All organizations need to face an unpleasant truth: It is not a question of “If” they will experience a ransomware attack; it is a matter of “When.” While cybersecurity software serves as a first-line defense against ransomware, some attacks unfortunately succeed. In those instances, enterprises may use immutable storage solutions […]
A No-Brainer Cost Model for Moving File Storage to the Cloud
Legacy file infrastructure involves a lot of moving pieces that incur (and sometimes hide) a number of capital and operational costs. Enterprises can reduce or eliminate these costs by shifting to cloud-based file storage. When developing a cost analysis for such a migration, it’s important to account for all costs […]
Windows File Server Migrations to Microsoft Azure Cloud
Migrating an organization’s file data to Azure cloud can potentially address a number of pain points that are commonly associated with storing and managing large quantities of unstructured data. However, enterprise class organizations have traditionally shied away from performing large scale file server migrations to the cloud, citing concerns over […]
Nasuni Real- World Use Cases and Analysis: Customers Report Operational Efficiencies and Savings Across the Board
Nasuni offers a cloud-native, SaaS solution for enterprise file services, with an object-based global file system in the back end and familiar file interfaces, including SMB and NFS, at the front end. It is integrated with all major public cloud providers and also works with on-premises S3-compatible object stores. Nasuni […]
MIT Technology Review Insights: Digital Acceleration in the Time of Coronavirus – Europe Outlook
No business strategist could have foreseen that the world would have been thrown into the economic and social crisis wreaked by a fast-moving pandemic, even in Europe, where covid-19’s spread began to take its toll nearly a year ago. This study collects insights from 600 global executives, including leaders at […]
Strategies for Building Digital Infrastructure Resiliency: Global Survey Results
Worldwide, organizations that once planned to gradually invest in digital transformation, remote work,and advanced analytics are being forced to make radicalchanges on the fly in the face of unpredictable, rapidly evolvingmarkets. Existing mission-critical workloads are being updated and integrated with emerging cloud-native applications overnight. Supply chains and partnerships are rapidly […]
Achieving Network Modernization for the Decade Ahead
Every organization is now defined by the digital services it delivers. From engaging customers with new experiences to building new revenue opportunities, and driving digital-first touchpoints that protect and enable customers and communities, these services have never been more essential. As part of VMware’s work with technology decision-makers globally, we’ve […]
Hindsight Is 2020 — The Pandemic Provides A Wake- Up Call
VMware commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a survey that queried 526 decision-makers with responsibility for strategy and security from various industries globally on how the challenges of suddenly shifting to a remote workforce affected their company and what they perceive as the future of remote work. The Pandemic Made Significant […]
How CIOs are Freeing Up Budget to Fund Innovation
The global pandemic put pressure on IT budgets—yet the business needs IT innovation now more than ever. In our newest Executive Brief, we share new research from MIT and Forrester on how IT leaders are responding to these demands, and where they’re finding budget for innovative projects to support distributed […]
Lead/Forward Insights Report Q2 2021: After a Transformative Year, Businesses Seek Preparedness
To deal with the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic, many tech executives were forced to prioritize secure, digital customer experience (CX)and employee experience (EX)in their IT decisions. Transforming digital customer engagement and securing distributed workforces and experiences will continue to drive budget requirements going forward. In the latest VMware Lead/Forward […]