As IT demands mount, IT organizations simply no longer have the luxury of spending resources to verify every vendor promise. Systems just need to work, while delivering a future free from costly data migrations. As a response, IT vendors have begun to offer guarantees in performance, guarantees in data reduction rates, guarantees in data deduplication,
Midrange customers demand performance, reliability, and scalability but also prize ease of use and low cost as virtual administrators take on more comprehensive IT infrastructure management responsibilities. Midrange enterprise storage offerings have evolved to deliver much of the functionality of larger enterprise arrays at a lower price point, and the Dell EMC Solutions powered by
Hear from Gartner’s Noha Tohamy in this webinar about the challenges organizations face when adopting AI.
Cloud platform services are increasing in capabilities and richness, making cloud platform services the optimal pathway to attaining cloud value. Gartner predicts that cloud platforms will inevitably rise in prominence in 2018 as CIOs and IT leaders recognize the importance of aligning cloud application strategies and processes with cloud platform strengths. Read this Gartner report
With a multitude of customer engagement channels today, it is difficult for companies to know where to focus their efforts. Contact centers are trying, but failing, to modernize and deliver on the evolving expectations of today’s customers. This paper looks at the barriers which prevent companies delivering omni-channel service and then goes on to look
NetApp posed questions that customers ask most often about hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to analyst Eric Sheppard, research director for IDC’s Enterprise Storage and Converged Infrastructure practice. Read this report for his answers to help you better understand the rapidly changing hyperconverged market..
Via a recent study, IDC sought to measure the business value of refreshing the server infrastructure in enterprise IT departments and therefore the impact on business outcomes. Study participants described specific, recent server refreshes, like Dell EMC PowerEdge Servers, powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum processor, that have: Enabled the business to convert opportunities into revenue
Dell EMC hyper-converged infrastructure AEW Energie in Switzerland uses hyper-converged infrastructure to cut management time and free up staff to focus on specialised tasks.AEW Energie wanted personnel to focus more time on specialised tasks instead of maintaining and managing the existing IT infrastructure. Complexity drives the need for change. AEW Energie faced challenges with the
Hyper-converged IT infrastructure As data-driven organizations seek to increase performance while lowering the cost of database applications, they also face the challenge of extracting analytical insights from rapidly growing quantities of data. At the same time, many IT organizations are planning upgrades to Microsoft SQL Server 2016, even as their IT budgets remain flat or
Value achieving with hyper-converged solutions IDC’s interviews with organizations using Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure solutions and Dell XC hyper-converged appliances powered by Nutanix software (Dell XC) to run key business applications highlighted the value they are achieving with these hyper-converged solutions. IDC projects that, on average, these organizations’ use of IT solutions powered by Nutanix software