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Dell Technologies aligns with enterprise directions

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon October 23, 2020in CIO, Cloud, Data, Edge1 Comment

Takeaways and areas to watch from Dell Technologies World 2020

Assessing the impact of the IBM leadership changes

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon February 6, 2020February 6, 2020in Business, Cloud, Data1 Comment

Last week, IBM announced a few significant leadership changes that put a lot of things in play. First, is IBM’s sheer leadership challenge as it pertains to culture. Second, is the impact to customers including existing IBM customers, Red Hat…

Amazon Web Services significantly escalates their enterprise game

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon December 13, 2019December 13, 2019in CloudLeave a comment

Last week marked the sixth Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent conference I have attended. While AWS has attracted the webscale and startup businesses in full force, the enterprise has been a bit of an enigma for AWS. This year at…

Mapping the AWS platform taxonomy that includes hybrid cloud

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon December 12, 2019December 12, 2019in Cloud1 Comment

One of the biggest challenges for AWS has been to adequately attract the massive, yet largely untapped, enterprise business. There are a number of reasons for this, one of which is AWS’ focus on only offering a public cloud solution.…

Charting the path forward for VMware

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon September 9, 2019September 24, 2019in Business, CIO, CloudLeave a comment

VMware has long served as a key partner for enterprises. For roughly two decades, their VM-based technology and management tools served as a solid base to support enterprise applications. Over the past decade, the enterprise applications have shifted in new…

Riverbed extends into the cloud

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon April 26, 2018April 26, 2018in Business, Cloud3 Comments

One of the most critical, but often overlooked components in a system is that of the network. Enterprises continue to spend considerable amounts of money on network optimization as part of their core infrastructure. Traditionally, enterprises have controlled much of…

Oracle works toward capturing enterprise Cloud IaaS demand

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon April 18, 2018April 18, 2018in Business, Cloud2 Comments

The enterprise cloud market is still shows a widely untapped potential. A significant portion of this potential comes from the demand generated by the legacy applications that are sitting in the myriad of corporate data centers. The footprint from these…

Delphix smartly reduces the friction to access data

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon April 17, 2018April 17, 2018in Business, Cloud, Data1 Comment

Today’s CIO is looking for ways to untap the potential in their company’s data. We have heard the phrase that data is the new oil. Except that data, like oil, is just a raw material. Ultimately, we need to refine…

Four expectations for AWS re:Invent

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon November 27, 2017in CloudLeave a comment

This week brings Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) annual re:Invent conference where thousands will descend upon Las Vegas to learn about cloud and the latest in AWS innovations. Having attended the conference for several years now, there are a number of…

The difference between Hybrid and Multi-Cloud for the Enterprise

Posted by Tim M. Crawfordon October 17, 2017October 17, 2017in CIO, Cloud8 Comments

Cloud computing still presents the single biggest opportunity for enterprise companies today. Even though cloud-based solutions have been around for more than 10 years now, the concepts related to cloud continue to confuse many. Of late, it seems that Hybrid…