While the promise of DataOps seems strong, it's important to understand how the two concepts are the same and how they are different. For example, DataOps isn't just DevOps applied to data analytics. While the two methodologies have a common theme of establishing new, streamlined collaboration, DevOps responds to organizational challenges in developing and continuously deploying applications. DataOps, on the other hand, responds to similar challenges but around the collaborative development of data flows, and the continuous use of data across the organization.
A new four-part series was launched on April 8th 2020. CBR joins Hitachi Vantara CTO, Tom Christensen for the first of a sponsored four-part series on "Intelligent Infrastructure".
Read MoreIn the first of our four-part series on intelligent infrastructure, Computer Business Review joins Hitachi Vantara CTO Tom Christensen to talk building AI into automation engines across an infrastructure estate, in order to optimise performance.
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CBR has teamed up with Hitachi Vantara to host a series of Dining Club events looking at the changing role of the chief information officer, the growing importance of information value extraction and the reasons for championing DataOps as a methodology of choice.
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The bottom line for any enterprise is just that: the bottom line. As such, each investment and any future planning that a company makes must show ROI.
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The bottom line for any enterprise is just that: the bottom line. As such, each investment and any future planning that a company makes must show ROI. Today, enterprise business is completely dependent on technology, and many companies are tech businesses. As a business grows and expands, it requires more technology. Until the advent of cloud computing, to scale (grow) technology, businesses needed to continuously invest in updating, maintaining, and training with new hardware and software. To keep current required significant capital and space, and often created a lot of waste. While companies could amortize their investments in hardware, there was no way to recoup money put into aging software.
Until the advent of cloud computing, to scale (grow) technology, businesses needed to continuously invest in updating, maintaining, and training with new hardware and software. To keep current required significant capital and space, and often created a lot of waste. While companies could amortize their investments in hardware, there was no way to recoup money put into aging software.
What most lay-people don’t understand is the value of a company migrating from on-premise to the cloud. The great thing is, an enterprise migration is an investment that will yield returns which will benefit not only the company but their shareholders and customers as well. And, cloud migrations are beneficial for businesses of all sizes, small, medium, and enterprise.
The cloud: Flexible and adaptable
For further explanation, use the analogy of a house as server space, and the owners of the house are a couple whose children are grown. When the couple first bought the house, they knew they wanted to create a family, have children and pets, and entertain often. So they purchased a house they could grow into, even though they didn’t need all of the space right away. They knew they wouldn’t even use the basement until the kids were teenagers. Until that time, the basement tended to collect a lot of junk and would flood a bit every time it rained for more than three days. Eventually, the children grew up, and the parents turned the basement into a fun place for the kids to hang out with their friends. Over the years, they also modernized the kitchen and the bathrooms and even redid the wood floors.
As the years passed, and the children started families of their own, the parents’ home was no longer the center of family life. So, the parents were left with this great looking house that was too big and required too much upkeep.
Now, if you’re a company with on-premise computing, you’re kind of in the same situation. You want to be able to grow and provide for innovation and diversification without being bogged down by outdated and under-utilized resources. Today, to leverage the most out of technology, a business must be flexible and agile. Migrating your on-premise apps to the cloud is the best way to ensure you’ll be able to grow with ease and make your apps accessible when they most need to be.
No business offering is in demand at the same pace, in the same amount, in the same location, by the same demographics, at the same time. This goes for all businesses, from small mom and pop coffee shops to multinational conglomerates. A quick example is retail. The most important season for retail shopping is the period leading up to Christmas, bar none. But for the rest of the year, shopping only has minor lifts. So, if you’re a company in retail with an online presence, your website and apps get a lot of traffic during the holiday season, but not so much the rest of the year. Maintaining the on-premise tech year-round to support one month of holiday traffic would be a waste of money and resources. On the other hand, not being able to meet customer demand during the most important season would be catastrophic for the business.
Knowing where to start: Rehost and Refine
Here’s the thing. In concept, migrating to the cloud seems like a very sound investment to make. The problem is knowing where to start. At least that’s what Cloud Academy has heard from some of our clients. If you’re considering a cloud migration there are a few general ideas to keep in mind: First and foremost, make a plan. Second, if you’ve been successful with on-premise management, you’re going to do fantastic with cloud migration and management—once you’ve migrated your apps, it’s basically everything you’ve done before without the headache of space design and immense hardware maintenance.
Hitachi Vantara, has bought Herndon, Virginia-based REAN Cloud for an undisclosed sum.
This acquisition will "reinforce Hitachi Vantara's ability to accelerate secure enterprise cloud adoption across multicloud environments and strengthen its ability to manage and operate traditional applications as well as emerging workloads in artificial intelligence and machine learning",
Hitachi Vantara was formed in 2017 through a merger of Hitachi Data Systems, Hitachi Insight Group and Pentaho.
The company highlighted REAN's "deep hyperscale expertise and industry-leading infrastructure-as-code REAN Cloud Accelerator Platform" as key assets of interest.
REAN Rated by Gartner
The company's Chief Solutions Officer, Bobby Soni, said in a post published on Tuesday, that: "REAN [are] one of the few [companies] that can support the entire cloud services life cycle… They are quite the company!"
He pointed to REAN's status of AWS Premier Consulting Partner and Microsoft Azure Silver Partner, along with its inclusion in research house Gartner's magic quadrant for public cloud infrastructure as attractions.
"With 47Lining's capabilities [a machine learning and big data company acquired by REAN Cloud last year], REAN Cloud also delivers customized solutions for IoT analytics, predictive analytics and machine learning, allowing customers to more quickly unlock new business opportunities."
"Our global customers across the Hitachi, Ltd., ecosystem are driving their own digital transformations to create competitive advantages in the marketplace," said Brian Householder, chief executive officer of Hitachi Vantara.
"Modernized infrastructure running both on and off premises and intelligent data governance and analytics are the foundational pillars of digital transformations. REAN Cloud powerfully extends Hitachi Ltd.’s existing portfolio for customers and partners in these areas."
