Equinix, a provider of hosted IT services, added an Equinix Metal offering that allows IT teams to automate the deployment of bare-metal servers. Interest in deploying bare-metal servers is increasing due to the rise of both artificial intelligence (AI) applications that are compute-intensive and Kubernetes clusters that, in many cases, don’t require the overhead created […]
The Increased Role of Colocation Providers in Data Centers
You would be hard-pressed to find something more complex than a modern data center. A state-of-the-art building stocked with all the necessary software for a major company might run into billions in costs if you decide to build and operate your own from the ground up. Even though many pundits had predicted data centers would […]
Survey Finds More Data Disruption Occurring
A global survey of 1,000 IT decision-makers with more than 250 employees conducted by Dell Technologies finds on average organizations managed 13.53 petabytes (PB) of data in 2019, a nearly 40% increase since 2018. The same survey also finds that as the amount of data has increased, so, too, has the cost of downtime. Those […]
vArmour CEO: Cloud Security Needs Simplicity
Cloud computing promised cost savings and simplified IT management, among other things. In many ways, the cloud has lived up to its ideals, and in other ways, such as API security, shadow IT and the securing of clouds across hybrid environments, the cloud has proven challenging. To get a sense of how enterprises and security […]
Predictions 2020: Application Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
Without wheeling out all the usual clichés, 2019 has been another whirlwind of disruptive innovation and opportunity–with plenty of challenges to tackle and circumvent along the way. The threat landscape mutated with predictable unpredictability, multi-cloud app deployments are becoming mainstream fixtures and DevOps methodologies started exerting a newfound influence on business plans. The big question […]
Growing Pains for Containers, Data Centers Call for Better Management
Containers have taken the tech community by storm with their ability to drive agile and effective innovation. Compared to the rigid nature of virtual machines, it’s no wonder developers and IT teams have flocked to containers and their flexibility. By dropping the strict hardware focus of virtual machines, containers are allowing teams to surface innovation […]
5 Trends Transforming Digital and IT Operations Management
In 2018, digital transformation ushered in a radical shift in how enterprises harness customer insights, technology capabilities and rapid experimentation to drive revenue growth, profitability and market leadership. Enterprises spent $1.3 trillion in 2018 on digital transformation technologies such as public cloud platforms, microservices and containers, edge computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence to improve […]
Is NoOps the Future of Cloud Networking?
As enterprises move more of their applications, data and operations to the cloud, competitive success becomes increasingly about speed. If the answer to a request to spin up and connect a new virtual cloud or deploy a new application across your hybrid cloud is “no,” or, “It will take us three months,” that’s a problem. […]
Mirantis Modeling Tool Extends SDI Scope and Reach
Mirantis has added a modeling tool to its portfolio that enables users to allocate IT infrastructure that has been distributed across multiple data centers to a common set of workloads. Company CEO Adrian Ionel said the latest edition of the Mirantis Cloud Platform (MCP) for building provide clouds on OpenStack or Kubernetes platforms now includes […]
Case Study: DevOps Key to AWS Cloud Migration
DevOps practices halved the time it took this SaaS company to migrate to AWS Australia-based Whispir provides communications applications as a service. One of its goals is to get products into users’ hands as soon as possible, and that requires development, operations and product staff working together, said Jonathan Swift, head of product and operations. […]