Category: Infrastructure

Your infrastructure still needs work, even if you move every asset to the cloud. You still need a company network and maybe even some local storage server(s) to handle the basic office workload. Managing infrastructure and choosing the right solution for your office, or even for your own datacenter, requires the right information.

Many companies still operate at least two infrastructures: the first one is their office network, the second one is their datacenter. Within the new cloud era, maybe one of them will disappear, but you cannot replace all your infrastructure. At the other end, maybe a new infrastructure will take its place, if you are moving into the Internet of Things for example.

Enterprise Storage

If you have a lot of data that needs to be available fast or if you need fast storage in your datacenter you cannot do this without an enterprise storage solution: solutions Cisco, Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp, Nutanix and many others can offer you. However, how do you pick the right one?

Servers

Running your own datacenter is still a common use case. In the future, many big IT vendors, like AWS, expect that companies will limit their own datacenters to a minimum, but before that, it just is a fact that you need servers. Servers that can carry your workload and if its possible, more intelligent server that can be combined. For example, a hyper-converged infrastructure that can be extended when you need more resources, instead of buying plain old servers. Companies want a more intelligent, maybe even a leased datacenter solution, or a completely autonomous datacenter which is virtualised by VMware.

Network

Managing your own infrastructure is only possible with a high-quality network. Putting a switch between a couple of servers and plugging in the network cable is easy. However, that’s yesterdays innovation. You want a software-defined network, where you can easily manage all devices that are connected to your network, and where you can manage who is allowed to talk to who. This ensures that security is implemented at the highest level.

IoT

Within many infrastructures a new innovation will come in, maybe it already is in place or maybe its on the way. The Internet of Things will connect devices to the internet which never had a connection in the past. So, they can be monitored or managed remotely. For example, industry machines get connected or sensors are being added to legacy devices to monitor them more frequently. In some markets, the IoT will revolutionise the way business is being done. In agriculture, crops can grow much faster by optimising the complete process. Sensors are added to the soil and continuously measure what can be done to improve conditions.

Fortinet wants to dominate the enterprise networking business

Fortinet wants to dominate the enterprise networking business

Fortinet is the market leader in network security, but the company sees a considerable acceleration in its growth. This clearly increases ambition. If it were up to Fortinet, they would secure the entire network and provide it with hardware, so that a complete Security Fabric of Fortinet would be p... Read more

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HPE buys supercomputer specialist Cray for $1.3 billion

HPE buys supercomputer specialist Cray for $1.3 billion

What was a rumour yesterday is now being confirmed by the two HPC manufacturers: HPE is taking over Cray. Together they will become the second largest party in the Top 500 list of supercomputers. In total, HPE pays $1.3 billion for Cray. This morning the news broke through that HPE and Cray would b... Read more

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US blacklists Chinese manufacturer Huawei for trade

US blacklists Chinese manufacturer Huawei for trade

The government of US President Donald Trump has added the Chinese company Huawei to a blacklist for trade. This makes it very difficult for the telecom giant to do business with American companies. The U.S. Commerce Department established a rule whereby Huawei and 68 related companies in more than ... Read more

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Qlik and Data Literacy Project come with diploma for data literacy

Qlik and Data Literacy Project come with diploma for data literacy

The Data Literacy Project has introduced a first globally recognized diploma, which allows people to demonstrate their data literacy. The free certification was developed by Qlik scientists and specialists. Launched in October 2018 by Qlik, Accenture, Cognizant, Experian, Pluralsight, Chartered Ins... Read more

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Nutanix expands infrastructure solution into a versatile platform

Nutanix expands infrastructure solution into a versatile platform

Nutanix has recently added many new services to its Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) solution. This is a reason for us to take stock of the situation at the European edition of the .NEXT conference, which took place in London this year. Exactly one year ago, on .NEXT, we were told that Nutanix ... Read more

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Huawei launches database with AI capabilities for enterprises

Huawei launches database with AI capabilities for enterprises

Huawei focuses more on the enterprise market with a whole new database management product. It's GausseDB, a data base that uses artificial intelligence capabilities to improve tuning performance by over 60 percent. With the new product, Huawei, especially known for its smartphones and telecom equip... Read more

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VMware expands multi-client strategy with Bitnami acquisition

VMware expands multi-client strategy with Bitnami acquisition

VMware has decided to expand its multicloud strategy by acquiring Bitnami. Bitnami is a prominent name in the developer ecosystem. The company offers ready-to-use versions of popular open source applications. Bitnami has a free library of open source applications, all of which have been optimized b... Read more

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Confluent makes Apache Kafka cloud-native with new pricing model

Confluent makes Apache Kafka cloud-native with new pricing model

Confluent makes the open source event streaming platform Apache Kafka cloud-native. Confluent Cloud, which until recently was the company's PaaS offering for Kafka, now offers a new consumption-based pricing model. There are no requirements for minimum use. The news was announced at the Kafka Summit... Read more

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