Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesIn this Q&A, Gartner analyst Samantha Searle provides insight into the roles of the CIO and CTO when both exist within an organization. By Mary K. Pratt An increasing number of organizations are creating CTO positions within their executive ranks, with the CIO and CTO expected to work jointly on the organization’s digital agenda, according to Gartner, the technology research and advisory
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesTekmart Africa Partner Content We have talked about the complexities of modern hard disk drives (HDDs) and the innovations that go into them to continually increase capacity and performance. However, there is no question that solid state drives (SSDs) have also earned their place in the sun. SSDs bring speed, durability and flexibility to enterprise workloads such as AI, machine learning and
Reading Time-approximately: 14 minutesThis keynote presentation focuses on innovations that allow all-flash arrays with QLC to have the same endurance and performance as TLC-based arrays. By Alistair Symon The full presentation (captured in words below.) 00:05 Alistair Symon: Hello, and welcome to the keynote session that I’m going to give on QLC everywhere. First, let me introduce myself. I’m Alistair Symon. I’m the vice
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesFollow the rebranding and renaming transitions of the multitude of Dell data protection products acquired and cultivated over the past 30 years. By Chris Evans Dell EMC’s portfolio of data protection offerings has grown over the past 30 years. Now, with a greater focus on the public cloud, how can it continue to service existing customers and bring them into
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesSoftware asset management (SAM) is the administration of processes, policies and procedures that support the procurement, deployment, use, maintenance and disposal of software applications within an organization. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com SAM is the part of IT asset management that seeks to ensure the organization complies with license agreements and does not overspend on software. An important goal of every SAM initiative is to facilitate the
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesIT asset management (information technology asset management, or ITAM) is a set of business practices that combines financial, inventory and contractual functions to optimize spending and support lifecycle management and strategic decision-making within the IT environment. Posted by: Margaret Rouse WhatIs.com Contributor(s): Brian Holak, Emily McLaughlin ITAM is often a subset of the IT service management (ITSM) process. An IT asset is classified as any company-owned information,
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesIT asset management should be an important pillar in an organisation’s digital transformation journey, but it doesn’t seem to be working. By Eric Chiu The IT asset management (ITAM) industry too often fails to deliver consistent value and protection to businesses that are seeking to optimise their IT investments, and it only has itself to blame. This is not an easy thing
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesMonitoring employees who work remotely has taken on a whole extra dimension in the Covid-19 pandemic year of 2020. Financial services firms are among those which suggest ways of doing it humanely and legally. By SA Mathieson “For a man’s house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium,” wrote the lawyer and politician Edward Coke in 1628, the
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesDuring the life cycle of an enterprise storage platform, administrators will likely upgrade that platform a number of times. By: Eric Burgener In defining upgrades, we’re specifically discussing within-system upgrades which include issues like firmware and software upgrades, applying software patches, and various types of hardware upgrades where relevant (e.g. controllers, storage devices, etc.). For storage platforms that host at
Reading Time-approximately: 7 minutesSystems that cannot be allowed to fail require fault tolerance. Learn about the systems and technology of fault tolerance and how your business can achieve it. Post by Paul Rubens, Fault tolerance is a concept used in many fields, but it is particularly important to data storage and information technology infrastructure. In this context, fault tolerance refers to the ability of
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