Friday, April 20, 2018
Heading to Las Vegas soon to attend Dell Technologies World 2018? With all the excitement soon to be taking place at the Venetian, we want to make sure you know where to find Team Virtustream during the big event. Keep this cheat sheet...
Sunday, March 25, 2018
By Jake Echanove, Director, Systems Engineering, Americas As any IT professional knows, running large and resource intensive workloads in the cloud is hard. The cloud is often billed as a panacea, but the truth is that for most companies,...
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
By: Rob Bissett, Director, Strategic Marketing, Virtustream Virtustream tops the list of enterprise-class hybrid cloud solutions, according the latest Decision Guide from IT industry analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA)...
Tuesday, March 06, 2018
By: Lisa Desmond, CMO, Virtustream By all indications, 2018 is shaping up to be a watershed year for the cloud. With cloud partnerships on the rise, as well as rapid advances being made in edge computing, artificial intelligence and...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
By: Lisa Desmond, CMO, Virtustream 2017 was another strong and eventful year for Virtustream and its enterprise customers. Over the course of this past year, we marked the first anniversary of joining Dell Technologies, entered...
Thursday, January 11, 2018
There is an analogy in the investment world known as “weak hands vs. strong hands”. The concept is simple. When the market gets volatile, how does the investor respond? Will they stay strong and remain committed – or will they cut...
Thursday, January 11, 2018
By: Jennifer Brenner, Vice President, Communications, Virtustream As we begin 2018, many are reflecting on the cloud sector’s remarkable progress in 2017. Over the last 12 months, we’ve seen enterprise cloud adoption rise to...
Thursday, January 04, 2018
Overview: On January 3, 2018, media reports surfaced regarding a vulnerability in Intel chipsets going back at least a decade. Intel has published an article on their newsroom addressing these reports at...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
By Dave Henry, Technical Product Marketing, @davemhenry Virtustream MicroVM™, or µVM™, is an incredibly cool, surprisingly simple, yet often misunderstood piece of cloud technology. There seems to be some confusion...
Thursday, November 30, 2017
From food to the way we dress to the way we interact with each other, culture impacts everything in our personal and professional lives. And while we are working toward a centralized company mission, we each have our...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
With a team of 2,500+ people and major operations in 10 countries, we’re leading the world’s most important businesses on their journey through cloud transformation. Here’s a snapshot of what our employees across...
Thursday, November 16, 2017
VMworld 2017 was one for the books! Our week was filled with speaking sessions, whiteboarding and discussing all things cloud with people from across the globe. We wanted to share a few of our highlights from the show, so take a look...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
By Lauren Day, Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition. Culture is critical to the success of any company. From early-stage startups to the Fortune 500, culture is what brings teams together and drives them to achieve their...
Thursday, September 07, 2017
By Jake Echanove, Director, Systems Engineering - Americas, @JakeEchanove One of my C-level execs shot me a short email the other day: Jake: In your experience, what are the five most common 'gotchas' that a customer should...
Thursday, September 07, 2017
By: Lauren Day, Senior Director of Global Talent AcquisitionApplying for a new job is a strenuous process and it all starts with writing your resume. A study from The Ladders found that on average, recruiters spend only six seconds...
Thursday, September 07, 2017
By Lisa Desmond, Senior Vice President, Marketing, @LisaDesmond Cloud looks much different than it did in 2014. Scores of new companies have entered the market and the hosted private cloud sector is now the fastest growing area of the...
Thursday, August 24, 2017
By Jake Echanove, Director, Systems Engineering - Americas, @JakeEchanove The cloud has enabled hundreds, if not thousands, of customers to realize the value of HANA without the lengthy and expensive procurement process of...
Thursday, August 24, 2017
By Rob Bissett, Director, Strategic Marketing at Virtustream, @robbissett If you have been following cloud news lately, you will have surmised that for all its promise, cloud computing is ... hard. In recent weeks, several...
Thursday, August 24, 2017
By Dave Henry, Technical Product Marketing, @davemhenryIf you’re headed to VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, make sure to connect with Virtustream while you’re there. We’ll be showing up in full force, bringing all sorts of...
Monday, August 21, 2017
Are you heading toLas Vegas to attend VMworld 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel &Convention Center? Want to keep up with the Virtustream team while you’rethere? We thought you might – so we’ve compiled a handy VMworld cheat...
Thursday, August 17, 2017
By Simon Walsh, COO, Virtustream All across the world, digital technology is upending age-old industries and transforming the way organizations of every shape and size operate their businesses. In fact, according to a recently...
Thursday, August 17, 2017
By Dave Henry, Technical Product Marketing, Virtustream, @davemhenryIf, like me, you’re looking forward to VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, you’re probably still figuring out how to arrange things so you can get the most value out of your...
Thursday, August 17, 2017
By Dave Henry, Technical Product Marketing, Virtustream, @davemhenry Virtustream recently announced a Virtustream Healthcare Cloud that provides cloud-based hosting of mission-critical healthcare platforms and applications in...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017
Some people say I’m a creature of habit. They say this because I must sit in the same spot in a meeting room (always with a view of the door and from the back of the room) or I drink the exact same drink every day (and yes, café...
Wednesday, July 05, 2017
Here we are, now into July, with yet another IT conference and product launch season behind us. Many of us are looking forward to a quiet summer stretch as we unpack our work bags, stretch our legs, and finally get to bed at a reasonable...
Thursday, May 25, 2017
We founded Virtustream in 2009 when we saw an unmet need in the marketplace for a public cloud service capable of handling the mission critical workloads of large enterprises. Traditional enterprise applications such as enterprise...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Day-in-the-Life with Chandra KeyserChandra Keyser, ITIL Expert in Pennsylvania Questions:1. Tell us a little about your day-to-day role at Virtustream – what are some of your responsibilities and activities you regularly work on? I...
Friday, May 05, 2017
Heading to Dell EMC World next week and want to say hello to the Virtustream team throughout the show? We thought you might – so we put together a quick cheat sheet of where you can find us, when we’re speaking and how to engage with...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Snag The Tech Job You (Really) Want: Part II — Graduation EditionLauren Day, Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition If graduation snuck up on you sooner than expected, fear not! In my last blog post, I provided some useful tips...
Monday, April 10, 2017
Snag The Tech Job You (Really) Want: Part I Lauren Day, Senior Director of Global Talent Acquisition As the technology industry grows more competitive by the minute, many candidates across various levels and roles are finding themselves...
Thursday, February 16, 2017
As trained technology professionals, we’ve become used to the idea that technology changes faster every year and the need to ‘minimize negative business disruptions’ is even more critical today, when more and more business...
Thursday, January 12, 2017
In early 2016, the 451 Group released a report that forecasted public cloud storage spending to double the current spending percentage by 2017. Cloud storage growth has accelerated over the last few years as companies look to benefit...
Tuesday, November 08, 2016
Explorers navigated by pure luck and chance. Eventually, navigation relied on the sun’s direction during the day, the moon by night, and later by stars with a technology invention called the sextant. Next came radio positioning and now...
Monday, October 24, 2016
It’s hard to imagine a world without cloud. Here we are in 2016 and nearly every consumer has heard of, come into contact with or purchased cloud services in one form or another. Many of us are now dependent on cloud benefits as many...
Thursday, June 09, 2016
Moving mission-critical applications such as SAP to the cloud can provide a great return in terms of user satisfaction and fiscal management. It requires careful consideration, however, when choosing the Cloud Service Provider (CSP)...
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
The title says it all…and we have all been through them…at first you are wide awake; by slide 93, you have made a grocery list, shopped online, read your email, instant messaged with a few folks and planned the weekend...
Friday, April 29, 2016
Introduction More enterprises are turning to hybrid cloud solutions, looking to employ the best elements of both private and public cloud environments. According to Gartner, nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud...
Friday, March 18, 2016
Everyone, As we enter 2016, I thought I would address a few articles on the ‘Data Centers of the Future’ or simply ‘Smart Data Centers’. One area of innovation over the past few years are called Smart PDU’s (Power Distribution...
Monday, February 08, 2016
These are exciting times for Virtustream. We’ve hit the ground running, and I’m thrilled about the new year and what’s in store. First, it’s an honor to be leading an EMC Federation company alongside some of the most talented...
Monday, January 25, 2016
One of the areas I am excited about in 2016 is Virtustream’s extended partnership with SAP – which offers a secure, flexible cloud infrastructure service for SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud (HEC). We launched this service in EMEA & MEE this...
Tuesday, May 26, 2015
So I’m going to try to sum up the past 6 years in about 1,000 words. This may be a bigger challenge for me than this deal we just signed. Before getting into it, I want to thank Joe Tucci, Pat Gelsinger, Howard Elias and everyone else...
Sunday, May 24, 2015
I was recently at a Fortune 500 cloud IaaS prospect and a senior technology executive there gave me “one opportunity” to describe what Virtustream did technologically and why she should care. Her two stipulations were that I had to...