As the economy improves, CIOs must lay the foundation for the next generation of enterprise business growth, and the new battleground is data. Companies focused on transforming themselves into data-driven organizations are seeing increased innovation and improved financial performance. By contrast, businesses that continue with business as usual—amassing terabytes of data in siloed, monolithic storage
the rapid evolution of enterprise storage technologies, combined with external forces like the explosion of big data, can keep the best linux® and server administrators playing catch-up when it comes to storage. the status quo in the enterprise — a clutter of monolithic storage devices and proprietary, disconnected technologies – stifles innovation and productivity, leaving
From physical to virtual to cloud, I.T. organizations have adopted increasingly complex technologies as their enterprises demand greater agility. It’s left to I.T. leaders and their organizations to manage this complexity, keeping operating costs low while delivering on ever-increasing SLA expectations. With the rapid growth in unstructured data volumes, I.T. organizations are turning their attention
Today’s enterprise faces dramatic change and tremendous opportunity, and the traditional role of the enterprise architect — to ensure adequate technology governance, drive transformational initiatives, and support critical business processes — has become even more challenging. Enterprises are collecting and storing unprecedented amounts of data, which threatens to usurp fundamental business processes and put key
Social, mobile, and big data applications play an increasingly important role within the enterprise application portfolio. These new applications types bring with them requirements that differ in many ways from those of traditional enterprise applications. One distinguishing factor for these new applications is their voracious appetite for unstructured data, including images, video, documents, and text.
Today’s storage admin is witnessing an unprecedented explosion in the amount of unstructured data being created, collected, and processed by the enterprise. According to research by the mcKinsey global institute1, the amount of data being generated globally is growing at a rate of 40% per year. This data deluge has a direct impact on the
Cloud platforms are increasingly a viable option for a growing set of enterprise workloads. Businessaligned developers are aggressively leveraging public cloud platforms to build and deploy new elastic applications and to extend legacy capabilities. They have come to expect speed, choice, and cost transparency. Meanwhile, nearly half of enterprise IT shops claim to be building
Virtualization continues to be an important technology and foundation for cloud. However, the hypervisor is commoditizing, and the virtualization market today is moving to a layer of software above the hypervisor called cloud system software. While a hypervisor abstracts the resources of a single server, cloud system software abstracts across large pools of compute, storage,
Box on iPad is a powerful field sales tool for Bespoke. In a prospective client meeting, team members can tap into Box to instantly access a wealth of product and pricing information—information which otherwise might have taken a day or two to provide. As a result, the meeting follow-up is about the close of the
Organizations require a scalable, tiered, and highly available infrastructure on which to deploy business and mission-critical applications. A Microsoft private cloud enables on-demand delivery of applications as standardized IT services and can offer a new kind of agility, focus, and cost savings. Usually, your choice is between implementing a prepackaged solution or attempting to build