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Introduction to Cloud Computing

A common understanding of “cloud computing” is continuously evolving, and the terminology and concepts used to define it often need clarifying. Press coverage can be vague or may not fully capture the extent of what cloud computing entails or represents, sometimes reporting how companies are making their solutions available in the “cloud” or how “cloud computing” is the way forward, but not examining the characteristics, models, and services involved in understanding what cloud computing is and what it can become.

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ALTEN Calsoft Labs

ALTEN Calsoft Labs is part of ALTEN Group ($2.5 Billion Company) , offering next gen digital transformation, enterprise IT and product engineering services. The company enables clients innovate, integrate, and transform their business by leveraging disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Mobility, big data, analytics, cloud, IoT and software-defined networking (SDN/NFV). The company also has a pool of 300 Clinical SAS consultants working with many Pharmaceutical , Medical Devices, CRO and Healthcare Companies.

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Tanzu Standard with VMware Cloud on Dell EMC

whitePaper | January 26, 2022

VMware Cloud on Dell EMC combines the simplicity and agility of the public cloud with the security and control of on-premises infrastructure delivered as a service to data center and edge locations. It is built upon on the latest VMware software-defined data center suite, including industry-leading compute, storage, and network virtualization that is optimized for Dell EMC VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure. It’s quick and easy to procure and delivers a cloud-style consumption model for a range of use cases.

Protecting Oracle Databases on VMware with Zerto

whitePaper | August 22, 2022

Zerto, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, delivers everything you need to protect virtualized and containerized infrastructures in a single, simple, and scalable cloud data management and protection solution. Zerto also provides sizing tools to design the Zerto protection environment to meet the needs of the application and database workload characteristics through a unique data analytics feature.

Intelligent Edge & Private Networks Center of Excellence

whitePaper | December 19, 2022

The Accenture-Cisco Center of Excellence is an international center integrated with ACIC+ and its catalogue with a hub in Rome in the Accenture Cloud Innovation Center and one in Milan, in the Cisco Cybersecurity Co-Innovation Center as well as a Demo Center at Equinix’s datacenter ML5. The Center will leverage Market leader software-defined solutions for DC, WAN and LAN, Security for both corporate and industrial sites, to establish, based on Equinix Fabric and network edge catalog, a direct and low latency cloud interconnection through its resilient facilities to main cloud providers (MAG). The benefits of having Equinix in this architecture are numerous in terms of lower IT costs thanks to consumption-based billing, faster time-to-market and rapid innovation that supports large scale-up with fluid and real-time service enablement, plus monitoring from a single portal.

GUARDICORE MORE AND FASTER EFFECTIVE-COST THAN SEGMENTATION NSX VM

whitePaper | December 27, 2022

Learn the three key advantages of Guardicore Centra that make it the faster and more cost-effective microsegmentation solution compared with VMware NSX.

VMware Blockchainfor Capital Markets

whitePaper | October 10, 2022

The number of financial institutions exploring enterprise blockchain networks to address multiple market forces is growing. Based on VMware customers and supported by The Value Exchange’s 2021 research on 150 financial institutions, the adoption of blockchain-based distributed ledger technologies (DLT) is already underway.

Virtualized RAN Challenges Debunked

whitePaper | January 17, 2020

Mobile network operators (MNOs) are now considering ways to take advantage of the benefits that Virtualized RAN (vRAN) can deliver. vRAN gives MNOs greater network availability and better deployment flexibility using pooled, centralized resources that are operating on standardized commercially available hardware. The virtualized functions that provide the network’s baseband processing in vRANs also lower CAPEX and OPEX by reducing cell site real-estate space and the power needs of the equipment that no longer resides on-site.

Introduction to Cloud Computing