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Data Center Modernization - Transforming Data Center Focus from Infrastructure to Information

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

While the acronym IT stands for Information Technology and is synonymous with the data center, in reality the focus of IT has often been more on infrastructure since infrastructure represented the bulk of a data center’s capital and operational costs. The answer lies in a smart approach to data center modernization.

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Seeking Sustainable IT? Use Data Virtualization

TIBCO - Connected Intelligence

That means 85% of data growth results from copying data you already have. Granted, you need backups, but even if you back up all your new data twice, you still consume 50% more energy to store all the other extra copies. The primary driver behind data’s growth is business’ reliance on data as fuel for analytical insight.

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Top 10 business needs driving IT spending today

CIO

Companies that used to be able to put the virtual brick walls around the building and say they’re secure on the inside now have too many openings — to the cloud, partners, customers, employees — for that strategy to be viable.”. It’s not about cost control; instead, we talk about investments for value.

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Unpacking Murray & Roberts’ turbulent journey to the cloud and back again

CIO

I think the first red flag was the age of the equipment in our primary and secondary data centers. So what systems are in place now in M&R’s on-premises data center? CIO.com: What motivated Murray & Roberts to embark on its original cloud journey? Then, a year and half later, we wanted to jump ship.

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Digital Transformation Requires an Agile Storage Infrastructure

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

In order for companies to be more agile in responding to changing customer needs and market dynamics, they must have a storage infrastructure that makes data available at the right time, at the right place and in the right format, so that they can derive value from it and turn raw data into insights that drive business outcomes.

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5 Ways Moving to Edtech Cloud Hosting Can Benefit Your District

PowerSchool

Cloud hosting can help protect your data from both physical security failures and virtual cybersecurity attacks, with 24/7/365 monitoring and up to 99.9% But continuing to host data on-premise can be more expensive in the long run. Additionally, cloud-hosted environments are more scalable and agile than on-premise servers.

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Cloud-Native Applications: Principles, Benefits, and Best Practices

Altexsoft

Using the cloud is not the end, but taking it to the next level with cloud-native applications is better to take advantage of the enhanced agility, availability, scalability, and general performance. It works similarly to virtual machines (VMs) and is highly flexible for running operations smoothly. What is a Cloud-Native Application?