Cloud Hopping? How to Make a Smooth Transition
Cloud hopping is becoming the new norm in the enterprise market. As IT spending continues to grow, enterprise buyers shop around for turnkey solutions that satisfy their needs for file ...Full Article
Best Practices for Intelligence-Based Storage Management
Data is the most valuable asset for any company in any industry today, yet management of data is often reactive, under-funded and – frankly – haphazard. File data tends ...Full Article
Who’s Winning the SSD Race? Ask the Patents
Traditional spinning hard disk drives (HDDs) have dominated datacenters since their inception, primarily due to lower upfront cost per gigabytes ($/GB) and the lack of other feasible storage options. ...Full Article
HPC for Advanced Analytics at the USPS
Today, the United States Postal Service is on its third generation of supercomputers, with each generation more capable than its predecessor. IDC believes the USPS embrace of HPC exemplifies ...Full Article
4 Questions to Ask Before Choosing a BaaS and DraaS Solution
Enterprises risk losing almost $2 trillion due to downtime and data loss but the vast majority of organizations remain unprepared to mitigate this costly damage. A recent study found ...Full Article
Cloud Security: Separating Fact from Fiction
Information security is a perennial concern for the enterprise. Long before cloud computing came on the scene, maintaining the integrity of data and IT infrastructure was critical to success ...Full Article
Currency Shifts Erode IT Spending Forecast
The rapid and continuing rise of the U.S. dollar against most currencies will put a dent in global IT spending during 2015, a new forecast concludes. Market researcher Gartner ...Full Article
Leading Edge Versus Bleeding Edge
Enterprises are always looking for an edge to use against the competition, and information technology was created initially and specifically to be that edge. Decades later, computing in its ...Full Article
Enterprise Software Fuels Bullish IT Forecast
Global IT spending is projected to jump 3.2 percent this year, led by a big increase in enterprise software, while an expanding cloud infrastructure is helping to drive datacenter ...Full Article
Commentary: Ultimately, It’s All Just DevOps