Big ideas are commonplace in the IT industry but they take on even larger roles at vendors’ annual customer and partner conferences. That was certainly the case at the recent Dell EMC World 2017 in Las Vegas. For the 13,500 […]
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If your organization has already adopted a DevOps strategy, then congrats—you’re already strides ahead of other companies by choosing to invest in collaborative, productive approaches to advancing your project processes. However, as objectives and tasks within a project shift over
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Reducing or eliminating complexity and risk are critical issues in the IT industry, especially when it comes to emerging technologies. Doing so is important for both short and long term strategies since success often leads customers into trying on new
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Tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Square and Venmo have been moving into payments over the past several years, dramatically changing the way consumers pay for things. Checks and cash are fading as people increasingly pay using their phones or take
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While Lenovo’s server effort isn’t new, its ability to scale it certainly is and arrived with acquisition of IBM’s struggling X86 unit. Integrating the two units took time but the bigger issue for an effort focused on the enterprise is
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Like the other 125+ industry analysts attending the recent IBM InterConnect 2017 conference in Las Vegas, I attended various keynote speeches, partner panels, product updates and client meetings, but I found two sessions with IBM executives particularly interesting. The first
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Watch the IT industry long enough and you develop a healthy skepticism for anything labeled “new” or “unique” but now and then something thoroughly different than most anything that has gone before comes along. A few cases offer such clear
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HPE’s plan to buy SimpliVity for $650M says as much about HPE as it does the market for software-defined infrastructure (SDN) solutions. There are solid financial reasons for the deal, as noted in HPE’s announcement; market research suggests sales of
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Storage vendors have endured tough times lately. Why so? First, because of commoditization pressures affecting storage components and hardware margins. Second, due to the success public cloud players like AWS, Google and Microsoft are enjoying with bargain basement consumers and
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There are times when I truly wonder if boards are staffed with idiots. The contrast between NVIDIA and Yahoo is stark. NVIDIA is a hardware-based company in an internet world and Yahoo is one of the founding internet companies, yet
