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VCE: Driving the Velocity of Change within the IT industry
Archie Hendryx
11 days ago
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With a need for a more focused and refined understanding of what Cloud service level agreements should be and ultimately a more concerted approach towards the applications, Cloud C...
VCE Accelerates Private Cloud Deployments from Months to Weeks
Archie Hendryx
Dec 17, 2012
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One of the major criticisms of private clouds is that the end user still has to build, manage and maintain the infrastructure to the extent that they are continuing the ‘keeping th...
SAP HANA's Real Time Challenge to the Oracle Empire
Archie Hendryx
Dec 2, 2012
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SAP HANA promised to not just make databases dramatically faster like traditional business warehouse accelerator systems but instead speed up the front end, enabling companies to r...
SplitRXMode - Taking VMware Multicasting to the Next Level
Archie Hendryx
Nov 11, 2012
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SplitRXMode may be an overlooked feature in vSphere 5 but for anyone thinking of virtualising multicasting applications it's essential.
CIO Success Simplified in 3 Steps
Archie Hendryx
Nov 4, 2012
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A CIO should not be concerned with buying technology from different silos and vendors but instead acquiring solutions that solve business problems.
Visible Ops & the Road to a Vblock
Archie Hendryx
Sep 26, 2012
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What if the approach to infrastructure was one of a green fields approach or seamless migration to a pretested, pre-validated, pre-integrated, prebuilt and preconfigured product i....
VMware's Cloud Monitoring Plan begins with vCenter Operations
Archie Hendryx
Aug 7, 2012
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Are VMware slowly becoming the new Oracle? That was the question being asked after the backlash to their initial vRAM licensing model at the launch of vSphere 5. With VMware’s some...
Supporting IT Growth Demand During Uncertain Economic Times
Greg Schulz
Apr 30, 2012
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Doing more with less, doing more with what you have or reducing cost have been the mantra for the past several years now.
Converged Infrastructure vs Reference Architecture - Cloud IaaS Choices
Archie Hendryx
Apr 22, 2012
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From the remnants and ashes of all these new product names and fancy launch conferences, the resultant war blogs and Twitterati battles ensued. As I poignantly watched on from the ...
I/O Virtualization (IOV) Revisited
Greg Schulz
Apr 9, 2012
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Is I/O Virtualization (IOV) a server topic, a network topic, or a storage topic?
Is FCoE Struggling to Gain Traction, or on a Normal Adoption Course?
Greg Schulz
Mar 23, 2012
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If you measure FCoE adoption in months, sure, its been slow to gain adoption and deployment similar to how Ethernet, Fibre Channel (FC) and even iSCSI took time to evolve.
Cisco UCS: Undisputed Computing Success
Archie Hendryx
Mar 19, 2012
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Back in March 2009, when Cisco announced the launch of their UCS platform and subsequent intention to enter the world of server hardware, eyebrows were raised including my own. The...
The Data Storage Prayer
Greg Schulz
Mar 16, 2012
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For those who follow or are involved with data storage religiously with a passion, then this is for you. As for others who do not get or understand what this is about, just ask tho...
StorageIO Momentus Hybrid Hard Disk Drive (HHDD) Moments
Greg Schulz
Mar 12, 2012
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If you have never done a HDD firmware update, its not as bad or intimidating as might be expected. The Seagate firmware update tools make it very easy, that is assuming you have a ...
From Bits to Bytes: Decoding Encoding
Greg Schulz
Mar 5, 2012
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With networking, care should be taken to understand if a given speed or performance capacity is being specified in bits or bytes as well as in base 2 (binary) or base 10 (decimal)
Cloud Conversations: Loss of Data Access vs. Data Loss
Greg Schulz
Feb 27, 2012
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Have you hugged your cloud or MSP lately?
As the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) Continues to Spin
Greg Schulz
Feb 22, 2012
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Despite having been repeatedly declared dead at the hands of some new emerging technology over the past several decades, the Hard Disk Drive (HDD) continues to evolve as it moves t...
What Do VARs and Clouds As Well As MSPs Have in Common?
Greg Schulz
Feb 16, 2012
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What do VARs and Clouds as well as MSPs have in common? Several things it turns out...
RAID Relevance Revisited
Greg Schulz
Feb 14, 2012
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While there are many new and evolving approaches to protecting data in addition to maintaining availability or accessibility to information, RAID despite the fan fare is far from b...
PUE, Are you Managing Power, Energy or Productivity?
Greg Schulz
Feb 9, 2012
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With a renewed focus on Green IT including energy Efficiency and Optimization of servers, storage, networks and facilities, is your focus on managing power, energy, or, productivit...
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