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Enterprises are experiencing a confluence of new challenges here in the tumultuous year 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic suddenly forced employees around the globe to work from home, target markets are in flux and the evolution of public cloud pricing is adding complexities to IT budgets.  To adapt to these conditions and become more resilient for […]

I spoke with Zeus Kerravala, Founder and Principal Analyst at ZK Research, about the shift towards multi-cloud networking, and how companies must adapt their networking strategies to align with the new multi-compute world, where data is increasingly distributed across multiple locations.

Next-generation technology is tomorrow’s legacy. In any enterprise, upgrading technology is a cycle and not a one-time activity, with the frequency depending on the desired business impact. Organizations need to upgrade in order to keep up as technologies evolve. Based on their upgrade strategy, enterprises don’t necessarily have to do periodic full upgrades every two […]

If IT operations teams want to deliver maximum business value from AIOps (artificial intelligence operations) deployments, they should pay attention to these five common mistakes that can trip their best-laid plans.  Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is an umbrella term for the use of big data analytics, machine learning (ML) and other artificial intelligence […]

While some of the practices and technologies associated with DevOps are still immature, small teams have nevertheless evolved to a more comprehensive engagement with their company’s overall IT capabilities. Teams that have enjoyed this kind of success are seeing happier customers and are being congratulated by upper management. But what is next?  Organizational leaders are […]

Open-source cloud applications have gone mainstream. More companies are using open-source apps in business-critical software stacks, and the extent of reliance is gaining momentum. However, a common struggle comes up with many enterprise deployments: how to manage the operations of open-source applications in hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Open-source operations are difficult due to the differing […]

From software companies in the heart of Silicon Valley to financial services leaders in New York to hotels and restaurants in the central United States, all have faced a similarly frustrating experience from time to time: poor indoor wireless connectivity.  Facing the breaking point when it comes to complaints from employees and customers, most IT […]

Today: Company Name: Alluxio (data orchestration software) Company description:  Proven at global web scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the developer of open source data orchestration software for the cloud. Alluxio moves data closer to big data and machine learning compute frameworks in any cloud across clusters, regions, clouds and countries, providing memory-speed […]

For a decade and a half, PCIe connectivity hardware has delivered improved computing performance despite a smaller footprint on motherboards. The PCIe serial bus has helped usher in new advancements in computing applications, from increased capacity drives for in-memory processing to larger-capacity scratch disks and graphics processing units (GPUs) for 3D video and graphics processing. […]

From workloads and applications and splitting workload traffic for redundancy to optimizing feature sets and identifying the best way to manage and track cloud costs, there are a number of areas to consider when moving to a multi-cloud strategy. The combination of benefits that can be achieved has driven up the popularity of a multi-cloud […]