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NetApp wants to make hybrid HCI Amazon-easy
Weaving infrastructure loci — core, cloud and edge — together is crucial if multicloud is going to mean more than a bunch of stuff in silos dotting the globe. It allows companies to view their data in its entirety and allows them to deploy to the different infrastructure types at their own pace without having ...
Micron pumps up IT systems with lightning-speed NVDIMM
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, modern applications — these aren’t terms that spring to mind when someone mentions hoary hardware vendors. Perhaps they should be, since software doesn’t run on thin air; its performance has everything to do with underlying hardware. This is what Micron Technology Inc. is trying to communicate to customers as it tweaks ...
In multicloud muddle, vendors must partner for greater good
Technology partnerships have many faces. Some are rightly derided as “optical deals” or “Barney deals,” and others basically boil down to reselling. With multicloud causing serious migraines, tech partners vying to win customers had better serve up stronger medicine. The solutions they bring to market must come with pieces glued together and the value-add spelled ...
VMware’s pushing to be the choice platform for cloud service providers
While some are pondering how VMware Inc. is going to stay competitive with so many workloads moving to public cloud, the company is busy making inroads to private cloud and cloud-service vendors. It is working to enable enterprises to build their own clouds on-premises and give cloud-service providers the raw materials they need to deliver ...
VMware service provider automates away hybrid migration headaches
Service providers are great assists in a company’s overall cloud strategy — but at some point, companies may acquire more than they can keep a grasp on. To earn their keep, service providers ought to be automating and managing complex migration and hybrid tasks on customers’ behalf. “This whole cloud operations is becoming a major ...
Dynamic networking juices business value from hybrid, edge
On-premises data centers, private and public clouds, software as a service applications, microservices, internet of things edge devices — there are so many parts to the modern information technology universe. How is a single company to get them all working together to juice out desired business outcomes? According to VMware Inc., it’s pretty much hopeless ...
Wild cards in cloud serve up data protection as a service
Customers are demanding more and more technologies be delivered as a service. It’s not just infrastructure commodities like storage and compute; it’s also well-honed solutions like data protection. VMware Inc. and Dell EMC are working to deliver data protection as a service to cloud providers themselves, who in turn deliver it to their customers. At ...
How customers cheered Infinidat into data protection market
Add Infinidat Inc. to the collection of storage companies pivoting toward data protection. Rather than viewing their storage legacy as baggage, the company says it provides a wrought iron foundation for its end-to-end data backup and protection services. Infinidat designed its architecture for mixed flash and non-flash workloads (with speeds actually beating all-flash) from the ...
Why data protection is a day-one issue for infra planning
What’s data backup and protection have to do with data availability? Infrastructure planning? Developer operations? Everything now that data is becoming central to the whole information technology operation. So companies had better start packaging backup and protection into early-stage planning for all of those things, according to Stefan Renner (pictured, right), technical director of global alliances at Veeam ...
DR solution with ‘cloud taste test’ on the side for mid-market
If a company’s in the Fortune 100 and its information technology budget has a whole bunch of zeroes, then their cloud options are pretty much endless. If, however, it is a mid-market business with a slight IT staff and modest budget, an all-in push to the Amazon Web Services Inc. Cloud might not be in ...