The test and development process is central to how companies grow their offerings and reach a wider customer base. Today, customers are quick to jump ship for new features and better service level agreements. Development teams seek to deliver new products as quickly as possible, while operations struggle to keep pace. Helping development, operations and…

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…

In 2013, global digital data weighed in at 4.4 zettabytes (a zettabyte equals a trillion gigabytes). IDC predicts that figure will leap to 180 zettabytes by 2025. The amount of data that organizations must manage is growing in size, complexity and value. Unfortunately, while most organizations feel that growth and complexity, they don’t see comparable…

The most pressing demands of data centers in 2017 can be summed up in two words: simplicity and performance. Data center managers are seeking to reduce complexity while shrinking the barriers between data and the customer. A key part of this initiative is replacing the mechanical disk with solid-state drives (SSDs). In fact, data center…

Many IT teams purchase storage systems in much the same way people buy cars. If you’re a car buyer like me, you take your time, think about it and order the car you want. You really understand the car you currently have and the car you’re going to drive, including the technologies that have changed…

“I need a phone line installation – is that something you handle?” “My company wants a multi-vendor, international solution for voice, data, and cloud; can you help me with that?” “Is it possible for us to add some public cloud for usage spikes? Most hyper-scale providers have redefined cloud computing as a self-service product. You…

Having attended both Cisco Live 2015 in June and the VMworld 2015 conference this past week, the message has been loud and clear: We at the cusp of a major transition. Data centers will look and function much differently in the next few years. As IT Professionals, the best career move we can make is…

Interestingly, many organizations today are utilizing cloud computing and don’t even know it. A lot of this has come from the consumerization of IT, which is the process of emerging technology in the consumer market spreading into businesses and organizations (Think: mobile devices, social media, online services, etc.). At other times, cloud usage can help…

For those of us who wondered if Nutanix left any complexity in storage management, they continue to apply customer and partner feedback to simplify storage and compute environments. 

EMC World, EMC’s premier technology conference, was held May 5 thru May 8, 2014, at the Venetian conference center in Las Vegas. Numerous keynote addresses, breakout sessions, virtual labs, announcements and demonstrations was a lot to take in over the course of four days, and even more to fit into a single blog post. Therefore,…