Friday, January 11, 2019
Managing mission-critical applications is a daunting task, and using manual methods to do so often proves to be inefficient and error prone, as Peter Cutts, our SVP of Product Management, recently illustrated. That is why...
Tuesday, January 08, 2019
In 2018, we saw the emergence of several important pivot points that changed the trajectory of cloud in a big way, making it an even more important part of enterprises’ core IT strategies for 2019. Last week, I had the pleasure of...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
For years, cloud industry insiders have heralded the rise of “multi-cloud” as the de facto cloud strategy for companies of every kind, especially large enterprises. In other words, taking a best-of-breed approach and leveraging...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
I remember getting a frantic call from a customer many years ago. He had an enormous data center hosting several hundred public websites and was telling me that all the sites were down and nothing was working. I tried my best to calm...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018
During the month of October, companies and governments around the world participated in National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, raising awareness about the importance of security in our organizations and communities. Now that October is...
Thursday, November 01, 2018
When considering your cloud migration strategy, the economics of running workloads in the cloud are as important as the performance. That’s one of the key takeaways from our latest episode of Cloud Files – an interview series where...
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Every customer who selects Virtustream entrusts us to handle their most critical enterprise applications. Whether it be SAP, Guidewire, Oracle, or one of many others, our customers trust us to ensure that their mission-critical workloads...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Onboarding, monitoring, managing and securing a mission-critical application environment is a complicated undertaking for any organization. In response to constantly changing business and workload requirements, ongoing tuning and...
Monday, October 08, 2018
Today, we’re bringing you another episode of our new podcast, Cloud Files, where I sit down with top cloud industry analysts and reporters to discuss the big questions and challenges today’s enterprise CIOs face when moving to the...
Wednesday, October 03, 2018
Across every industry, enterprises are looking to the cloud as the springboard for digital transformation. With cloud spending on the rise, so too are the number of cloud technology vendors looking to capture their piece of this...
Monday, October 01, 2018
Earning our customer’s trust has been at the foundation of the Virtustream culture since the beginning. As part of taking that commitment to the next level, we are introducing the Virtustream Trust Center: a single destination that...
Monday, October 01, 2018
In recent years, we have seen an explosion of data. Social media, Internet, IoT and cloud are some of the sources of the massive and exponentially growing set of data that exists today. According to a recent IDC whitepaper on data...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
This week marks the 15th annual VMworld Conference, the world’s largest industry event dedicated to all things virtualization. With more than 20,000 industry experts coming together in Las Vegas to discuss the future of...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Agencies continue to seek ways to improve agency services and mitigate the risk of migrating mission-critical applications to the cloud. Already, many agencies, focused on improving the citizen experience, have set their sights on...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
You don’t need to look beyond your daily life to see we live in a multi-cloud world. Just think about the many different products and services we use every day. Media and entertainment, retail, transportation, financial services, even...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
We’re closing out the summer with a bang this year at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas! If you are one of the 20,000+ technology leaders heading to the big event, keep this post bookmarked so you can find us throughout the week. Our team of...
Saturday, June 23, 2018
Improve people’s lives through the power of business. That was the message resonating through the recent SAPPHIRE NOW conference, following SAP CEO Bill McDermott’s keynote kicking off this year’s event. Over the next three days,...
Friday, June 22, 2018
As a Dell Technologies business, Virtustream is among some of the most diverse organizations in the technology industry, and we believe diversity and inclusion are the cornerstones for success. We recognize that different perspectives...
Thursday, June 07, 2018
Welcome to our new “Meet our Leaders” series, an inside look at the team behind Virtustream’s innovative cloud technology and services. In the coming months, we’ll bring you interviews with leaders across the organization, from...
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
Will you be joining us in sunny Orlando, Florida, next week for SAPPHIRE NOW 2018? We sure hope so! To help you keep track of Team Virtustream and all of the activities we have planned at this year’s event, here’s your Virtustream...
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Our Virtustream family spans the globe! Virtustream employees are based all over the world and they’re constantly on the move. A few Virtustreamers captured their recent travels to give us an inside look at where they've been!
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
Last week, we gave you a rundown of top analysts to watch at Dell Tech World 2018. Here’s a look at what they had to say about the big trends that will dominate the cloud industry over the next year, as well as other great observations...
Wednesday, May 23, 2018
We recently unveiled the latest updates and roadmap for the Virtustream Healthcare Cloud at Dell Technologies World 2018. With healthcare organizations all over the world racing to the cloud, the interest and excitement at the show was...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
When most people hear or read the term “public cloud,” they often think of the various general-purpose clouds that enable customers to rent compute instances by the day, hour, or minute. These clouds are appropriate for many business...
Monday, May 21, 2018
When Virtustream acquired Viewtrust in 2014, we saw a visionary and highly-sophisticated technology company that was well ahead of its time. With the great enterprise cloud migration just starting to get underway, it was clear that...
Friday, May 04, 2018
Cloud technology is transforming healthcare in every way imaginable. From advances in patient care and prevention, to personalized medicine and the proliferation of electronic medical records, we are currently witnessing one of the...
Friday, April 27, 2018
As Dell Tech World draws near, we are eager to hear from the industry’s leading analysts on what trends they’re seeing in today’s age of digital transformation. Without a doubt, enterprise cloud adoption has spiked since last...
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
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, architecting large workloads in the cloud is a heroic...
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Virtustream tops the list of enterprise-class hybrid cloud solutions, according the latest Decision Guide from IT industry analyst firm Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Researchers surveyed 260 randomly-selected companies in...
Tuesday, March 06, 2018
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 machine learning, and many other key...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
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 new vertical markets such as...
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
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 all-time highs, mission-critical app migration rates grow, enterprises...
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
Virtustream MicroVM™, or µVM™, is an incredibly cool, surprisingly simple, yet often misunderstood piece of cloud technology. There seems to be some confusion about the MicroVM’s function, and even what it actually is – so...
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 large, global team 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 levels,...
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
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 goals. But culture isn't always easy to build and maintain –...
Thursday, September 07, 2017
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 prepare for when migrating to SAP HANA® and the business suite? And how...
Thursday, September 07, 2017
Applying 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 reviewing an individual resume. Six seconds to make your first...
Thursday, September 07, 2017
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 market overall. The upward trajectory has been nothing short of...
Thursday, August 24, 2017
The cloud has enabled hundreds, if not thousands, of customers to realize the value of HANA without the lengthy and expensive procurement process of acquiring HANA certified compute nodes, and consequently has become a great platform for...
Thursday, August 24, 2017
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 well-known enterprises have accidentally exposed private data from millions of...
Thursday, August 24, 2017
If 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 enterprise-class cloud goodness with us. As excited as we are about...
Monday, August 21, 2017
Are you heading to Las Vegas to attend VMworld 2017 at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Convention Center? Want to keep up with the Virtustream team while you’re there? We thought you might – so we’ve compiled a handy VMworld cheat...
Thursday, August 17, 2017
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 published report from IDC, the global...
Thursday, August 17, 2017
If, 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 time there. If you haven’t, you should – the event is chock-full...
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Virtustream recently announced a Virtustream Healthcare Cloud that provides cloud-based hosting of mission-critical healthcare platforms and applications in an environment built to meet their specific needs. Designed with electronic...
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...
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Day-in-the-Life with Chandra Keyser Chandra 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...
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 Edition If graduation snuck up on you sooner than expected, fear not! In my last blog post, I provided some useful tips for securing the tech job of your dreams and now...
Monday, April 10, 2017
Snag The Tech Job You (Really) Want: Part I As the technology industry grows more competitive by the minute, many candidates across various levels and roles are finding themselves wondering how to get their foot in the door with their...
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...
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, 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...