Nadeem Bari

The term “digital transformation” gets tossed around a lot, and not always with a great deal of care or precision. At a fundamental level, the phrase refers to efforts to apply technology to all aspects of a business to achieve benefits such as improved efficiency, increased revenue or a better customer experience. As practiced, digital…

Over the last few years, hyperconverged infrastructure has grown from a niche product to a solution that should be seriously considered by any enterprise seeking to deploy a private or hybrid cloud. But what is HCI, and how can it benefit your organization? Simply put, HCI eliminates traditional storage area networks and uses internal or…

Organizations in a variety of sectors have watched helplessly in recent years as technology-powered upstarts reinvented the rules of their business. Hotels have lost market share to services such as Airbnb. Uber and Lyft have knocked the taxi industry on its heels. And services such as Netflix pushed traditional video stores to the brink of…

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is a hot topic in the data center world right now. Unless you’ve been operating your data center in a cave for the last three years, you’ve likely been deluged with chatter about this latest addition to IT infrastructure — and with good reason. HCI takes the promise of converged infrastructure and…

Finally we are at the point where we can have a discussion about all-flash arrays without any ifs, ands, or buts. On May 4, 2015 at EMC World, EMC unveiled the much awaited XtremIO v4.0. This will be available as a free software upgrade to existing XtremIO customers. XtremIO has now been available for a…