ConnectConverge – Page 26 – Connect Converge

Rethinking Support for Hybrid IT: An Inclusive, Relationship-Based, Tailored Approach

Hewlett Packard EnterpriseJuly 17, 20180204 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Hybrid IT is a “both-and” world. IT leaders think in terms of both on-premises infrastructure and cloud. They focus on keeping the data center operating smoothly at high levels of availability and at the same time reducing costs. They’re looking for ways to get more value out of their current IT investments and carve out infrastructure for innovative business services.

Successful digital transformations are built around this kind of flexible, inclusive, “both-x-and-y” thinking.…

Big Data Meets HCI–How South African Insurance Provider Gives Developers the Royal Treatment

DanaJuly 17, 20180193 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]How an insurance innovator built a modern hyperconverged infrastructure environment that rapidly replicates databases to accelerate developer agility.

Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to the next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer podcast series. I’m Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, your host and moderator for this ongoing discussion on digital transformation success stories. Stay with us now to learn how agile businesses are fending off disruption — in favor of innovation.…

Simplifying Hybrid IT for a Successful Digital Transformation

GaryMarch 17, 20180228 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]One size fits all was never a good idea for consumers buying clothing, and it certainly doesn’t work well for purchasing IT. That’s because every business is different. Each enterprise has unique business processes, security concerns, customer demands, and financial limitations. Because of these differences, enterprises worldwide are turning to a better IT strategy–hybrid IT.

Hybrid IT complexity slows digital transformation

Hybrid IT gives enterprises more options, letting them choose public cloud, private cloud, on-premises solutions – or a combination of all three.…

Why Renew Is Better Than New For You

Timothy MorganMarch 17, 20180214 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]There are always budgetary pressures in the IT business, and customers who want certain kinds of equipment quickly often can’t get the servers, storage, and switching that they need when they need it. Those shopping for gear made by Hewlett Packard Enterprise may not know it, but they can work with their HPE resellers and an upstream distributor called Synergy Associates to get equipment fast – and at a good price, too.…

Inside Story on HPC’s Role in Bridges Strategic Reasoning Research Project at CMU

DanaMarch 17, 20180188 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Transcript of a discussion on how Carnegie Mellon University researchers are advancing strategic reasoning and machine learning capabilities using the latest in high performance computing.

Dana Gardner: Hello, and welcome to the next edition of the BriefingsDirect Voice of the Customer podcast series. I’m Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, your host and moderator for this ongoing discussion on digital transformation success stories.…

Scale-up is Dead, Long Live Scale-out!

GravicMarch 17, 20180211 views

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Introduction

A perennial problem in the IT world is how to handle the ebb and flow of user demand for IT resources. What is adequate to handle the demand at 3am on Sunday is not going to be sufficient to cope with the demand at noon on Black Friday or Cyber Monday. One way or another, IT resources must be sufficiently elastic to handle this range of user demand – they must be able to scale.…

Education Corner

Kelly BaigMarch 17, 20180223 views

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In the Spring of 2017, Deloitte published their annual Human Capital Trends survey. In it, they reported that:

- Skills development is the #2 topic on the minds of CEOs and HR leaders
- 83% of organizations rate this topic as important
- 54% of organizations rate this topic as urgent

In contrast to this need, however, many organizations report having challenges with obtaining all of the technology training that their IT teams and technical professionals require.…

XYPRO and SailPoint Partner to Provide Identity Management for HPE NonStop

Steve TcherchianMarch 17, 20180243 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]XYPRO is thrilled to announce our Identity+ Alliance partnership with SailPoint, a proven leader in enterprise Identity Management.

Working closely with our customers and SailPoint, we are also excited to announce the general availability release of XYPRO’s newest solution, NonStop Identity Connector for SailPoint (XIC).

Using XIC, HPE NonStop customers can now integrate their NonStop servers with their SailPoint IdentityIQ, enabling seamless participation within the enterprise.…

HPE Greenlake Compute

Kitty ChowMarch 17, 20180204 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Compute power is moving closer to where the action is. After years of becoming increasingly concentrated at centralized locations – in data centers or in the cloud – it’s moving to the geographically dispersed locations where data is generated. It’s moving to factories, branch offices, oil rigs, cargo bays, maintenance facilities … anywhere there’s a need to rapidly convert data into insight and action.…

Don’t Fear a Laptop Ban: 6 Steps to Turn Your Smartphone into an In-Flight Computer

Beth ZiesenisMarch 17, 20180180 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What’s worse than a long flight for a frequent flyer? A long flight without a laptop… courtesy of a ban on electronics on planes.

Security officials have banned laptops and tablets on certain international flights, and more travelers could be impacted if the ban extends. But with a little planning, you can transform your smartphone into a powerful productivity tool that can (almost) replace your laptop.…