Tag: infrastructure

Nokia Utilities power up new services with fiber article

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As part of their exploration of new business models, many power utilities are looking at unregulated services as a potentially attractive way to generate new revenues. These include a range of possible consumer, business, carrier and city government services that can take advantage of a fiber infrastructure, and a utility’s critical communications and grid operations skills. The variety of options for any given utility will depend in part on the country in which they are operating, due to the impact of government policies, local economic conditions and the competitive environment. This document will focus specifically on new service opportunities that leverage utility-owned fiber infrastructure.

A hybrid and multicloud strategy for architects

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The elasticity, scalability, and speed of deploying applications in the public cloud can help organizations increase business growth and reduce costs while managing data growth and improving agility. But moving to the hybrid or public cloud can present challenges. Red Hat offers a comprehensive infrastructure platform that enables compute, storage, and networking on demand, across on-premise and public multicloud resources. Read this brief to learn more.

Mainframes. Anomaly or Workhorse

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Amid considerable change to infrastructure, there are many companies continuing to depend on and invest in their mainframe estate. Simon Ratcliffe, Principal Consultant, Advisory, Ensono and Kevin Stoodley, IBM Fellow and CTO, IBM Z, consider the perceived barriers to digital transformation, and how modernizing the mainframe environment to enable it to become part of the transformations rather than an obstacle, is the logical desired outcome, to deliver change rapidly and effectively.

How Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Enables Digital Transformation

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These organizations change their focus, processes and resource allocation according to changes in the market and external environment. Software engineers are an example of specialty workers who have developed agile practices that are based on constant feedback from end users. Because

developers receive continual feedback on their work, they can correct mistakes quickly and take advantage of unanticipated opportunities presented by end-user feedback.

ESG White Paper Dell Technologies With Microsoft SQL Server

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Organizations across industries continue down the digital transformation path. ESG research shows that while 19% of organizations view themselves as having already implemented and optimized several digital transformation initiatives, a majority (57%) of organizations are still on the path, with 18% still in the planning stages.1 Whether modernizing infrastructure, adopting cloud technologies, or becoming more data driven, organizations are continually looking for ways to become more operationally efficient and agile in order to respond to the dynamic, real time needs of the business