Flexential CEO Chris Downie says recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will bring a sharper focus on hybrid IT, Flexential aims to use its growing portfolio of services and markets to help enterprise customers sort out a complex IT landscape
The Cloud is Better at the Edge
Phillip Marangella, chief marketing officer of EdgeConneX, highlights how many of today’s CIOs are bringing their cloud strategies to the edge.
Exploring Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Todd Piper, Chief Information Officer at Service Express, explains the differences between the different cloud options on the market and how a hybrid strategy can help companies support their digital transformation initiatives.
Closer Look: How Data Centers are Leveraging Hybrid IT
Edge computing is poised to revolutionize the way we communicate, share data, and access critical resources. Edge ecosystems are specifically designed to help bring core services, data, parts of the cloud, and applications far closer to the user than ever before. This is an excerpt from a special report, sponsored by Panduit.
Hybrid IT Design: A 10-Step Approach
When done right, Hybrid IT enables businesses with an on-premises and multi-cloud strategy to optimize cost across these resources. Here’s a clear step-by-step approach to a hybrid IT approach done right from a new special report series, sponsored by Panduit.
Making the Cloud and Data Center Work Together Effectively
The cloud plays a critical role in service delivery, but will not replace data center solutions. That’s why cloud providers are creating solutions to run within on-premises data center. A new DCF special report on #hybridIT explores the evolving relationship between the cloud and the data center.
Hybrid Computing is Helping Redefine Modern IT Models
Hybrid IT is quickly becoming the new normal for those organizations striving to get ahead. This special report series, sponsored by Panduit, explores the ins and outs of hybrid IT and how modern IT models are evolving.
Direct Connect Hybrid Cloud Solution Benefits & Potential Explored in a New CoreSite Report
The hybrid cloud approach is gaining steam, as the revenues of hyperscale cloud service providers like AWS and Microsoft continue to skyrocket. Traditionally, businesses have primarily connected to clouds using a virtual private network over the public internet, but the tides are shifting. CoreSite explores 5 reasons today to directly connect your hybrid cloud solution in a new ebook that looks at security, performance & more.
With Packet Bare Metal Servers, Equinix Pushes Deeper Into Services
With its $335 million acquisition of Packet, Equinx hopes to use bare metal servers to deploy colo as if it were cloud, evolving its business model to embrace a deeper push into services.
Why Many Tech Companies are Turning to the Hybrid Cloud to Tackle Today’s Business Challenges
With the potential stemming from new technology like machine learning, AI, big data and more, tech companies continue to make up one of the fastest growing industry segments. A new report from Digital Realty explores the potential of the hybrid cloud, which according to the report, has emerged as a way to “drive down IT costs, greater agility and speed when embracing new business opportunities, and the ability to protect critical business data and applications from external and internal threats.”
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