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UK Power Networks gets smart about cloud transformation

CIO

For others, such as UK Power Networks, a more methodical and protracted journey has proved to be the best approach. UK Power Networks was created following a merger of three licensed electricity distribution networks brought together under one roof in 2010 by EDF Energy Networks, where Webb served as head of enterprise data management.

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Why CIOs Need to Understand Apache Cassandra

CIO

Cassandra’s early days In the mid-2000s, engineers at young, fast-growing Facebook had a problem: how could they store and access the mushrooming data created by Messenger, the platform that enabled users of the social networking site to communicate with one another? By 2013, most of Netflix’s data was housed in Cassandra.

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Digital pragmatism at Volvo means more control and less agile

CIO

And alongside these major changes, Volvo is also resetting its business model and switching to direct sales in that part of the network of global dealers broadens their roles where instead of just selling Volvo cars, they become distributors. We were going to leave our data centers, and we did,” he says. “In

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The Rise of Hybrid Cloud: 7 Reasons Why It Might be a Better Choice

OverOps

Many organizations committed themselves to move complete data center applications onto the public cloud. Though the term ‘Hybrid Cloud’ has been around since 2010, it was only later in 2017 when the concept actually took off. These cloud servers can communicate effectively over a private network.

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AWS vs. Azure vs. Google Cloud: Comparing Cloud Platforms

Kaseya

In a public cloud, all of the hardware, software, networking and storage infrastructure is owned and managed by the cloud service provider. In addition, you can also take advantage of the reliability of multiple cloud data centers as well as responsive and customizable load balancing that evolves with your changing demands.

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The Role of Cloud Migration in Digital Transformation

RapidValue

As part of their IT Transformation journey, organizations are vouching for the migration of their mission critical IT workloads on the cloud to address the business demands of faster compute performance and scalable resources, irrespective of traditional data-center infrastructure that limits these capabilities. Conclusion.

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And the Survey Says… Upcoming Trends That Will Transform the Data Center

Palo Alto Networks

Remember the prediction that by 2010 there would not be a security market, because everything will have security built natively in? Or that software defined networking (SDN) will kill the traditional switch vendors, and everyone would shift all their computing to the cloud? Is Everyone Moving Their Data Centers to the Cloud? .