Video games, as with all gaming, have almost always included a competitive element, even in the earliest video games such as Pong. However, it wasn’t until the early 2000s that technological innovations provided the environment for esports to thrive. Broadband Internet allowed gamers to join multiplayer competitions, first through local area network connections (a LAN ...

This research brief explores what drives operational efficiency and provides a “best of both worlds” infrastructure solution to deliver a consistent hybrid-cloud experience. We will examine the journey to hybrid cloud and how IT teams can make informed decisions based on organization-specific needs. This brief will also explore how Dell Technologies is well-positioned to enable ...

Enterprises are actively modernizing their IT infrastructure to support digital transformation initiatives and drive greater operational efficiencies. ESG research demonstrates that organizations are taking advantage of public cloud services (IaaS & SaaS) and upgrading their on-premises infrastructure to create robust hybrid clouds. Based on experiences with public cloud vendors, many of these organizations are now ...

Organizations must empower, inspire, and enable their employees to serve their customers better. And employees want the best technology, devices, and applications at their fingertips to do so. As organizations continue their journeys toward digitizing the workplace, the technology environment and the ecosystem play an increasingly important role in employees’ working lives. Employees want to ...

Large numbers of manufacturing and engineering firms are gaining productivity, efficiency and competitive advantages from giving their professionals powerful workstation technologies for their daily tasks. In this white paper, we will look at some of the reasons why it’s sensible for engineering and manufacturing businesses to choose workstations over high-end PCs when it comes to ...

For organizations looking to the cloud as a disaster recovery option, Dell EMC Cloud Disaster Recovery (Cloud DR) allows enterprises to copy backed-up VMs from their on-premises PowerProtect DD using Data Protection Suite, Integrated Data Protection Appliance, or PowerProtect Data Manager environments to the public cloud (AWS, AWS GovCloud, Azure) to orchestrate DR testing, failover ...

IDC interviewed organizations using Dell Technologies On Demand (DTOD) usage-based payment solutions, specifically Flex On Demand and Data Center Utility, to understand the solutions’ impact on their costs, agility, and business results. Study participants credited moving to a flexible consumption model with Dell Technologies’ storage solutions with better sizing their environments and optimizing their capacity ...

Today, as AI becomes mainstream, many organizations find themselves in the initial proof-of-concept (POC) stage; only a few are in full production. IDC’s 2019 Artificial Intelligence Global Adoption Trends and Strategies Survey found that 18% of organizations had AI models in production, 16% were in the POC stage, and 15% were experimenting with AI. Learn ...

This report provides a brief introduction to Dell EMC’s PowerStore mid-range storage appliance and documents ESG’s testing that was focused on VMware integration and the distinctive AppsON feature, enabling organizations to run VMs directly on the appliance without external servers. IT’s job has changed dramatically in the last few years, as IT organizations have been ...

Digital transformation (DX) is a hot topic in most enterprises today. DX drives a host of new business requirements that challenge legacy infrastructure, and information technology (IT) organizations are upgrading to new server and storage platforms at a rapid rate to meet them. Although the enterprise storage market overall continues to grow, revenue for storage ...