Chris Gibes

[sayit]Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is the fastest-growing category in data center infrastructure. The reasons for this are clear: This technology eliminates silos, simplifies management and enables scalability — three benefits that organizations need to support their digital transformation initiatives. Recently, much of the conversation about digital transformation has focused on containerization and application modernization. But I…

Many of the discussions I hear about data center modernization involve massive enterprises that focus on efforts such as incorporating automation throughout their data centers, containerizing applications for cross-environment portability and moving to a more agile app development process. Don’t get me wrong; all of these use cases are enormously valuable — for the right…

“A place for everything, and everything in its place." You’ve probably heard this familiar idiom encouraging tidiness. It also sums up the basic concept of hybrid storage. Enterprises seeking better ways to manage and organize their data, and the associated costs, can find new flexibility in hybrid solutions, which extend on-premises arrays into a hyperscale…

Data is your organization’s lifeblood. Can you afford to entrust it to an outsider? It’s a reasonable question, one that just about every enterprise asks when considering Software as a Service (SaaS) backup. But I believe a better question is, can you afford not to? Here’s why. For starters, a SaaS solution for backup eliminates…