
Tag: hybrid cloud
How Enterprises Can Defray the Hidden Cost of the Cloud
When the cloud became popular earlier this decade, conventional wisdom had it that the transition to an off-prem model would help enterprises become more agile, more competitive and reduce the cost of managing all their Read more…
Data in the Age of Stagflation: How Enterprises Can Do More with Less
Global data growth is exploding, accelerated by the growing number of people communicating, working, learning, and entertaining themselves from home and in distributed work environments. Let’s take a look at some numbe Read more…
Report: Despite Cloud Growth, Clear Skies Ahead for Hardware Spending
Cloud technologies are increasingly ubiquitous in business environments, with more and more previously on-prem services being delivered via cloud services rather than purchased hardware — particularly in support of rem Read more…
2022 Big Data Predictions from the Cloud
The pandemic marked an inflection point for the growth of cloud platforms in 2020, as organizations scrambled to keep their applications running. That general pattern has continued through 2021, and the cloud looms even Read more…
IBM Introduces its First Power10-based Server, the Power E1080; Targets Hybrid Cloud
IBM today introduced the Power E1080 server, its first system powered by a Power10 IBM microprocessor. The new system reinforces IBM’s emphasis on hybrid cloud markets and the new chip beefs up its inference capabiliti Read more…
Hands-Off: Manual Data Integration Tasks Plummeting, Gartner Says
While the need to integrate data has never been greater, the addition of machine learning and other forms of automation is driving a large reduction in the amount of manual data management tasks that human workers are re Read more…
Back to Basics: Big Data Management in the Hybrid, Multi-Cloud World
The promised fruits of advanced analytics and AI are driving organizations to get control of their data. They understand, correctly, that without solid data management and governance regimens in place, that becoming a da Read more…
Tackling Your Multicloud Strategy in Five Steps
The customers I speak with these days are typically dealing with two distinct yet related challenges. First, they’re having to store, manage and make sense of more data than ever before. Second, they have more options Read more…
2021: Cloudy with a (Very Good) Chance of AI and Analytics
As we entered 2020, the cloud was already on its way to becoming a defacto standard for running advanced analytics and AI for many organizations. Then COVID-19 happened, and the great cloud migration started to look like Read more…
Is DMaaS the Answer to Your Data Problems?
Data management as a service (DMaaS) is an emerging practice whereby a range of data-based services--including file and object serving, governance, security, backup/recovery, archiving, and dev/test provisioning--are del Read more…
Cloudera Delivers Private Cloud Amid Public Speculation of Sale
Cloudera today announced that it has begun a limited tech preview for the on-premise version of its enterprise data lake, called Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) Private Cloud, which is its first product to support Kubernete Read more…
Understanding Your Options for Multi- and Hybrid-Cloud Data Management
If your company is like most, it has multi-cloud or hybrid cloud aspirations. But how do you manage all your data in a secure and cohesive manner when it’s spread across multiple systems and locations? That’s a topic Read more…
Cloud Misconfigurations Spur DB ‘Repatriation’
Cloud database misconfigurations are among the fastest growing sources of data breaches over the last five years, according to an annual survey of data breaches. Those security concerns are among the reasons more ente Read more…
Google, Splunk Partner on Multi-Cloud Data
As cloud vendors seek to reduce data movement as a way of preserving network bandwidth and computing resources, they are also promoting greater cloud access to “holistic” data sets spawned by the increasing number of Read more…
Rubrik Tunes Upgrade to VMware Users
Rubrik, the multi-cloud data manager, unveiled the latest version of its Andes platform this week with upgrades aimed at technology partner VMware covering automated disaster recovery orchestration, data classification a Read more…
Google, Looker Eye Data Scaling via Multi-Cloud
Google Cloud has moved to buttress its position in the booming data analytics sector with its acquisition of data platform and visualization tool vendor Looker. Underscoring a trend among infrastructure vendors, Googl Read more…