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Today’s mobile workforce demands instant, ubiquitous access to information. Gone are the days when IT teams can restrict access to sensitive information based on physical presence in an office. The challenge today is enabling anytime, anywhere access to information without compromising on security considerations. At the RSA Conference 2018 in San Francisco last month, mobile…

Across industries, organizations are moving workloads between on-premises data centers and the public cloud, creating a hybrid computing environment that combines the efficiencies of on-premises equipment with the agility and scalability of the cloud. While this approach delivers an optimized, flexible computing environment, it also creates headaches for IT professionals responsible for coordinating backups across…

Hurricanes cause significant damage to anyone in their path. As IT leaders, we can’t help but think about the disruption they also bring to organizations with data centers that host critical applications. We have yet to see the full impact of this year’s storms on IT operations at major companies, but if history is any…

Increasingly, success in today’s business environment requires a level of flexibility that goes well beyond what companies have relied on in the past. In industry after industry, disruptions driven by digital technologies make it clear just how much we are moving away from “business as usual.” Consider the disruption that Uber and Lyft brought to…

Data is growing exponentially, and it’s changing the way organizations perform fundamental activities: engaging customers, developing market strategy, making business decisions, optimizing operations and identifying new revenue streams. Data is at the core of digital transformation, a holistic business strategy that leverages the Internet of Things (IoT), data-driven insights and cloud solutions to drive business…

Software is more important than ever. Nearly every organization has an application that interacts with customers or constituents. When these apps don’t perform as expected, problems arise. Brad Stoner, a senior engineer with AppDynamics, says that 74 percent of users will leave a website if it doesn’t load in 5 seconds. If you’re doing business…

“Science fiction is happening now,” said George Westerman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It is happening as we speak.” Describing how the combination of technologies such as social media, mobile devices, cloud computing and data analytics are driving a breathtaking surge in technological advances, Westerman, principal research scientist for the Initiative on the Digital…

One of the most common questions data center operators have is which workloads they should move to the cloud. A frequent follow-up is which cloud is the best destination for each workload. The cloud has become a regular element of most IT strategies. Its flexibility, agility, scalability and budget reliability make it an attractive option…