When it comes to technology, enterprises face a future with significant uncertainty. What’s the best strategy to deal with legacy infrastructure? Should they move to the cloud, embrace cloud-native solutions, or dive into AI and GenAI? Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware is complicating matters further, shaking the foundations of enterprise IT at an already challenging time. […]
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For much of my career, enterprise data architecture has been characterized by separation. Operational databases ran the business. A data warehouse, populated by overnight batch jobs, served reporting and analysis. Later came data lakes for unstructured and semi-structured information, followed by separate environments for data science and machine learning. Each layer had its own tools, […]
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IDC surveyed organizations about their experiences with the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) versus their previous approach to infrastructure, then quantified the differences. This IDC white paper shares details that you can use to understand the improvements in agility, efficiency, scalability, and availability that come with using Nutanix solutions built on hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Download the […]
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Maximize Your Hybrid Infrastructure Potential This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure market, highlighting key trends such as the shift toward hybrid cloud platforms, the rise of AI-ready infrastructure, and growing demand for sovereign cloud support. It helps IT leaders, infrastructure architects, and operations teams navigate complexity and modernize how they […]
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Consider a question that most executives have asked at some point: “Which of our customers are most profitable, and how is that changing?” It appears straightforward. In many organizations, answering it takes weeks. Sales data sits in the CRM, revenue in the finance system, service costs in the support platform and product usage in yet […]
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For several decades, the rhythm of enterprise analytics was set by the overnight batch. Data was extracted from operational systems at the end of the business day, transformed, loaded into a warehouse and presented in reports the following morning. For many purposes, this remains perfectly adequate. A monthly financial review does not require data that […]
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Few terms in data architecture have been used as loosely as “lakehouse.” It is sometimes presented as a revolutionary invention and sometimes dismissed as marketing language. The underlying idea, however, is both sound and practical, and it is worth understanding clearly. The problem it addresses For many years, organizations maintained two distinct environments. The data […]
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The promise of “self-service analytics” has been made many times over the past two decades. Each generation of business intelligence tools claimed it would free business users from dependence on analysts and IT. In practice, most organizations ended up with a small number of skilled report builders and a large population of users who consumed […]
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Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for orchestrating containerized applications. Originally developed from internal systems used to run some of the largest computing workloads in the world, and later contributed to the open source community, it now underpins a substantial share of modern enterprise software. Its power is considerable. It is also, as many […]
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Some of the challenges faced by companies include how to maintain existing applications and modernizing their infrastructure while also supporting new applications like container-native applications. By modernizing to a Hyperconverged platform, companies can solve this problem with both new compute and storage elements. A major benefit of modernizing to a Hyperconverged platform is that both […]
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