INTELLIGENT BRANDS // Cloud
At a glance…
EMC announces new
hybrid cloud platform
enhancements
EQUALLY IMPORTANT ARE
MANAGEMENT TOOLS AND
PROCESSES THAT SHUT DOWN
WORKLOADS WHICH DON’T
NEED TO BE RUNNING OR
WHICH OPTIMISE WORKLOAD
PLACEMENT AND OTHER
PARAMETRES
under established policies, to users), automation
(which improves both speed and repeatability),
and third-party integrations (which reduce the
amount of manual work required).
Save time and money internally
While speed (a.k.a. agility/flexibility/adaptability)
is widely viewed as an important attribute of
modern IT infrastructures, making efficient
use of both physical and human resources is
still a top-of-mind concern for almost every IT
manager. It’s worth noting that even the Web-
scale companies most associated with the newest
technologies are also known for their extremely
high physical densities and large numbers of
servers handled by each system administrator.
Increasing the density of virtualisation deployments
is a straightforward way to allow more workloads to
run on a given number of physical servers. Equally
important are management tools and processes
that shut down workloads which don’t need to be
running or which optimise workload placement and
other parametres.
In conclusion, while sometimes overlooked,
improving the efficiency of existing virtualisation
infrastructures can unlock significant value for
organisations in the Middle East.
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EMC has announced the general availability for EMC Enterprise
Hybrid Cloud v4.0, as well as planned enhancements for
both Enterprise Hybrid Cloud and EMC Native Hybrid Cloud,
designed to help customers advance their journey for both
traditional and cloud-native applications.
The announcement comes soon after a research undertaken
by EMC and VMware to assess the current state of IT
infrastructure that found 80% of companies aim to run IT as a
customer focused business.
Based on interviews with 660 EMC and VMware enterprise
customers across 18 industries, the report indicated that
respondents want IT organisations to be cost-competitive
with external service providers and seek cost efficiencies
by virtualising, standardising, and developing hybrid cloud
architectures. Most organisations indicated they want to have
a hybrid cloud architecture for their production applications
within the next 18-24 months, with 90% reporting they are in
the evaluation or proof-of-concept stage.
Additional enhancements to Enterprise Hybrid Cloud are
targeted for later this year. These enhancements are planned
to include new workflows that automate application to
infrastructure provisioning to reduce the time and complexity
of delivering new services.
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