Brandon Jackson

It’s been about three years since NetApp bought SolidFire, a maker of all-flash storage systems for data center applications. The acquisition was part of NetApp’s new Data Fabric strategy, which promised to simplify management across on-premises and cloud resources. Today, that work is paying off for organizations looking to transform their data environments with hyperconverged…

— Written by Troy Brick-Margelofsky, Brandon Jackson and Stephan Stelter Public cloud, just like private cloud, has advantages and disadvantages, depending on the circumstances in which it is used. That’s why almost every organization will gravitate toward some combination of cloud solutions that best achieves its business goals, performance expectations and requirements for security and…

Last week, Nutanix held its annual conference Nutanix .NEXT. As always with Nutanix, there was a tremendous amount of buzz and energy around the company and announcements at the event. For those who were unable to attend, I wanted to write a little bit about my thoughts and reactions to some of the major items…

— by Brandon Jackson, Jennifer Lugo, Jason Owens and Jesse Wiener There has been a lot of information and articles published over the last few days regarding what some initially reported as a security issue with Intel CPUs. As more research and information has become available, some of the details previously announced appear to have…

A recent (automated for most users) update to Adobe Flash Player embedded within the latest updates to Chrome and Firefox browsers causes the VMware vSphere Web Client 6.x (all versions) to crash and not load. There is no fix as of today, as Adobe is working on a new Flash version to publish, but there…

At VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, VMware named CDW its HCI Partner of the Year for 2017. Here is what the VMware National Partner Management team had to say about CDW's success in the commercial, enterprise, government, education and healthcare sectors: “CDW’s robust commitment to VMware HCI is evident across all regions, segments and verticals. Their…

Today, NetApp held a public launch event on their website to announce their new directions for Data Fabric and data management. One of the many highlights of the presentation was the announcement of the new NetApp HCI platform. Dale Degan (director, product marketing, SolidFire products and solutions) spoke at length about the exciting new offering…

Today’s post covers Eaton’s Integrated Power Management (IPM) software and how it can benefit data center administrators with managing power across a heterogeneous environment. IPM is a software solution from Eaton that provides a set of tools to monitor and manage power devices in both physical and virtual infrastructures. IPM helps ensure data integrity and…

VMware recently released vSphere 6.5, which brings great new features and enhancements to both the hypervisor and vCenter. This post briefly discusses these features. vSphere Web Client and HTML5 vSphere Client VMware continues to improve its web interface. The old C# client is no longer part of the vSphere 6.5 release, replaced by an enhanced…

Cloud deployment models have certainly made a comeback in 2016. What started as a mad rush a few years ago to move everything to the “cloud” (if you remember, most people had air quotes around the word cloud in their minds back then) turned into a mass exodus back into the data center a year…