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Hyperconverged Platforms Poised for Takeoff

It's all coming together in the datacenter, according to a new industry forecast detailing what it calls hyperconverged integrated systems, or HCIS. Market research Gartner Inc. predicts the booming ...Full Article

Gartner: ‘Hello Algorithms, Goodbye Apps’

Algorithms will soon replace apps as they reshape business, IT, and the ways in which organizations interact with customers, partners, and employees, according to researchers speaking at today's Gartner ...Full Article

SaaS Seen Driving Enterprise Software Sales

Market researcher Gartner predicts that application software sales will grow 7.5 percent this year and would exceed $200 billion by 2019, driven by widespread adoption of the cloud-based SaaS ...Full Article

ExaGrid Upgrade Expands Dedupe, Oracle RMAN Channels Support

ExaGrid this month expects to release the latest iteration of software for its disk-based backup storage solutions, an upgrade that globally supports deduplication across NAS shares and appliances in a ...Full Article

Bring Shadow IT Out of the Dark, Gartner Tells Tech

Mention shadow IT to many technology professionals and they'll shudder before trading war stories. But to empower their organizations to innovate, grow, and succeed, IT departments must embrace and manage this ...Full Article

Tight IT Budgets Could Slow Gov’t Clouds

The gears of government bureaucracy grind slowly, but gradually federal agencies are adopting cloud-based IT infrastructure and the enterprise tools it makes possible, according to a new market survey. ...Full Article

Booming Security Market Reflects Shift to Cloud

Seemingly nonstop reports of network security breaches—the latest one at the Internal Revenue Service—and heightened awareness about the need to button down corporate infrastructure appears to be reflected in ...Full Article

Gartner: CRM Software Market Grew 13.3% in 2014

Worldwide customer relationship management (CRM) software totalled $23.2 billion in 2014, up 13.3 percent from $20.4 billion in 2013, according to Gartner, Inc. "Large vendors leveraged their acquisitions to extend ...Full Article

How to Create a DevOps Culture

Collaboration has extended to the IT department through growing adoption of DevOps, an approach whereby developers and operations people work together efficiently and effectively. But without careful planning and ...Full Article