245 articles by Rolta|Advizex:
Few things move as fast as the IT industry. It was just a decade or so ago that CIOs were talking about virtual machines. Then in rapid succession came the cloud, converged infrastructure and now hyper-converged infrastructure.
Market disruption, it turns out, isn’t just something that happens to legitimate markets. Hackers experience it too.
They call it the “cloud” for a reason: It’s constantly moving and changing. If you haven’t kept up with the cloud lately, you’ve missed a lot, from cloud hybrids to containers.
HCI doesn’t displace the cloud in the data center, it complements it by providing a secure, scalable, on-premise platform.
Those who attended VMworld in Las Vegas this year saw a company that was leveraging its position as a market leader to shape the cloud of tomorrow.
Imagine moving each of these levers into the “on” or “off” position depending on your needs. The result would be a customized cloud, or what I call, cloud leverage.
As I discussed in my last blog, “The State of the Cloud,” the cloud conversation within enterprises has shifted from How should we do it? to Why should we do it?
Over the last few years, there’s been a lot of discussion around the different cloud strategies available (IaaS or SaaS? Public or private?), but the time for that discussion has passed.
The upcoming Dell and EMC merger has provided the industry with plenty of fodder for speculation.