Today, Dell Technologies announced the availability of Dell EMC PowerProtect Backup Service via AWS Marketplace, providing easy access for organizations who want to take advantage of the cloud for scalable, secure protection for SaaS applications, endpoints and hybrid workloads. PowerProtect Backup Service can be deployed in AWS in minutes and provides on-demand scaling to ensure…
As I look back on the world of data analytics, I see such a huge divide. There are organizations making use of their data and those who are not. Even 10 years ago it was not uncommon for organizations to not take full advantage of their own unstructured data. Sure, they were doing reporting or…
Earlier this week, I ordered from Amazon.fr a box of four toothpaste tubes, but only one was in the box. I called Amazon’s customer center. The agent immediately found my order without me having to share the long order number. She issued a refund and told me I even can keep the one tube I…
In just a few short days, mankind will be united by love of country and sport, as we celebrate the Opening Ceremonies to mark the beginning of the long-awaited Tokyo Summer Olympics. Thousands of athletes representing approximately 205 countries will compete in 46 various sports for the chance to bring honor and glory home. Countless…
By 2025, according to Gartner, 75 percent of data will be generated outside of the data center at the edge. This historic shift will generate a wealth of new opportunities as well as exciting and daunting challenges and unknowns. Importantly, I believe the edge will be the key to business success in the future. Innovative…
At AWS re:Invent 2020, we previewed Amazon EBS io2 Block Express volumes, the next-generation server storage architecture that delivers the first SAN built for the cloud. Block Express is designed to meet the requirements of the largest, most I/O-intensive, mission-critical deployments of Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, SAP HANA, and SAS Analytics on AWS. Today, I…
IT security teams need to have a real-time understanding of what’s happening with their infrastructure and applications. They need to be able to find and correlate data in this continuous flood of information to identify unexpected behaviors or patterns that can lead to a security breach. To simplify and automate this process, many solutions have…
Dell Technologies is your innovation engine, offering distinctive servers for distinctive needs. Imagine that you were in a data center ten years ago, and while looking at the servers, you recognized that they were essentially built on the same technologies. They all came with similar CPUs, similar memory, and similar drives. They even all came…
Remember in 2014 when millions of people woke up to find a U2 album on their devices, which they hadn’t downloaded? A lot of people were rightly annoyed about it. They thought they were the ones who controlled what was installed and downloaded onto their phones – so it was quite unsettling to realise that it could be manipulated by third…
Time sure does fly! I wrote about the production launch of Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) back in 2006, with no inkling that I would still be blogging fifteen years later, or that this service would still be growing rapidly while remaining fundamental to the architecture of so many different types of web-scale applications. The…