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Azure Stack Hybrid Cloud Appeals to MSPs, HCI, Data Center – ITPro Today Blog by Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Monday, May 4th 2020

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This is the third in a series of articles on making hybrid cloud a reality. The first two looked at Google Anthos and AWS Outposts. In this article we’ll examine Microsoft’s Azure Stack hybrid cloud family (which includes Azure Stack...

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Google Anthos: Hybrid Cloud on Your Infrastructure – ITPro Today Blog by Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Monday, April 6th 2020

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This second in a series of articles, on making hybrid cloud a reality, looks at Google Anthos, how it works, the deployment options, how it compares with AWS Outposts and who should consider it. Read the first installment here.  The...

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Value of Face-to-Face Meetings and Events

By Randy Kerns, Monday, April 6th 2020

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The challenging time we are in has led to many creative approaches to continue operations in some manner.  In the information technology industry, the work-from-home concept has been taken to a new level, straining network connections in some locales.  Online...

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Cloud Services Providers: Please Make Healthcare A Priority – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Monday, April 6th 2020

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In my last blog post I mentioned that hospital information systems now face multiple challenges. Their systems are now being called upon to support medical staff dealing with an unplanned-for influx of new COVID-19 patients needing critical care. On top of that,...

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COVID 19 – The New IT Reality – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, March 31st 2020

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I and one of my co-workers are now engaged in a research project to determine how the impact COVID 19 and the resulting social distancing measures are impacting enterprise IT.  The impact is significant and cause for a pause to...

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AWS Outposts: Enabling Hybrid Cloud – ITPro Today Blog by Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Wednesday, March 11th 2020

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In the first of a series of articles on methods for making hybrid cloud a reality, we examine AWS Outposts, explaining how it works, how it compares cost-wise with non-hybrid AWS cloud services and who should consider it. On paper,...

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How Technology Trends are Changing CI and HCI Solutions – ITPro Today Blog by Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Wednesday, February 19th 2020

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From AI and advanced analytics to edge computing, containers and more – today's top technology trends are bringing new life to converged and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions. There are several big technology trends whose impact is being felt throughout the data...

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Can IBM’s New Duopoly Produce A Unifying Vision? – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Sunday, February 16th 2020

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IBM has announced the replacement of current CEO Ginni Rometty with a duopoly – Arvind Krishna as CEO with Jim Whitehurst as President. Why? And, why? Reading the published reports on the reasons for succession, it becomes clear that Ginni Rometty’s tenure...

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Storage Briefings Roundup: Computational Storage, Micro Edge – ITPro Today Blog by Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Monday, January 13th 2020

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Evaluator Group looks back at 2019 storage briefings, highlighting four products in three technology areas (computational storage, software-defined servers and micro edge computing). As an analyst with Evaluator Group, I receive storage industry briefings several times a week. While many are...

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NetApp Insight 2019 – Where Is the Last Big Independent Data Storage Company Headed? – Forbes blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, December 10th 2019

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NetApp was founded in 1992 as a producer of small to midrange file servers. It gained early traction when users found that they could consolidate multiple Windows file servers down to one NetApp box. NetApp went on to take-on all...

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