Joann Starke

Everywhere you look, the industry is talking about applications. They generate revenue and run your business. Assuring your applications’ performance requires stable data center resources allocated in just the right size to meet demand. How does your business allocate resources?  Most over provision…

Cloud and software-defined technologies continue to reshape traditional data centers.  Companies turning to cloud to deliver consistent services and processes have found that they can deliver elastic, safe and flexible services at the speed and expectations of their customers.  They have also discov…

On July 10, 2017, Cisco introduced the next generation of UCS servers,UCS M5; that deliver simplicity, performance and a future-proofed design.   But along with new servers, Cisco also announced enhancements to its data center and cloud portfolio. Data centers are complex environments and forecasts…

Workloads are forecasted to grow 26% over the next three years.   Yet the business is only funding increases of 3% to IT budgets.  How will your business address this gap? Organizations are turning to automation, digitalization of processes and intent-based analytics to support year over year worklo…

Application performance is vital to your business success.  Assuring application performance requires that the right amount of infrastructure is delivered to the right workload, at the right time. How do you currently allocate resources to assure performance?  Do you guess?  Overprovision for busine…

It’s all about customer experience in the digital world and that experience depends on the performance of your applications and their supporting infrastructure.  At a time when applications and technologies continue to increase in volume and density, how can you be sure your applications are running…

Pressure to transform is coming from every direction:  customers, competitors, heads of departments and the C-suite.  Convert high cost manual services to lower cost automated ones.  Create development environments or place applications into multiple clouds.  Change the way employees and customers i…

Digital transformation has created a sense of urgency to adopt “as a service” business models, such as hybrid cloud.  Hybrid cloud delivers speed and agility.  Users are empowered to deploy workloads across multiple cloud platforms.  Your business stays compliant and safe.  Business and…

We live in a world dominated by digital. As consumers, it is second nature to expect instant access to data, on demand ordering and fast service delivery.  But when we change from consumers to employees our experience is quite different. Offering a consumer-like experience requires conversion from m…