In a matter of days, companies around the world showed incredible agility by moving from a limited remote workforce to a majority of their employees now working from home full time when their industries and work allowed. Because companies needed to act quickly, many established security standards were bypassed or hastily rushed through the process, increasing their exposure to cyber threats. Even the World Health Organization is warning against cyber attacks, citing a five-fold increase. This highlights that if you’re considering a data protection change, cyber recovery should be a key decision criteria that you validate... READ MORE

Edge is going through a sea change today. Evolving technology ecosystems and new wave of applications in computer vision, Edge analytics, telco virtual radio access networks and autonomous vehicles require real time analytics. IT work at home and data privacy regulations are all driving the new paradigm. The outcome of these changes is an explosion of data produced outside the cloud and core data center. This data has two requirements: 1) a powerful compute capability to process it, and 2) real-time systems with very low latency that will provide insights and summarize the massive wave of... READ MORE

The demand for database cloning is growing exponentially as more and more companies invest in DevOps to bring new products and features to market faster. As a result, software developers, database admins, quality assurance, data scientists, analysts and operations teams all need fast access to production data copies of critical enterprise databases. Size and speed The challenge is that today’s databases are huge, ranging in size from 10 to 100 terabytes. Apart from obvious storage constraints, delay is also a factor. Moving such huge files, regardless of network speed, can take hours, sometimes even days. The... READ MORE

This episode is a special milestone for us. We have reached episode 13 – a true baker’s dozen! And, fittingly, in this episode we discuss bread machines. We also talk about the popularity of esports, what qualifies as a cloud solution, and we might even speak a bit of Swahili!   If you’ve got questions about this episode, or a question you’d like Matt to answer in the next episode, tweet Matt using #BakersHalfDozen. Episode 13 Show Notes: Item 1: Mother knows best! Item 2: Remember to say the magic words! Item 3: League of Legends... READ MORE

Since the successful introduction of PowerProtect DD Series Appliances to the market last September, our engineers have been hard at work improving our software. We are pleased to announce some new features and higher levels of performance coming to the product line today. This spring we have been working on a number of improvements to PowerProtect DD that we can’t wait to share with you, so let’s get to it! Dell EMC PowerProtect DD9900 In this data driven world we are faced with explosive data growth that needs protecting, and PowerProtect DD Series Appliances are here... READ MORE

File data has experienced rapid growth in the data center. In fact, it often accounts for nearly 50 percent of the on-prem data footprint for an organization1. When it comes to the public cloud, adoption of file has been steady, but it is not as prevalent. This is a reflection of the state of the file services in the cloud today. As they become more mature and capable, more file-based workloads can be supported, and adoption will naturally accelerate. This is why I’m excited to introduce as part of the Dell Technologies Cloud family OneFS for... READ MORE

Customers love the speed and flexibility of public cloud but the performance, security and control of on-premises infrastructure. They have been asking for an approach that combines both without introducing organization complexities. Therefore, we introduced VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, the fully managed Dell Technologies Cloud Data Center-as-a-Service last year that combines the benefits of public cloud and on-premises infrastructure, delivered as-a-service to customers. VMware Cloud on Dell EMC delivers cloud-like ease of use to your on-premises workloads and provides consistent operations between on-premises and public cloud environments. The cloud service delivers the VMware Cloud experience... READ MORE

You’ve heard the sayings before “every company is a software company,” or “software is eating the world.” Common industry buzz terms, but it’s just speaking to the next evolution in application architectures, as organizations embrace cloud-native and containerized workloads. As we increasingly continue to both consume and develop applications and code, the question is how to build and deliver a superior digital experience, underpinned by those applications and your data? And how do we best support that journey? Last year, we launched Dell Technologies Cloud Platform (DTCP) to solve these challenges. It’s a turnkey experience for... READ MORE

Dell Technologies continues to innovate and deliver new solutions for customers as we fully accelerate to meet the Cloud era. With new partnerships with Google Cloud and new Dell Technologies Cloud Platform capabilities, Dell Technologies is helping to unify the application experience across products and technologies. That Cloud-based innovation extends to the Edge with SD-WAN. Dell EMC SD-WAN Solution powered by VMware delivers a set of software-defined tools that can boost application performance and maintain quality of service for mission-critical applications like voice, video conferencing, and VDI. With Cloud-based centralized management, a Cloud network of virtualized... READ MORE

High-end application users working in mission-critical workflows have historically relied on desktop workstations to provide the power and performance they required. And back when “work” was viewed as a destination, it didn’t matter. However, the workplace is changing. Whether customers are working on ground-breaking healthcare research, designing innovative engineering solutions or editing the next big TV series, they shouldn’t have to sacrifice performance for portability. Today, we announced the biggest updates to Dell’s mobile workstation line since we first introduced the award-winning Dell Precision M3800 in 2013. Our product and engineering teams continue to redefine the... READ MORE