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Troy Brick-Margelofsky


Troy Brick-Margelofsky is a data center solution architect team lead with a focus on NetApp. He is responsible for the technical enablement of a team of inside and field solution architects, focusing on innovative, forward-thinking data center solutions comprised of technologies from CDW’s largest data center partners. Troy has been in the IT industry for more than 25 years and with CDW for the past 11 years.

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Introducing Enterprise-Grade NetApp Flash Storage at an Entry-Level Price

Ready to ditch spinning disks? The NetApp AFF C190 array is an affordable choice that doesn’t cut corners on performance or features.

By Troy Brick-Margelofsky
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August 14, 2019
Data Center

All-flash is no longer the future of storage — it’s the present. The adoption of all-flash storage arrays has accelerated greatly in the past year, with sales totaling nearly $2.5 billion in the first quarter of 2019. Greater reliability, reduced power consumption and simplified management are three major reasons why organizations are moving to flash.…

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What Does NVMe Mean for the Enterprise?

A new protocol is taking over storage. Here’s what IT pros need to know.

By Troy Brick-Margelofsky
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March 18, 2019
Data Center, Networking

Sometimes, instead of evolving slowly, technology takes a giant leap forward. When this happens for one part of IT, everything else effectively becomes a bottleneck, and further changes must take place to bring the rest of the IT environment up to the new standard of performance. This has happened recently with storage. After flash storage…

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Transform Your Infrastructure with NetApp HCI

Hyperconvergence offers guaranteed performance and independently scaling nodes.

By Troy Brick-Margelofsky  and Brandon Jackson
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December 18, 2018
Data Center, Cloud, Services

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…

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How the NetApp and Cisco FlexPod Collaboration Delivers Proven Hybrid Cloud Value to Healthcare Providers

As data centers move toward simplified infrastructures and more complex workloads, healthcare organizations need to rethink their architecture.

By Troy Brick-Margelofsky
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December 5, 2018
Cloud, Data Center

– Written by Troy Brick-Margelofsky and Stephan Stelter.  It seems like every year the data center conversation turns more and more around the need for IT simplification. Terms such as “data center modernization,” “digital transformation,” “private cloud,” “public cloud,” “hybrid cloud,” “automation” and “orchestration” hold the promise of a simpler, more efficient infrastructure. However, instead…

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Hybrid Cloud: Building the Best of All Worlds

Successful hybrid cloud implementations are all about putting the right applications in the right environments and then orchestrating that mix.

By Troy Brick-Margelofsky  and Brandon Jackson
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September 13, 2018
Cloud, Data Center, Services

— 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…

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