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disaster recovery in the cloud

When organizations first began to realize that they’d become reliant on their computer systems, a new service was invented, or, at least, was needed―Disaster Recovery. Prior to that, disaster recovery meant little more than making sure your insurance premiums were paid up. This new reliance on computers―primarily due to mainframes

Flash Blade an AI

By Richard Arneson If you are in any way connected to the IT industry, you can’t, and haven’t been able to for years, take a breath without stumbling across the word Flash. With apologies to the superhero created prior to World War II, flash was, as early as twenty (20)

HPEs acquisition of Plexxi

By Richard Arneson In May of this year, HPE announced its purchase of Plexxi, an eight-year-old, Boston-based company that set the IT world on fire based on this one (1) idea: data center networking needed to be less complicated, yet more powerful. They combined software-defined networking with intent-based automation that

Container Orchestration

By Richard Arneson Containers, if you recall from last week’s blogs, pull from the application layer and package code and related application dependencies into one (1) neat, tidy package. Remember, this provides a step up from hypervisors, which require each VM to run their own OS, making them less efficient,

virtual machine or container

By Richard Arneson Containers have been around for years, but we’ll leave its history for another blog. Hypervisors, if you recall, are software that manage virtual machines (VMs), each of which can run its own programs but gives the appearance of running the host hardware’s memory, processor and resources. Hypervisors

Dell EMC VxRail appliances

By Richard Arneson If your organization isn’t on, or planning to get on, the road to hyperconvergence (HCI), you may soon be left waiving at your competitors as the HCI train flies by. A recent industry study found that approximately 25% of companies currently use hyperconvergence, and another 23% plan

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”

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