Server manufacturers have long recognised the niche in public cloud computing that physical servers neatly fill. This has evolved over time to IT leaders and the industry recognising that some workloads will always be run on-premise; some may run both on the public cloud and on-premise; and some may be wholly cloud-based. Artificial intelligence (AI)…
When it comes to managing data, we need to know where it is – but we also need to know what it is. With the rise in regulatory controls, enterprises now pay more attention to data sovereignty, especially when it comes to data in the cloud, but to know exactly what information they hold is…
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NetApp will maintain its big push towards data management for artificial intelligence (AI) workloads and took the opportunity to explain that move at its Insight 2024 event in Las Vegas this week. Core to that is data management via a global metadata namespace in its Ontap storage operating system that aims to make corporate data…
The major enterprise resource planning (ERP) providers have all embarked on a strategy to provide functionality in their product suites to help their customers monitor and manage the environmental impact of their operations. This is being driven by new regulations on climate change and organisations acknowledging that reducing their carbon footprint has business benefits. At…
Overspending awaits the unwary when managing heterogeneous IT environments incorporating on-premise software, cloud apps and software as a service (SaaS), even as software asset management (SAM) continues to adapt, evolving beyond mere inventory audits. According to Kumaravel Ramakrishnan, IT service management (ITSM) marketing director at ManageEngine, which develops various IT management offerings, SAM remains a…
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It has been widely reported that Broadcom has set its sights on VMware’s 1,500 most profitable customers. In organisations that spend less, negotiating new contracts may be difficult and costly, given that the new pricing bundles for VMware include products some IT departments may never use. This has been combined with a switch to a…
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It would seem that the adoption of cloud databases – those delivered via a cloud consumption model – is ramping up. Referred to as dbPaaS (database platform as a service) by analyst Gartner, the market for cloud databases is dominated by public cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, Oracle and Alibaba are among…
Hybrid multicloud storage is intended to create the best of all worlds. By mixing on-premise technology with multiple public cloud resources, enterprises hope to optimise the attributes of each with regard to pricing, capacity, performance, features, security and resilience. The challenge is to create a coherent storage architecture out of multiple technologies rather than a…
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The cloud holds a large – and growing – percentage of enterprise data. While much of this growth comes from unstructured information, such as documents and media files, enterprises also still depend on structured data, stored in databases. The global market for databases grew by 12.8% last year, according to analysts at Gartner, and…
Computex keynote season is kicking into high gear this morning with the show’s leading keynote, which is being delivered by AMD. Company CEO Dr. Lisa Su will be presenting a keynote entitled “The future of high-performance computing in the AI era,” and with a run time of 90 minutes, we’re expecting AMD to have a…
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