Admins can keep their cloud skills sharp with private cloud training and certifications that increase professional knowledge about private cloud construction, deployment, management and cloud-specific technologies. Most companies use cloud computing. Public cloud spending is forecast to grow to 18.4% to $304.9 billion in 2021, but organizations always look for ways to save on their […]

The term resilience has taken on a prominent meaning within the IT profession. But before an organization can achieve — and continuously improve — its resilience strategy, it must have a clear understanding of what resiliency entails, its relationship to business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) and how resiliency relates to its most mission-critical resources […]

If there’s one truth the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated for hyper-convergence, it’s that the IT infrastructure paradigm’s initial strengths remain important. For instance, the technology provided the VDI support that helped many organizations cope with an exponentially increased remote workforce. This year’s winners in the Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2020 Products of the Year hyper-converged […]

Snapshots have their pros and cons. They can be a cost-effective way to protect data and replicate instances of a database quickly. But they can also be the source of unexpected cloud costs. The latter makes implementing effective snapshot management strategies particularly important. Before you can use this valuable tool efficiently, it’s important to understand […]

Businesses of all shapes and sizes — and across multiple industries — are ramping up their digital business initiatives and IT services roadmaps. Even prior to COVID-19, these initiatives were high on the IT priority list, but in a soon-to-be post-coronavirus era (vaccine distribution permitting), businesses will succeed or fail based on their ability to […]

We approached experts, analysts and industry insiders and asked them to share their observations on enterprise technology trends for 2021 as well as COVID-19’s effect on the overall technology spectrum. Read on to find out what the leading thinkers and insiders we spoke to had to say about digitalization, convergence, resiliency, modern storage and multi-cloud, […]

The year 2020 was a difficult one and unlike any other for businesses and organizations around the world. Fortunately, while the challenges presented by COVID-19 were numerous, many data storage vendors rose to the occasion with standout enterprise storage systems, software and services. The 19th annual Storage magazine and SearchStorage 2020 Products of the Year […]

Like with other IT areas, data storage changes are more evolutionary than revolutionary. Of course, the pace of evolution changes from year to year. But to get a reliable forecast on what is coming, it’s useful to look at what just happened. In 2020, for example, the pace of change increased drastically due to a […]

Editor’s note Upended and accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic, workforce strategy and planning are treading into new frontiers at unprecedented speeds. C-suite executives and department managers responsible for HR, IT and facilities are now collectively focused on ensuring the safe return of employees to the office, while a large majority of employees continue to work […]