The adoption of Kubernetes-enabled infrastructures and applications has revealed the challenge involved in enabling persistent, reliable data storage in an ephemeral compute…
Read MoreAn IT help desk is often the first line of support for many organizations. However, some businesses can’t justify the cost of…
Read MoreI am at the OpenStack Summit here in Austin and the announcements and releases keep rolling out, illustrating that the growing OpenStack…
Read MoreIt’s no secret that Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is becoming a critical competency in today’s enterprise networks. After all, so many enterprises…
Read MorePerhaps BITCOIN’s greatest gift to the web is not the disruptive nature of a digital currency, but the platform used to build…
Read MoreBusinesses large and small have turned to VoiP, Videoconferencing and many other IP enabled communications platforms to enhance collaboration and speed the…
Read MoreAttempting to meet the demands of data growth, organizations are turning to new storage technologies, such as large physical storage arrays, cloud services, and archival solutions. Yet all of those solutions introduce additional concerns, management overhead, and costs.…
Read MoreIT leaders are now looking to build data centers that are abstracted from legacy hardware, and early users are turning to software-defined data center (SDDC) technologies are introducing flexibility into their enterprise while reducing costs and also fueling the drive toward the cloud.…
Read MoreThe new economics of data warehousing provide attractive alternatives in both costs and benefits. While big data gets most of the attention, evolved data warehousing will play an important role for the foreseeable future. In order to be relevant, data-warehouse design and operation need to be simplified, taking advantage of greatly improved hardware, software, and methods.…
Read MoreIt's clear that most any business can benefit from faster, real-time results from their big data platforms. But real-time analysis requires a significant investment in technology and resources, which is beyond the reach of most businesses. There is hope, however: Big data and the cloud now go hand in hand, at least for the small and medium enterprise markets, which have been able to get into the big data game using cloud services. Now the cloud is beginning to bring even more capability to those looking to leverage big data.…
Read MoreToday, big data and analytics are most widely used in the large enterprise space, where companies have both an abundance of data and the budgets to deploy associated infrastructure. But 80 percent of businesses fall into the SMB category, and there are multiple ways in which companies without the infrastructure or budgets of big players can benefit from big data.…
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