Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesIT spending by companies in the early days of COVID-19 quickly turned to cost-cutting. Learn how vendors responded with new terms and aggressive discounting for new business. By Linda Tucci Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the initial burst of tech spending by companies racing to support remote work has given way to cost-cutting in many organizations. IT services, hardware and
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWe continue to navigate the choppy waters created by the COVID-19 pandemic, but here are eight ways companies can enable digital transformation and overcome an uncertain economy. By Paul Roehrig Thanks to a small bit of contagious RNA, what Nobel Prize-winning biologists poetically called “bad news wrapped in protein,” CIOs have seen the foundations of digital transformation (managing data, building software for
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesWhatever you do: Don’t pay the ransom. Learn how the right tools and procedures can enable IT ops admins to prevent, mitigate and recover from a ransomware attack. By Brian Kirsch When it comes to ransomware attacks, IT operations plays a big role alongside security experts. They identify, prevent and — if all else fails — mitigate the effects of
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesAs data backup and recovery reaches new levels of capacity and complexity, learn how to gain the upper hand over common challenges in this important field. By John Edwards Data backup and recovery has always been a demanding task, requiring meticulous planning and tenacious scheduling. Although cloud technology and storage media improvements make it easier to protect essential data, the
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesFind out what data and applications are best for cloud storage, what design factors to consider and how to choose the right service to meet short- and long-term needs of remote workers. By Kurt Marko The scramble to support ubiquitous work-from-home environments has hit every corner of IT, but the effects on infrastructure operations haven’t been uniform. Organizations operating primarily
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesLeading storage vendors have recently released midrange all-flash arrays that provide the scalability, high performance and high reliability of enterprise-class offerings. By Chris Evans The midrange storage appliance ecosystem is gradually transitioning toward all-flash and the adoption of NVMe technology. This market is growing fast, with the release of several new storage arrays in the past year. These include platforms
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesYou might be aware of basic HCI use cases, such as server consolidation and virtual desktop infrastructure, but there are other areas where HCI can come in handy. By Alastair Cooke We stand close to a decade after the introduction of hyper-converged infrastructure and have a more definitive answer about where it fits into the enterprise IT landscape. Like many
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesWhat’s next for hyper-converged infrastructure? We’ve asked industry analysts and consultants to shed some light on the technology’s medium-term prospects. By John Moore Hyper-converged infrastructure technology has taken big strides since emerging a decade ago, finding a home in data centers looking to ease procurement headaches and management chores. Vendors originally positioned the technology as a simple-to-deploy, all-in-one offering that
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesA hyper-converged appliance is a hardware device that provides multiple data center management technologies within a single box. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Brien Posey; Matthew Haughn Hyper-converged systems are characterized by a software-centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage, networking and virtualization resources and other technologies. At one time, these systems were based on the use of commodity hardware, but premium
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesGreenLake allows users to pay only for the IT resources they use. Find out how it works for HCI, composable infrastructure and other purposes, its benefits and potential drawbacks. By Robert Sheldon IT teams have had two primary options for implementing workloads over the past few years: maintain infrastructure on premises — incurring the costs and overhead that comes with
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