Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Across vertical industries, containers are revered for their capacity to significantly impact the software and application development process. These portable execution environments enable a host of enterprise benefits readily codified into the following three areas: Scale Out: Containers scale out quickly, allowing any number of users to […]
Eliminating Cloud Data Management and IT Operations Security Woes
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Key elements of Data Management and IT operations continue to move to the cloud due to its numerous benefits, such as cheap storage, pay-per-use pricing, disaster recovery (DR), and on-demand resources. This trend shows no signs of slowing, and will undoubtedly continue for some time. Unfortunately, while […]
Smart Data Governance: Ensuring Regulatory Compliance with Smart Availability
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Traditionally, high availability (HA) concerns revolved around performance. HA offered various redundancy and failover options to ensure business continuity in the event of workload spikes, planned maintenance, and unplanned downtime. Today, HA methods have been superseded by Smart Availability’s intelligent workload routing automation, in which data and […]
Redoubling Analytic Value with Smart Availability
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. The underlying value derived from data-driven processes has become increasingly paired with Analytics. Once regarded as a desirable supplement to intuitive decision-making, Analytics has emerged as the focus of mission critical applications across industries for any number of use cases. Yet as the reasons for applying Analytics […]
The Evolution of Smart Availability
Click to learn more about author Don Boxley. Regardless of computing environment, workload, or OS, availability is an essential part of operational success. Outages, system or application failures, and unplanned downtime are simply not acceptable for today’s pace of business in which even 10 minutes of inoperability translates to substantial data loss. What organizations are […]