We all know someone with a cluttered desktop I was at a cafe with my colleague recently, prepaing and sorting out some documents to present at a partner meeting that followed and observed that his desktop was filled with PDF, Word and PowerPoint files. I reminded him that he could access the files from the cloud by…
Have you ever encountered a hard disk failure before? I am sure almost all of you had experienced some form of data lost before. Did your laptop’s suffered from Hard-Disk Drive(HDD) crashed before? Has your server received an outage and some of the data could not be recovered? Did you know that can even if…
A blog inspired by VMworld 2016 I have the great pleasure to attend several conferences a year hosted by rhipe’s vendor partners. This year, the key theme almost universally has been digital transformation, and in particular digital transformation as seen through the lens of software companies positioning themselves to empower companies to embrace a digital…
Market Data and Trends While popular and entrenched in some data centers, proprietary UNIX implementations (AIX, HP-UX, Oracle Solaris) continue to lose market share. IDC predicts that Linux will be one of only two operating systems left standing. (The other is Microsoft Windows.) Red Hat commands a 62 percent and growing share of the paid…
(George De Bono, GM Sales ANZ, rhipe) #RCS2016 is something I’ve used frequently over the last six weeks as I took to the road hosting the Australian series of the rhipe Cloud Summit. During March I visited Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney to meet and interact with an abundance of rhipe Partners, old and new.…
(Stephen Parker, Senior Industry Evangelist, 1visionOT) It's only a few years since 'Cloud', 'Big Data' and 'Mobile' became the bright, shiny things. Now they're mainstream with most major technology vendors trumpeting their market leadership or targeted dominance in one area or another. Customers are now focusing their IT spend in these new area's, referred…
(Stephen Parker, Head of Cloud Strategy, NewLease) After “Cloud”, “Big Data” is one of the buzz words at the moment. I was recently asked how they were connected and for some examples. Following is a summary of my reply: One of the biggest challenges for all businesses will be that Big Data will require staff…
