The ability for people to be able to buy food and essential supplies, in-store IT and data infrastructure must be kept running. Jeff Miller, Director of IT at Jerry’s Foods, a national chain with fifty grocery, retail, hardware, and liquor stores, knows this reality very well. Miller explains that each Jerry’s Foods franchise includes many […]
Traditional SAN and Virtual SAN (vSAN): What to Choose?
Click to learn more about author George Williams. Whether it’s time to deploy a platform for new projects, set up a CRM server, or build a data center suitable for an industry-standard hypervisor, there comes a time in every IT manager or storage administrator’s career when they’re confronted with this question: “Should I use a […]
Case Study: Data Protection and HCI for Carrs Tool Data Architecture Upgrade
“Existing conditions” is a term for conditions that don’t last very long. Amazon changed the face of retail. Google democratized access to information. Facebook and pretty much every social media site has changed the way we interact with each other. Change came to Carrs Tool Steels, too. The U.K. supplier of tool steel and high-strength […]
vSAN: Answering the What’s, How’s, and Why’s
Click to learn more about author George Williams. vSAN or virtual SAN has become an integral part of most enterprise IT infrastructures. It’s the next step for organizations that relied primarily on SAN appliances. In this blog post, I’ll discuss the basics of virtual SANs and attempt to answer the what’s, how’s, and why’s for […]
Case Study: JTC Grows its Cloud Services Core through Trust and Teamwork
Trust, teamwork, and technology form the core of Jewell Technical Consulting, Inc. (JTC) and its partnership with Leaseweb USA, a leading hosting and cloud services company whose offerings include Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions. JTC, a company providing private cloud services to North Virginia and D.C. metro businesses, was originally utilizing another hosting facility 20 miles way […]
Storage Management 101: Centralized Helps
Click to learn more about author George Williams. This is the second article in a series of articles that focus on data storage management. In this article series, we’re discussing tips and insights on making life easier for data center owners. This article is focused on centralized data storage management. The first article in the […]
Storage Management 101: Flexibility Matters
Click to learn more about author George Williams. This is the first in a series of articles that will focus on the basics of data storage management. This series of articles will share useful insights and tips to facilitate the data storage management journey for data center administrators and owners. Part 2 is: Storage Management […]
Bringing Hyperconvergence Architecture and VDIs to Everyone
A hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) uses software and/or hardware to create an IT infrastructure that virtualizes all of the needed elements to create an efficient and highly functional computer processing system. An HCI includes compute, networking, and a storage combined together in a virtualized environment, and normally runs on easily purchased, off-the-shelf commercial servers. The primary […]
Edge Computing and VDI: A Match Made in IT Heaven
Click to learn more about author Alan Conboy. Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has enjoyed relative steady growth since its introduction in 2006, as it offered key benefits to those that wished to move desktop management from a local environment to a virtualized one. Initially, from a technology standpoint, a key reason for doing this was […]
DataCore Announces a Unified Vision for the Storage Industry; Introduces Analytics Service
According to a new press release, “DataCore Software today announced DataCore™ ONE, its vision for storage infrastructure, designed to accelerate the adoption of software-defined storage (SDS) in enterprise data centres, the cloud and edge computing; centralising command and control of different classes of storage spanning primary, secondary and archive. The company also announced the availability […]