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Your biggest barriers to digital transformation aren’t technical…they’re cultural

CIO

In comparison, there were only 66 years between the Wright brothers’ first flight and humans landing on the moon (See belief #1). Overcoming growing pains Most organizations are built with hub-and-spoke networks connecting their locations to centralized data centers. As mentioned, we had to do this because it was the only way.

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IT services spending signals major role change for CIOs ahead

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increase in data center systems spending, demonstrating an uptick for on-premises strategies buoyed in part by ongoing scrutiny of cloud costs and returns on cloud investments among IT leaders. Gartner forecasts software to overtake the near stagnant communications services sector for the No. 2 IT spending slot by 2028.

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A Comparison of the VMware Cloud Solutions

The CTO Advisor

VMware cloud … The post A Comparison of the VMware Cloud Solutions appeared first on The CTO Advisor. It gets the entire enterprise IT industry focused on my favorite topic, Hybrid-infrastructure. Hybrid-infrastructure is an operating model vs. a physical location.

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What’s New and What’s Next in 2023 for HPC

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As leaders in the HPC industry, we are worried about how to cool these data centers. Many are looking at innovative data center designs including modular centers and colocation. Deployed successfully around the globe, liquid cooling is becoming essential to future proofing data centers.

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IT Modernization With a Sustainability Edge

CIO

As businesses and enterprises expand horizontally or vertically, they add to their IT estate whether that is through cloud or private data centers,” notes Nalini Manuru, Business Development Manager at IBM. “As In fact, self-owned data centers and IT equipment are a major source of energy usage and carbon emissions for enterprises.

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Practical advice to optimize savings with cloud migrations

CIO

The “unanticipated” costs of not doing the prep work are legion: egress charges, (semi-) failed moves, moving the wrong things/combinations at the wrong times, failure to capture service costs pre-move for comparison, and so many more. CPetersen_CS Sacolick pointed out such issues are not exactly unique to the cloud.

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comdivision: Business Needs Should Drive IT, Not The Other Way Around

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Earning even one VMware Master Services Competency is difficult – comdivision earned Master Service Competencies in Cloud Management and Automation, Cloud-Native Apps, Data Center Virtualization, Digital Workspace, Network Virtualization, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud Foundation, and Software-Defined Wide Area Network, (SD-WAN).