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CIO
How Impactful Is VMware’s New Core-Limited Licensing?
This week, VMware announced new licensing restrictions for vSphere, which I wrote about here. I wanted to get more understanding for how impactful this change would be for existing customers. On today’s ActualTech Media EcoCast, I asked our audience for two pieces of information. The first a… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
VMware’s Licensing Change Redux: Better the Second Time Around
The year was 2011. I was comfortably ensconced in my office at Westminster College watching as VMware brought out a marketing executive to discuss the company’s revolutionary new licensing program. As soon as I saw that it was a marketing person giving the news about a change in licensing, I thoug… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
How to Make Enterprise Software Training More Efficient
Whether its for the IT department or for HR, employee training is essential in the modern workplace. At one time, flying employees to expensive, instructor-led training was the norm. In recent years, however, budgetary concerns have driven many organizations either to adopt video-based training as a… Read More
By Brien Posey -
CIO
The Great Slack to Teams Migration: 1 Year Later
On a fateful day in August 2018, we made the decision to extricate ourselves from Slack and jump headfirst into Microsoft Teams. I’ve previously written about our early experiences here and here. It was September of 2018 when we officially cut over from Slack to Teams, but we’d been doing a… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
HPE Wants to SaaSify All the Clouds
Will you be satisfied if everything is SaaSified? You’ll eventually be able to find out thanks to HPE’s GreenLake. HPE GreenLake is a service from HPE that enables a consumption-based model for the services offered under the program. As time goes on HPE is adding more products and services… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
360in180: Scale Computing Goes Small to Get Big with Hyperconverged Infrastructure
There’s an interesting strategy at play in the world of hyperconverged infrastructure from Scale Computing. Whereas a lot of its competitors are looking to go big in all things, Scale's looking to go big by going small. I had the opportunity to talk to Scale about a recent announcement. This w… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Robin.io Inks Partnership with Google Cloud to Transform Kubernetes Storage
If you’re a developer in 2019, you’re aware of containers and if you’re aware of containers, you’re likely either using or considering using Kubernetes, the container orchestration platform that has quickly and handily won the container orchestration wars. Created by Google, Kubernetes is… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Predictability: The King of Infrastructure Outcomes
Workload performance predictability is a critical consideration but does it run contrary to the current trend toward infrastructure simplification? I'll start by highlighting the two topics I'm discussing in this article: Simplicity: As organizations seek to redeploy IT talent to more busines… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Intel Data-Centric Innovation Day: A Live View
9:35 AM: We're getting a bit of a late start. Bob Swan, Intel CEO, is giving us an introduction before the main event starts. He's discussing the transformation of Intel from a PC-centric company to a Data-centric one, which explains the name of today's event. Data-centric computing represe… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
PanelCast Recap: The Enterprise IT Landscape in 2019
Those working in the world of enterprise IT maintain a delicate balance between what is and what will be. Most CIOs have one foot in the data center and one in the future, and that can be tricky when it comes to anticipating not only new services and new technologies to implement, but also the clima… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
PanelCast 2019 Predictions: Accelerating Pace of Change in IT
The speed at which innovation is expected is driving the need for containers, serverless, etc. What does this mean for how organizations view the role of IT? [su_note note_color="#e1f2ed"]This blog post was created following ActualTech Media's inaugural PanelCast event, held in December of 2018. … Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
PanelCast 2019 Predictions: The Rise of Edge Computing
Edge computing appears to be the next big area for growth. How do you think it will play a role in enterprise architecture in 2019? [su_note note_color="#e1f2ed"]This blog post was created following ActualTech Media's inaugural PanelCast event, held in December of 2018. This event addressed 2019… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
PanelCast 2019 Predictions: Hyperconvergence and the Next Wave of Systems Integration
Hyperconvergence has become a force unto itself. What comes after HCI? Is it extensions that turn HCI into a broader platform or is it a whole new architecture altogether? [su_note note_color="#e1f2ed"]This blog post was created following ActualTech Media's inaugural PanelCast event, held in Dece… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
PanelCast 2019 Predictions: A Sustained and Deeper Focus on Security
Security incidents seem to be the daily news these days. As multi-cloud environments take center stage, how can enterprises ensure a standard security architecture across both the private and public cloud? [su_note note_color="#e1f2ed"]This blog post was created following ActualTech Media's inaugu… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
PanelCast 2019 Predictions: Economic Volatility Will Impact Enterprise IT in 2019
The economy can’t be ignored. We’ve enjoyed a decade-long rally that has propelled startup fortunes and enabled enterprise customers to make new investments. Do you think that will change in 2019 as we see increased market volatility and, if so, what do you think the outcomes look like? [su_no… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
PanelCast 2019 Predictions: The Future of Interoperability and Integration
Is interoperability and integration between product manufacturers increasing or decreasing? [su_note note_color="#e1f2ed"]This blog post was created following ActualTech Media's inaugural PanelCast event, held in December of 2018. This event addressed 2019 enterprise IT predictions in a discuss… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
PanelCast 2019 Predictions: How Public Cloud Costs Are Driving Organizations to On-Prem and Back
Presently, it seems that cloud run costs/subscriptions can easily exceed on-premises costs for general workloads beyond small systems. Do you see this changing moving forward, and how soon? [su_note note_color="#e1f2ed"]This blog post was created following ActualTech Media's inaugural PanelCast ev… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
PanelCast 2019 Predictions: The Evolution from Alignment to Digital Transformation and Going Beyond Hardware Buys
IT needs to meet all the needs of the business, but the business isn’t always interested in buying more stuff – tools, software, platforms, hardware, storage, networking, etc. How does the business forge ahead without IT just continuing to buy? [su_note note_color="#e1f2ed"]This blog post was c… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
A Microsoft Teams vs. Slack Update: Three Weeks In
A lot of people commented on my original article detailing why my company, ActualTech Media, made the jump away from Slack to Microsoft Teams. Now that we’re at the three-week point, it’s becoming clear where we’re seeing benefits and where there are challenges that we hope Microsoft addresses… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Putting Things in Context: Why We’re Ditching Slack for Microsoft Teams
I don’t often write about the inner workings of ActualTech Media. It’s not because I don’t want to, but is due primarily to having a whole lot to stay on top of. But we’re doing something that many may think crazy, so I thought I’d tell the world! We’ve ditched Slack and adopted Micro… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
CIO
Clouds Are a Key Enabler for Digital Transformation
Clouds fundamentally change who has control over IT. Traditional infrastructures rely on IT teams to provision resources, workloads, applications and services. Clouds don’t – they let the individuals responsible for doing something useful with IT be the ones to provision that IT. At the risk… Read More
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