Tag: Strategy

March 8, 2019

In his conversation with General Manager of IBM Hybrid Cloud Services Jim Comfort, InformationWeek’s Joao-Pierre S. Ruth asked a big question: what sets IBM apart from other cloud services? Throughout the interview, Comfort stressed that one of the key components […]

September 10, 2018

With more than 150,000 customers in 150 countries around the world, Rackspace has a front row seat to the unprecedented and accelerating change facing companies of all sizes, with all the opportunities and threats that change represents. Driven by the […]

August 28, 2018

Make no mistake about it: An organization’s employees are its biggest data-security liabilities. This can be true even of the most loyal and honest personnel, who may nevertheless fall victim to social engineering attacks, such as phishing, or allow their […]

August 27, 2018

Accounting for nearly half of the private workforce, the small-to-medium-sized enterprise (SME) community is the launch pad for the world’s most transformative ideas. Airbnb, Uber and Amazon all belonged to the SME team at one point, and each year the […]

July 30, 2018

Channel partners and cloud-computing providers were slow to embrace one another. Some partners – perhaps especially MSPs – were skeptical about the considerably different pay-as-you-go model of public-cloud infrastructure. And in their gold-rush phase, some of the big public-cloud providers […]

July 17, 2018

Imagine you’re a top 50 MSP 501 company that caters to financial services firms that need exacting vertical market expertise, comprehensive insights on regulatory compliance and superior technological integration and development skills. What do you think would be the fastest […]

July 10, 2018

NetApp doesn’t want you to think of it as just an on-premises storage provider. Nor its partners. NetApp executives tell Channel Futures that while the company remains invested in traditional “big iron storage,” the market is mature. Meantime, customers are […]

June 14, 2018

By the time the technology reaches maturity and universal adoption, early adopters have already begun looking for ways to enhance and diversify their use of said technology and extend their competitive advantage. We are seeing this today with cloud, as […]

April 19, 2018

Bankers Confident in the Integrity of Data Driving Business Decisions, but Half Aren’t Doing Enough to Verify and Validate that data, According to Accenture Report NEW YORK; April 19, 2018 – A new report from Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has found […]

April 13, 2018

Ask a group of IT leaders to define what a hybrid cloud is, and their answers are likely to be as diverse as the companies they work for. Once a black-and-white definition describing organizations with a mix of apps that […]

April 3, 2018

The paths to cloud computing are not all the same. Although many enterprises aggressively use cloud computing to change how they do business, others are just trying to save 20 or 30 percent in ops costs. When it coes to […]

February 23, 2018

Juniper Networks on Thursday announced an expanded portfolio for a secure multicloud computing strategy that includes the data center, campus, branch office and cloud. The new products are designed to help businesses put the infrastructure pieces in place to be ready […]

September 22, 2016

Cloud outages are a dreadful perspective to contemplate when businesses have trusted their data storage, computing operations and communications to public or hybrid cloud service providers. Of course, private cloud (and by this we mean on-premises) can also suffer outages, […]

September 12, 2016

The wealth manager to Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg and other technology entrepreneurs is starting a unit to invest in data centers to profit from growing demand for cloud-based services. Iconiq Capital, the San Francisco-based investment adviser run by Divesh […]

June 30, 2016

In our digital age this fact holds true: innovation is the result of a collective effort; of enterprise-wide collaboration based on a full understanding of goals and context. The more easily a business can collaborate, the more likely it is […]

May 24, 2016

IT professionals are under increasing pressure to deliver an advanced, coordinated IT capability across all sites in a business, no matter how remote or how small. But, as always, this must be achieved without putting further strain on already overstretched […]

May 6, 2016

Cloud entry strategy has been top of mind in IT organizations for years. Now that the industry has reached a level of maturity—with multiple players and offerings—the need for an exit strategy has emerged. Fredrik Forslund is the director of […]

April 11, 2016

From EMC’s CEO purporting to have the solution that will change the game, to VMware’s assertion that it is already leading the industry, their move on the market which is growing at more than 150 per cent annually, comes with […]