There’s no denying it—the world has changed over the last 18 months. For pharmaceutical companies, acceleration is the new normal. Companies are challenged to push discovery and development timelines to the limit while still adhering to GxP and other regulations and while retaining tight control on intellectual property. Pharma companies are accelerating the lifecycle […]
Silos, silos everywhere. No, I’m not talking about grain silos. Or missile silos. Or even organizational silos. I’m talking about data silos. You know, those pockets of data that exist in an enterprise that only one group has access to and ownership of, and that most of the rest of the organization has no idea […]
There has been a lot written about application migration and strategies for success. But I’d like to focus on an element that I notice is frequently neglected: the importance of infrastructure to application migration. With an appreciative nod to the well-written “The 6R’s: 6 Application Migration Strategies,” let’s explore the role of infrastructure as you travel […]
They say you should embrace change. If that’s true, then we’ve been doing a lot of hugging. NetApp and Google Cloud have been working hard to help companies adapt to change. Capitalize on uncertainty. Shape new business opportunities. Specifically, we’ve created a powerful cloud toolkit to help solve and simplify tough business challenges. Like […]
It seems like everyone talks about how cloud solutions reduce costs, increase efficiency, and make automation possible. However, when you drill into the available solutions, you find that many of them require significant ramp-up time or startup costs to achieve results. It makes you wonder about the real ROI. When NetApp IT’s automation and […]
Realistically? Not many folks. Backup is almost always seen as an afterthought, as an insurance policy that you only concern yourself with when it is time to make a claim, or groan when the premium (software license) renewal comes around. Makes me think of Chris Rock’s stand-up routine, where he says it shouldn’t even be […]
Agility is the buzzword of the day. We know we need it, so everybody wants this elusive advantage. But a bit like digital transformation, it is rife with multiple definitions depending on who you happen to be speaking with. Last year, McKinsey published a report revealing that different industries and different organizations focus on […]
Moving data to the cloud is a strategic business decision; but how you choose to get there can impact on your business success once you arrive. Many cloud technology vendors promise that migrating to the cloud is easy – it’s true that if you are moving small data sets or workloads to a public cloud […]
With a cloud-first mandate, data and cloud storage are critical to your success. If you’re finding data scale to be a stumbling block, you aren’t alone: You need to focus on cloud storage. At NetApp, we can help. We’ve been leading storage and cloud data management for years. Not since the beginning, obviously (when cave […]
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Old-school business problems are sometimes the most satisfying to solve. The Lithuanian email marketing company MailerLite had a tricky file migration challenge. The company needed to move hundreds of millions of files to Google Cloud, but didn’t want to jeopardize ongoing operations. These operations included more than 30 million emails a day, hundreds of thousands of landing […]
The Discover NetApp video series continues with my interview of NetApp Technologist Dave Krenik. You may not be able to go back 14 billion years to experience firsthand the grand unification theory of the universe. But in this enlightening conversation with Dave, you will learn how this theory can apply to your cloud strategy. […]
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