Nearly every day, I have conversations with individuals at enterprises, governments and other organizations who are looking for an alternative to hyperscale public cloud offerings. Often, they’re driven to transform their current processes due to siloed IT environments. Many businesses are addressing these challenges with an on-premises hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solution, which provides improved operations…

When we talk about digital transformation, we tend to think first of end-user devices and edge uses: smart objects, automated operations and streamlined processes. But none of those solutions or outcomes is possible without the right back-end infrastructure to support it. Forward-looking organizations must move beyond a “keep the lights on” mentality and strategically design…

Like all things that become a buzzword, there is some truth and some sizzle to the concept of serverless architecture. When I broach the subject with clients that are unfamiliar with the technology, the first questions are almost always the same: “What do you mean by ‘serverless’?” How does it run? To get beyond the…

Benjamin Franklin said, “In this world, nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” If he were alive today, he’d add cybersecurity breaches to that list. In fact, the average number of records lost or stolen in a data breach grew another 1.8 percent over the past year, according to the Ponemon…

At VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, VMware named CDW its HCI Partner of the Year for 2017. Here is what the VMware National Partner Management team had to say about CDW’s success in the commercial, enterprise, government, education and healthcare sectors: “CDW’s robust commitment to VMware HCI is evident across all regions, segments and verticals. Their…

“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…

We are living in exciting times, especially those of us who work in IT. The technological changes going on all around us are, historically, on par with previous leaps in human development. For businesses, technology offers tools that allow them to compete and thrive. It gives them the ability to apply intelligence and process management…

Technologies such as virtualization and the cloud have changed data centers dramatically in recent years. One thing that hasn’t changed, though, is the need to keep them cool. While many organizations have moved data and workloads to the cloud, most keep some servers on-premises, often in smaller data centers or server closets. Because most physical…

Today’s post covers Eaton’s Integrated Power Management (IPM) software and how it can benefit data center administrators with managing power across a heterogeneous environment. IPM is a software solution from Eaton that provides a set of tools to monitor and manage power devices in both physical and virtual infrastructures. IPM helps ensure data integrity and…