after directly, which is the build systems,” said Vince Affatati (pictured, left), global vice president ...
Data will be a ‘capital asset’ in the future; companies must monetize, capitalize now
As the economy begins to become increasingly digitized, big data is becoming a crucial asset for companies and organizations moving forward. It is the currency that will move and influence customers, and companies are wrestling through many questions and challenges as they move forward into a digital transformation in order to capitalize on big data ...
Dell EMC leads HCI market: How did it happen?
Dell EMC recently announced that it is the number one market leader in hyperconverged infrastructure. So how did it happen? Gil Shneorson (pictured), senior vice president and general manager of VxRail at Dell EMC, helped bring insight into Dell EMC’s market growth. “We found a way to take a systems approach to what is otherwise a software-defined ...
Software-defined data center drives efficiencies at CenturyLink
What is a software-defined data center, and why is it the next step in the evolving concept of a data center? David Shacochis (pictured, left), vice president of product management at CenturyLink Inc., and Jim Aluotto (pictured, right), director of service provider business, Americas region, at VMware Inc., explained in depth what an SDDC is and what the future ...