Scalability in IT systems is a fundamental requirement. Most compute environments need to grow, or at least have that capability as business expands, etc., so infrastructure choices are often made based on products’ abilities to meet this demand for resources....
Read More »My wife works for our local school department as an IT support specialist assigned to the town's largest elementary school. Like many U.S. elementary schools, kids and teachers use a variety of personal computing devices, including PCs, notebooks, and now...
Read More »It is often said that data center-level server virtualization projects created a renewed demand for networked storage, both NAS and SAN. If that's true, then efforts to virtualize desktops--aka virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects--will create renewed demand for high-performance storage,...
Read More »As we see more companies begin Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments, we spend more time explaining storage issues related both to server virtualization and VDI. VDI deployments depend heavily on the intelligent usage of storage and on high-capability storage systems....
Read More »I recently gave a presentation at a small gathering of IT "enthusiasts" in Albany, N.Y. I say "enthusiasts" because the audience was an eclectic mix of IT technologists and people with advanced expertise in non-IT fields. For example, I met...
Read More »The storage-focused BD Event wrapped up last week in Boston after two and a half days of presentations and networking for the enterprise storage industry--executives meeting up with executives in a kind of industry-focused, back to old college days mixer....
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