C2 Fall 2020

Five steps to transform to on-premises cloud services

Not all applications can be run in the public cloud. Here's how to get the cloud to come to you. By now, the benefits of the cloud are well known: reduced costs, improved scalability, increased efficiency, and more agility. But not all enterprise applications, workloads, and data are suited for it. Compliance and security issues prevent moving some to the public cloud, while complex dependencies among applications won't allow others to run there. In some cases, it is financially unfeasible or impractical to move them.
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Editor’s Letter – Fall 2020

Perspective is a funny thing these days. In the long run, no matter how much life has changed, I hope we all have the opportunity to learn something new, brush up on a skill set and throw in a few random acts of kindness. I love the quote by Emerson because it says that difficult times are small compared to the determination within us.
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Around The Storage Block

We spend a lot of time and energy talking about HPE Primera and HPE Nimble Storage – for good reason as I really believe they are the best one-two punch of mid-range and Tier-0 mission critical storage in the industry.
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Working—and Thriving—in the Age of Digital Transformation

In the past decade, we’ve experienced a global acceleration of digital transformation as many things that we once did in-person are now routinely done online—communicating, shopping, dating, finding entertainment, and applying for jobs, to name a few. One area that has undergone a particularly dramatic change is employment as people’s desires (and fears) around working from home have been realized, either by choice or by mandate.
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Möbius Partners Success Story: Improving Cluster Management and System Updates

Recently Möbius Partners worked with a client who lacked high-performance computing (HPC) cluster manageability tools that resulted in non-standardized operating systems and patching inconsistencies. This customer entrusted our team to provide a solution that would be “easy to use and manage” by their own staff. To overcome these challenges, our team first redeployed HPC with HPE Cluster Management Utility (CMU), which enabled the client to manage multiple images and cluster resources with a standard operating system.…

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Software development reset – A remote DevOps epiphany

No aspect of society seems able to escape being altered by the tragic outbreak of COVID-19. The now well-known slogan “Stay-at-Home” has given rise to a future where working from home has become the norm rather than the exception. Even the IT sector has felt its impact. New ways of working and collaborating are being quickly deployed and implemented. Many organizations are learning they need to re-engineer business and IT processes and how they are consumed in order to adapt.…

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AI: Living on the Edge

Every day, new users join a growing group of consumers of Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications. Innovative applications such as voice assistants, self-driving cars, smart cities are all contributing to the democratization of AI. The amount of data generated from those applications, as well as wireless devices such as phones and tablets, is staggering.
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