Prior to COVID-19, most organizations had remote work capabilities in place. But, the pandemic has caused even the most-prepared IT leaders to re-evaluate their readiness to support remote work, at scale. To gain insights into the IT capabilities necessary to ensure business continuity and workforce productivity, now and for the “next norm”, we conducted a TechValidate1 survey to our customer base in April 2020.

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Having many different storage requirements no longer means you need a complex mix of storage. With the IBM FlashSystem family, you have one platform to address entry, mid-range and high-end needs. FlashSystem all-flash and hybrid-flash arrays are built on a unified set of software, tools and APIs, which extends enterprise functionality throughout the storage estate, simplifies hybrid multi-cloud and is designed for complete peace of mind. It’s not just for big businesses. Use this ebook to learn how IBM FlashSystem helps you protect, manage and ...

The move toward public cloud, heightened concerns over ransomware, and complexities associated with backup and data management are forcing I&O leaders to rearchitect their backup infrastructure and explore alternative solutions. This research provides analyses of backup and recovery vendors.
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Most organizations have too much data, which is growing too quickly and is difficult to consolidate. This prevents them from adequately analyzing their data and capitalizing on its value. A hybrid multi-cloud-enabled storage infrastructure that modernizes traditional workloads and is optimized to run next-generation workloads can help these organizations operate as dynamic ‘data-driven’ enterprises.

Learn how you can harness the power of data and get a competitive advantage from it.
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Multicloud deployments are now the norm for enterprise organizations, with a mix of public cloud solutions — SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS — and private cloud environments, either on-premises or with a provider. Most organizations leverage different cloud platforms across multiple service providers because no single cloud environment or cloud provider can meet their needs for application, data, and infrastructure support. The movement of applications and data between these different environments today is at an all-time high. This application “churn” nec ...