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What does modern information technology have in common with professional basketball superstar Kevin Durant? Both are achieving new levels of performance and efficiency through the use of predictive analytics. Predictive analytics is an area of statistics that uses artificial intelligence

Out with the old, in with the new — it’s the perpetual New Year’s resolution. It’s particularly good advice for next year if you’re among the many organizations still using older versions of the Microsoft Office productivity suite. Office 2007

Server virtualization is proven to deliver significant business benefits, including faster resource provisioning, streamlined operations and greater IT agility. As a result, server virtualization has become a mainstream technology that continues to grow steadily. According to the IDC Market Trends

Ever-expanding storage volumes and the need for improved performance is driving adoption of all-flash arrays. However, all-flash arrays often expose bottlenecks in legacy storage-area networks (SANs) that limit the performance gains afforded by flash. Because storage is vital to operations,

Flash storage would seem to be the answer to application performance problems. By replacing spinning hard disks with solid-state flash drives, organizations can reduce storage latency to one or two milliseconds or less. That makes flash ideal for data analytics,

There’s a lot of talk these days about digital transformation — the altering of business processes and models to take full advantage of technology. Digital transformation is proven to bring competitive advantages and levels of productivity and customer service never

Traditional security tools are designed to identify and stop threats based upon policy-based criteria. For example, a mobile device management solution might block an attempted login from an unsecured device or suspicious location. Or a data loss prevention system might

According to Gallup, 43 percent of Americans did all or some work from home in 2016, up from 39 percent in 2015. The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) finds that 60 percent of businesses offered a telecommuting benefit in 2016, up from 20 percent

Disaster recovery (DR) is the number one workload that organizations plan to move to the cloud, according to a recent study from Zetta. Migrating DR to the cloud was a priority for 36 percent of IT professionals surveyed, ahead of

The multi-cloud model has become the norm. According to the RightScale 2017 State of the Cloud Report, organizations are using 1.8 public clouds while experimenting with 1.8 more, and leveraging 2.3 private clouds while experimenting with 2.1 more. That’s a