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Building a talented team isn’t just about finding the best people for the job; it’s about keeping them, too. There’s a talent shortage out there; there’s no doubt about it—especially in IT. Technology is quickly evolving; in-house teams don’t have the bandwidth to keep up, let alone keep up with the rate of change, often […]

Leverage the power of the public cloud for backup and recovery. Managing the backup and restoration of virtual machines (VMs) in a distributed environment is typically an expensive and convoluted process requiring multiple staff members supporting a complex architecture of legacy data management systems. IT operations teams often spend more than 70 percent of their

Container technology has revolutionized IT, but storage technology hasn’t kept pace—until now. In an ever-changing, multi-cloud world, businesses are under intense pressure to deploy new applications quickly. The answer is modern, container-driven application architectures. Containers are dramatically more lightweight than virtual machines, offer increased application density, and the ability to move applications between clouds, bare

Outages occur, but knowing what to do and learning from the problem can make the difference. In Part I of this conversation, I discussed the frustrating experience of dealing with a Sev1 outage on a Friday afternoon—no fun for anyone! Outages will likely never entirely be avoided, but there are a number of things you

About to invest in a brand new spine and leaf system? Hold on—there’s a better way. The days of guestimating your growth are over. Plexxi HCN hyper-converged networking allows you to build the data center you need now, and grow your network as you grow your business. Building a network in the traditional spine and leaf

Over the past few years, the cloud has gone from trending innovation to mainstream technology solution. There are dozens of cloud-based technology products on the market, but three go one step further, changing the economics of technology and the ingestion of cloud value. Whether your company has already completed a digital transformation or you’re just

Georgia’s first conference dedicated to innovation and entrepreneurship that is shaping the future of agriculture Imagine cows choosing when they want to be milked by robots, significantly increasing their milk production. Imagine an app that allows a farmer to snap a picture of a blighted leaf, and then be able to obtain a pathogen diagnosis

When Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced plans to acquire Nimble Storage last year, there was some head-scratching in the storage array business. The acquisition seemed to fill a hole for customers seeking a dedicated, non-clustered array, but as one tech expert at the time asked, “What were they thinking?” Now we know. Earlier this month,

2018 .NEXT Conference Recap and Product Highlights from Nutanix A week ago, Nutanix held the fourth .NEXT conference in New Orleans. What started as a small gathering of a few hundred people in Miami, has grown to about 5,800 attendees from all corners of the world. The exponential growth of the conference reflects the popularity

Regardless of the root cause, outage bridges are a fact of life in every organization. But they shouldn’t have to be. It’s Friday at 4PM and the call comes in. You’ve just lost production apps—and it’s your customer letting you know. The clock starts ticking, the adrenaline is flowing, and you begin the process of