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The evolution and woes of data protection in fin-tech
After one of the computing industry’s largest acquisitions with the Dell-EMC merger last year, many existing customers wondered how they’d take full advantage of all the technology extended by the massive organization, and what it would mean for their data. How would data now be protected? And what exactly is the difference between data security and protection? “It ...
Data security versus data availability: how one university balances both
Because one of the tenets of higher education is the free flow and exchange of ideas and information, college campus networks try to remain as open and as accessible as possible. As a result, many modern college campuses have grown into vibrant hubs of emerging technology and high-level learning, combined with a young, dedicated (and occasionally ...
Delays in Microsoft Azure Stack stoke customer interest
With a recent team-up between tech giants, Microsoft Corp. is expected to release its Azure Stack hybrid cloud operating platform on Dell EMC hardware this year. Amidst plenty of buzz at this year’s Dell EMC World conference, expectations are high for the two partners to meet customer demand for more agile, agnostic systems integrations for enterprise computing. “We ...
How aligned, strategic partnerships benefit the cloud’s end products
As is common in the tech world, Dell has always had technology alliances with other companies, creating a kind of synergy that benefits all partners in those alliances, as well as customers. But Dell’s merger with EMC has enabled the newly formed company to realign its own strategic partnerships even more tightly than before. What was ...
Evolve or fail: hybrid cloud and the modern data center
With the digital transformation and data migration to the cloud currently sweeping the information technology industry, companies are beginning to understand what they need is not a few simple hardware upgrades here and there as in the past, but a complete makeover. And while most traditional IT organizations are spending the vast majority of their ...
Why did Dell EMC create a customer experience engineer position?
Customer satisfaction is an important part of the bigger information technology picture. In fact, it so important that Dell EMC has created the “customer experience engineer” position to focus on what the customer is doing and feeling, what their questions are, and what issues they are trying to resolve. That involves a three-part process: using ...
The hybrid cloud infrastructure debate: Converged or hyper-converged? Or both?
Many traditional information technology organizations that operate on older technology have largely created separate, siloed data centers. But with the cloud and virtualization revolution currently sweeping the IT industry, many of those companies are seeking to undergo digital transformation and invest in hybrid cloud, and that would facilitate the need for new network infrastructure. There ...
Dell EMC explains hyper-converged infrastructure and hybrid cloud focus
The advent of cloud technology has done more than simply give companies a new tech tool to play with. Everything relating to information technology is being fundamentally transformed into a new way of doing business, from IT itself, to security, to the workforce. Dell EMC’s customers are realizing that, and hoping the company can help ...
Where is data going? The future of data-driven industry
One of the most relevant conversations at this week’s Informatica World asks, where is data going? The digital transformation and shift to enterprise and cloud currently sweeping virtually all manner of companies and their information technology organizations is hot news, but there are still questions to be asked about the future of data-driven industry. Finding out how Informatica ...
SAP says strategic partnerships key to consumer confidence
In today’s software-driven information technology industry, strategic partnerships that run from the data center to the edge of the network are critical in helping to ensure products and services deploy on time and operate in the most efficient manner. Tackling security blind spots and other potential pitfalls of industry collaboration, SAP SE leverages its partner ecosystem ...