Francoise Rees

With modern data center systems providing unprecedented levels of flexibility, automation, and policy-based consistency, any organization can now achieve cloud efficiency, speed, and scale.

If you are responsible for managing data center infrastructure and want to bring the flexibility and operating model of the cloud on prem, then here's a summary of things not to miss at Cisco Live EMEA in Amsterdam.

In a recent Forrester survey 94% of respondents acknowledged wasting money in the cloud, and one in four organizations surpassed their projected cloud spend. So how do you join the select club of the cloud spend optimization mavericks?

Cloud native is fast becoming the “it” destination platform for IT enterprises to better manage public, private, and on-premises cloud application workloads. But to succeed, cloud native operational models must keep costs under control while also ensuring peak application performance.

The storage world has evolved alongside customers' sophistication in managing their IT operations. Once organizations evolve to a hybrid cloud architecture, Cisco Intersight together with Terraform can not only simplify typical Day-2 operations by automating processes but also help in bringing up a Day-1 environment easily. MinIO makes deploying and operating cloud-scale storage solutions for hybrid cloud environment easier.

How do you keep your IT infrastructure humming when it is distributed all around the world? Two very different companies have been successful at it.

Automation use is still low in most organizations, but it is top of mind for DevOps. 451 analyst, Eric Hanselman, believes Infrastructure as Code can help, and it doesn’t have to be scary.

Medical centers and hospitals are turning to real-time image and video analytics technology to augment the work of radiologists. Find out what the implications are for the underlying IT infrastructure.

Recent ESG research looks at how data science and IT teams work together and how the quality of their collaboration affects the ROI of advanced analytics and artificial intelligence initiatives.