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VMware backup: Key decision points if you migrate away from VMware

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Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware for US$69bn led to disruptive changes in the virtualisation provider’s pricing. Key here is a move from perpetual licences to a subscription model. This has left some enterprises facing higher costs, with some considering a move to alternative virtualisation environments. For those considering that, the challenge is to ensure any…

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Where IT comes from: Pure Storage’s lean Czech assembly

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As with Pure Storage’s research and development (R&D) efforts, its final product assembly also rests on a three-site system. Flash arrays put together at regional sites – two in Texas and one in Czechia – cater for regional demand. We visited its European assembly location in Pardubice, Czechia, to see how it works. Pure occupies…

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Where IT comes from: Behind the scenes at Pure Storage’s European R&D centre

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You’re a $2.8bn storage supplier with flash arrays at the core of your business. How do you do research and development (R&D), test new products, test customer workload issues, and test array products over years-long timescales for issues that only arise as software, network and application changes concatenate and interact? Meanwhile, you are a global…

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