Category Archives: Cloud Computing

Virtustream Leads SAP HANA to the Enterprise Cloud

Tweet When most people think of SAP, then tend to think of large, complex application landscapes that run the back-office operations of some of the largest and most well-known companies in the world. For many years, these systems consumed huge … Continue reading

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Take A Good Look At Us Now! Announcing the Virtustream Website v3.0

Tweet As our company continues to mature, so does our web site.  Today we are proud to announce that we’ve launched the third generation of the Virtustream.com web site.  The new site represents a significant advancement in our online presence … Continue reading

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Enabling Enterprise Workloads in the Cloud

Tweet At VMware Partner Exchange 2013, Sean Jennings (SVP Solutions Architecture, @vcdx17), presented several sessions focused on how to successfully enable companies to drive greater efficiency our of their business-critical enterprise workloads. He also talked about how Virtustream customers had … Continue reading

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Trusting Your Cloud Provider with Business-Critical Applications

Tweet This past week, there was a very good article in Forbes talking about the changing viewpoints of CIOs towards Cloud Computing services. At the core of the article was a shift in how CIOs are building trust with Cloud … Continue reading

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Does Big Data mean Big Headaches?

Tweet If you’re a CIO or CMO these days, you’ve most likely got a big problem on your hands. Big Data. The guy that accurately predicted the 2012 election used Big Data. The general managers of championship winning sports teams … Continue reading

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Five Things You Didn’t Know About Virtustream

Tweet 1. We accomplish what is Difficult – As Gartner pointed out in their IaaS Magic Quadrant, Virtustream is not just another Cloud Computing company focused on commodity services. We’re focused on helping customers operate their business applications in a way … Continue reading

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Hybrid Cloud Unlocks the 3rd Option for IT

Tweet Almost every aspect of both our personal and professional lives have evolved to the point where a variety of choice is the expected norm. We buy things how we want; we work where it makes the most sense; we … Continue reading

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Extending the Concept of “Application Tiering” to Cloud

Tweet [This post originally appeared here] While the discussion about Cloud Computing has evolved over the past few years, far too often it still devolves into a semi-religious debate about Private Cloud vs. Public Cloud. Traditional IT viewpoints say that security and … Continue reading

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Hey AWS – You Wanna Piece of Me?

Tweet Last weekend, Rodney’s latest blog post, entitled “AWS Needs To Figure Out Its Enterprise Plan”, was released on TechCrunch. Again written in the voice of the Enterprise, the post offers AWS six pro-tips on how to deal with challenges … Continue reading

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The Enterprise: I’m Not Sexy and I Know it

Tweet Rodney Rogers, chairman and CEO of Virtustream shares his thoughts in TechCrunch on the state of cloud computing within the large enterprise. The post discusses cloud solutions and their adoption (or not) in the voice of a large enterprise. … Continue reading

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Cloud Leveraged for a Rapid Post-Acquisition Integration of Tate & Lyle Sugars

Tweet Virtustream, Inc., the enterprise cloud solution provider, announced that Tate & Lyle Sugars has used Virtustream to migrate its full application landscape to the cloud. Domino Sugar (American Sugar Holdings, Inc.) recently acquired Tate & Lyle Sugars from Tate … Continue reading

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Guest Post On Forbes – Twitter and the Social Entrepreneur

Tweet As the popularity of social media has exploded over last several years there seems to be a particular group of users who are greatly under represented within this phenomenon. That of the so-called “Enterprise Executive“ who, until recently, seemed … Continue reading

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