– 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…

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…

The test and development process is central to how companies grow their offerings and reach a wider customer base. Today, customers are quick to jump ship for new features and better service level agreements. Development teams seek to deliver new products as quickly as possible, while operations struggle to keep pace. Helping development, operations and…

The IT industry is full of acronyms and buzzwords (as those of us in the profession are sometimes painfully aware.). Many of these are constantly evolving in definition (e.g., “the cloud”). There is also a never-ending supply of new technology and processes, all of which we struggle to define. As a result, we end up…

When it comes to trade show bucket lists, Cisco Live 2015 was the last of the majors that I’d yet to attend, so I was more than excited to finally cross it off. As a Solution Architect within the server storage practice, I was entrusted to work the CDW booth and handle inquiries around our…

Fancy tag lines aside, we have come to an age of data storage like no other in the history of information retrieval. The amount of unstructured data being created on an hourly basis is mind-boggling. This includes video, photos, documents – you name it. Both consumers and businesses alike create terabytes of data and need…