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By Richard Arneson As the name suggests, DevOps is the shortened combination of two (2) words―development and operations. Originally, application development was time-consuming, fraught with errors and bugs, and, ultimately, resulted in the bane of the business world―slow to market. Prior to DevOps, which addresses that slow to market issue,

Cisco Cloud Security Solutions

By Richard Arneson Every organization has, has plans to, or wants to move to The Cloud. And by 2020, most will be there. According to a recent survey, within two (2) years 83% of enterprise workloads will be in The Cloud―41% on public Clouds, like AWS and Microsoft Azure, 20%

Flash Storage vs Flash Memory

By Richard Arneson We’ve all been pretty well trained to believe that, at least in the IT industry, anything defined or labeled as “flash” is a good thing. It conjures up thoughts of speed (“in a flash”), which is certainly one of most operative words in the industry―everybody wants “it”

MSP Best Practices

By Richard Arneson It’s not hard to find a Managed Services Provider (MSP); the hard part is finding the right one. Of course, there are many, many things to consider when evaluating MSPs, including the quality of its NOC and SOC (don’t forget the all-important SOC), the level of experienced

HPE Gen10 Servers

By Richard Arneson In June, HPE announced the creation of its New Compute Experience, which is powered by its Gen10 servers, one of the IT industry’s most secure pieces of equipment. HPE is the first equipment vendor to place silicon-based security into its servers, which addresses firmware attacks, one of

HPE Synergy Composable Infrastructure

By Richard Arneson In 2016, HPE introduced the first composable infrastructure solution to the marketplace. Actually, they didn’t just introduce the first solution, they created the market. HPE recognized, along with other vendors and customers, some of the limitations inherent in hyperconvergence, which provided enterprise data centers a cloud-like experience

Composable infrastructure vs Hyperconvergence

By Richard Arneson You can’t flip through a trade pub for more than twenty (20) seconds without reading one of these two (2) words, probably both: composable and hyperconvergence. Actually, there’s an extremely good chance you’ll see them together, considering both provide many of the same benefits to enterprise data

Fog Computing vs Edge Computing

By Richard Arneson Just when everybody got comfortable bandying about the cloud, along comes another meteorology-related tech term―fog. Yes, we now have Fog Computing. While in its infancy (in fact, the OpenFog Consortium was created only three (3) short years ago), it will likely become another oft-used word in the

Intent-Based Networking

By Richard Arneson You may or may not have heard of it, but if you fall into the latter, it won’t be long until you do―probably a lot. Network management has always been associated with several words, none of them very appealing to IT professionals: manual, time-consuming and tedious. An