How Alliance Data Migrated Hyperion to Oracle Cloud

This free 1-hour webinar from GigaOm Research brings together experts on Composable Infrastructure, featuring GigaOm Analysts Ray Lucchesi, Steve Ginsberg, and Philip Sellers. The discussion will focus on how Composable Infrastructure can improve data center resource utilization for mixed application workloads. Ever since the emergence of high-end X86 servers, IT has been burdened with the concern of underutilized data center assets. With virtualization, admins could take advantage of increases in computation to apply excess CPU cycles for use by other applications or users.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) became buzzwords in 2018. But only two-fifths (39%) of senior executives believe their organizations are getting the most value out of AI and machine learning according to a RELX Emerging Tech Executive Report, which polled 1,000 US senior executives.

Most organizations now live in a multi-cloud world. Workloads can run on-premises one day and then in the cloud the next, only to return back to on-premises soon after. A challenge for organizations looking for this type of workload mobility is the differences between the infrastructures. As explained in prior blogs, current on-premises solutions, despite attempts to make them more cloud-like, haven’t worked. Most vendors forget that the public cloud is more than just a business model it is an actual way of doing business. On-premise solutions should mirror the flexibility – both in technology and economic – of the public cloud and best approach to achieve this is by leveraging composable infrastructure.

The IT infrastructure investments of yesteryear were fairly static rack-and-row compute, storage and networking. You invest and refresh every three to five years. Nothing ever changed. The passage of time and the explosion in technology have brought a commensurate need to modernize the IT infrastructure through software-defined infrastructure and hyperconverged appliances. Strategically, today’s IT infrastructure must offer greater access to more information. Indeed, IT infrastructure modernization is driven by faster computing speeds, greater scalability and more secure accessibility.