Accelerating the Business Value of Flash Storage: A Practical Guide for IT Decision-Makers
In recent years, flash has been recognized as the optimal technology to support today’s data-driven businesses. Early adopters are realizing gains in productivity, end user satisfaction, and cost-efficiency, compared with traditional storage. That’s why many businesses recognize that an all-flash data center is in their future.
In this white paper, we will examine the storage challenges faced by businesses. We consider the case for the all-flash data center, discuss the importance of a flash-optimized data protection strategy, and provide tips for gaining support from business leaders for your vision.
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THE MULTI-CLOUD MAZE: 5 principles for success
Just as virtualization revolutionized IT infrastructure, the rise of the cloud has changed the playing field again.
Organizations must now grow and pivot with previously unimagined agility. Enticed by the promises of the cloud, businesses of all sizes are racing toward digital transformation. A recent Prophet report says that market pressures are the leading drivers of digital transformation as most eforts are spurred by growth opportunities (51%) and increased competitive pressure (41%)1 . High-profile data breach scandals and new regulator ...
State of DevOps 2019 Report
We’re on our eighth year of publishing the State of DevOps Report, the longest-standing and most widely referenced DevOps research on the planet. Last year’s survey results revealed an evolutionary model of DevOps that helps us better understand how organizations start with DevOps and scale successfully. Our objective was to provide pragmatic, prescriptive guidance for organizations struggling to achieve success with DevOps. ...
BUILD A BETTER CLOUD: UNDERSTANDING YOUR OPTIONS FOR A SMART MIGRATION STRATEGY
Global adoption of the cloud is accelerating at a dizzying rate each year with businesses of all sizes realizing the cost-saving, flexibility, and scalability benefits of migrating and running applications in the cloud. In our 2019 State of Application Services report, 87% of respondents reported having multicloud architectures.
As pressure to move applications to cloud and hybrid environments intensifies, IT teams must grapple with sometimes significant migration challenges. Though each migration is different, there are several common consi ...
Software-Defined Storage — Opportunities for the Enterprise
IDC believes that software-defined storage (SDS) continues to transform IT deployment and consumption of storage resources. For enterprises, SDS is really an on-ramp to deploying a hybrid cloud — one that allows a metered on-demand consumption of private and public cloud resources. Deploying SDS therefore is not a question of "if" but a question of "when." IDC's August 2015 Software-Defined Infrastructure Survey found that 75% of enterprises have deployed or are considering deploying some form of SDS in their environment.
For such enterpris ...
The Case for SDS - An IDC Infographic, Sponsored by IBM
Why SDS?
SDS is key to deploying a hybrid cloud for metered, on-demand consumption of private/public cloud resources. Enterprises generally have a positive awareness and acceptance of SDS. ...
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Hybrid Cloud Data Protection Benefits
Hybrid cloud computing environments are here today and represent the future for deploying IT...