A Cloud First Strategy means that as an organization brings new applications or services online, it tries to explore the viability of a cloud deployment prior to deploying within a more traditional architecture. Many organizations today are considering a Cloud…
Data Monetization is leveraging an organization’s existing data to either increase profits or efficiency. This data can come from a variety of sources including modern devices like the Internet of Things (IoT) and sensors and cameras. But it can also…
Can a data protection company that first released its products in the pre-cloud era claim to adopt a “cloud first” strategy? The proof would be in the proverbial pudding, of course. If a company developing products for IT is putting…
Using new technology can be hard. Getting to the new technology is often the hardest part, and there are a few keys to making that migration as painless as possible. Painful migrations can create the worst of all situations –…
Most IT professionals think of cloud storage as storage at the end of an internet connection that, because of the inherent latency, is for data that doesn’t need instant access. As a result, IT uses it mostly for backup, archive…
Read between the lines of VMware’s latest VSAN announcement and you can learn a few things. The first thing I see is that VMware is definitely feeling the pinch — or at the very least worried they will feel the…
In IT circles when the discussion of “the cloud” comes up, whether for cloud compute or cloud storage, the first thought is a public cloud like Amazon, Google or Azure. But the reality is the cloud is not a location,…
Science fiction is about to be honest to goodness science. The reason? A company called Cloud Constellation will put data centers in space. They call it “SpaceBelt, The Information Ultra-Highway — a cloud vendor above all others.” The idea is…
The first commercial solution designed for backing up containers is here. So the first question is: do you need to back up containers? The answer is really up to you. Whether or not they need backup depends on how you…
Everyone acknowledges that flash storage is faster than spinning disk, and most acknowledge that the closer to the CPU this storage is, the more it accelerates I/O performance. In addition, everyone agrees that the only thing currently faster than flash…
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