Dell Technologies today launched a revamped midrange storage platform that takes advantage of NVMe interfaces and solid-state drives (SSDs) to deliver 7x the performance of previous Dell EMC PowerStore platforms, in addition to allowing applications to run locally on an instance of a VMware virtual machine. Ben Jastrab, senior manager for storage product marketing at […]
HPE Extends Reach of GreenLake Central
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) has made available HPE GreenLake Central, a self-service portal through which IT teams can collaboratively manage and monitor instances of servers deployed in IT environments that are managed by HPE on their behalf. At its core, HPE GreenLake is a managed service that allows IT organizations to pay for IT infrastructure on […]
Laying the Foundation for a Successful Digital Future
Digital infrastructure is under mounting pressure from a variety of powerful technology trends. Whether that pressure stems from DevOps, the cloud, AI, mobile or big data, almost every organization is looking to the future with an eye on modernizing their mission-critical IT systems. Unfortunately, the challenge of future-proofing IT infrastructure is often exacerbated by the […]
How to Upgrade Critical IT Infrastructure with Zero Impact
Modern problems require modern solutions. A problem might come up that your software isn’t equipped to handle. This is why enterprises around the globe are spending billions of dollars more today than they did a decade ago. It’s never a good idea to leave anything to chance, especially if we’re talking about essential software. Keeping […]
Lenovo Looks to Automate Edge Computing
Lenovo is extending its IT automation framework for provisioning IT infrastructure out to edge computing platforms. Charles Ferland, vice president and general manager for networking and communications service providers at Lenovo Data Center Group, said the Lenovo Open Cloud Automation (LOC-A) framework provides a single pane of glass through which IT teams can not only […]
Decoding the Modern Enterprise Software Spaghetti
Modern enterprise software architecture is growing increasingly complex. Organizations are jumping on the digital transformation bandwagon in growing numbers. They are striving to become more agile and continuously deliver new code, whether on-premises or to support cloud migration efforts. In the process, IT teams are amassing an ever-growing inventory of applications and databases, which generally […]
Does Agile Methodologies Work for IT Infra?
Recently, I had a fascinating conversation with my old friend Joe–the name has been changed but the conversation is real and unedited–an IT Infrastructure program manager from a large IT service provider. After a bit of chit-chat on weather and football, we started talking about infrastructure in a typical large enterprise. Joe: I am not […]
Cisco Extends Ansible Support to Advance DevOps
Cisco Systems announced today that it is further embracing the open source Ansible automation framework on its storage area network (SAN) platform as part of an effort to extend best DevOps practices to IT infrastructure. The latest version of the Cisco MDS 9700 platform modules automates tasks such as VSAN configuration, device-alias and zoning configuration. […]
DevOps: ‘Tidying Up’ Your Cloud for Greater Value
Have you watched Netflix lately? Even if you haven’t, you may have heard of the phenomenon that is Marie Kondo, a tidying consultant who helps families organize their lives to reduce wasted space, material items and time. While watching her carefully organize peoples’ closets, I began to draw parallels between this process and cloud management. […]
Red Hat Tightens CloudForms Integration with Ansible
Red Hat has tightened integration between CloudForms, its tool for managing IT infrastructure on-premises and in the cloud, and the its Ansible framework for automating IT operations. Pete Cruz, product marketing manager for management for Red Hat, said version 4.7 of Red Hat CloudForms and Ansible together promise to make it easier to manage multiple […]