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News
vSphere 6.7: Feature Overview
Today, 20 years and one day after celebrating its founding, VMware released vSphere 6.7, the latest iteration of its hypervisor and data center management platform. Although this update isn’t as feature-packed as the previous (6.5) release from November 2016, it does include some interesting new f… Read More
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News
Illumio and Qualys Partner on ‘Vulnerability Maps’
There are many advantages of integrating cloud computing into your data center operations, which is why the various types of public and hybrid clouds have taken off lately. But there are also downsides, and one of the worst is increased vulnerability. Consider, for example, the increased “East-… Read More
By Keith Ward -
News
Nexenta Brings On-Premises Customers into the Cloud with Launch of NexentaCloud and AWS Integration
Hybrid cloud is the reality for most organizations moving forward. They will leverage some combination of on-premises resources and cloud resources to form a complete IT infrastructure that meets their unique business needs. The great thing about hybrid architectures is that you can mix and match pa… Read More
By James D. Green -
News
US Signal Launches Technology Assessments To Help Organizations Plan For Effective IT Deployments And Benchmark Against Peers
Grand Rapids, Mich. - April 11, 2018 - US Signal, a leading end-to-end IT solutions provider, today announced the launch of its Technology Assessments. Designed to provide an objective, vendor-neutral analysis of a company’s IT resources, practices and processes, the Technology Assessments deliv… Read More
By James D. Green -
Cloud
5 Great Reasons to Attend the Cloud Solutions MegaCast on April 11
Do you remember the Christmas classic “A Charlie Brown Christmas”? At one point, Linus asks Lucy why he should memorize his lines for the Christmas play. Lucy slowly closes her fingers into a fist, counting each one as another good reason. Well, I won’t threaten you, but, like, Lucy, I’ll… Read More
By David M. Davis -
Briefing Update
Executive Briefing: Excelero Provides Performance of Local NVMe Across the Network
There’s no doubt that Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) is the storage of the future. It’s extremely fast and low-latency; a perfect fit for workloads needing the highest level of performance currently available. That amazing performance, though, starts to take a hit as soon as you leave the… Read More
By Keith Ward -
Briefing Update
Executive Briefing: E8 Storage Pushes NVMe to the Edge
There is a certain mindset in the industry (often promoted by vendors) that the faster the storage, the better. This is often more hype than reality: it’s quite possible that the best storage method for your cold data is, for example, good ol’ tape. It’s cheap, it’s reliable and it’s time-… Read More
By Keith Ward -
CIO
Technology Experts Share Their Top Tips and Advice for 'World Backup Day'
Backing up data should be one of the most fundamental of all IT activities. Yet, time and again, companies that should know better fail to properly create, secure and validate their backups. This Saturday, March 31, is World Backup Day, a day created to raise awareness for data backup and protect… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
Data Center
Top 10 Things You Need to Know About NVMe Devices
Non-Volatile Memory express (NVMe) devices are now mainstream. They are no longer considered exotic, and, as such, they have a wide variety of use cases. A year ago, Micron supplied me with a couple of enterprise NVMe devices, and I have been using them in my vSphere servers as cache devices and… Read More
By Tom Fenton -
podcast
30 - Kubernetes Is Driving the Need for Persistent Container Storage (w/ Alex Chircop)
In this new episode of the 10 on Tech podcast, David Davis and James Green of ActualTech Media interview Alex Chircop (@chira001) of StorageOS (@Storage_OS) about the adoption of container storage. In this interview, you’ll learn about: Why container storage is important in the industry tod… Read More
By James D. Green -
Briefing Update
Data In The Context of Digital Transformation
In case you weren’t aware, we are on the cusp of a full-on data tsunami. Thanks to the digital transformation movement, there are a growing number of systems and devices in use in any given business, and they’re throwing off data which needs to be stored, protected, and often analyzed. Businesse… Read More
By James D. Green -
Briefing Update
Solving Cloud's Infrastructure Complexities With YotaScale Infrastructure Performance Management
When it comes to optimizing today’s complex cloud environments, it almost seems that you need a Ph.D. in cloud computing just to understand all of the moving parts. There are countless variables on the infrastructure side to consider that are relevant to specific workloads and the KPIs that they n… Read More
By David M. Davis -
Cloud
HyperGrid's HyperCloud 5.0 Adds Raft of Updates to Ease Cloud Implementations
Pretty much every IT shop has looked at moving at least some of its operations to the cloud, whether it’s a private, public or hybrid cloud. The benefits in terms of costs, efficiency and reduced dev/test time are well known by this point. One of the major stumbling blocks to making this happen… Read More
By Keith Ward -
Cloud
Enterprise Container Platform PKS Hits General Availability
Pivotal Container Service (PKS), an enterprise-class platform for creating, deploying and running Kubernetes clusters for both development and production, was made generally available today. Kubernetes was developed to orchestrate containers at the enterprise level, and quickly became the leadin… Read More
By Keith Ward -
Data Center
Citrix Buys Public Cloud ‘Traffic Cop’ Vendor Cedexis
Citrix Buys Public Cloud ‘Traffic Cop’ Vendor Cedexis As more apps move to the cloud, and multi-cloud environments begin to proliferate, the management of all that traffic over divergent networks becomes a challenge. Latency, security and workload balancing get harder as these apps traverse m… Read More
By Keith Ward -
Briefing Update
Leverage AWS For High Performance Apps With WekaIO's Cloud-Based Parallel File System
Amazon’s AWS is a great platform for many types of enterprise applications, but it wasn’t built for high-performance needs, like AI. The challenge is at the file system level and that’s where a new startup, WekaIO, is making a difference. At AWS re:Invent 2017, I met with the co-founder and… Read More
By David M. Davis -
Briefing Update
What’s New With Illumio: Security Without Infrastructure Dependencies
It’s been a little bit over three years since Illumio emerged from stealth with its Adaptive Security Platform (ASP), which leverages micro-segmentation to offer security with granular visibility across data center and cloud environments. If you're new to micro-segmentation or Illumio, check out A… Read More
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Briefing Update
LucidLink Makes the Cloud Primary Storage for Your On-Prem Applications
[su_note note_color="#ededed"]This is part of a continuing series of briefing reports with solution providers. It is not intended to be a comprehensive product review, but rather an overview of what the vendor brings to the market, and a snapshot of their value proposition at the time ActualTech Med… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
Cloud
Red Hat Buys Container Vendor CoreOS
The red-hot container industry got another log added to the fire with the recent announcement that Red Hat is buying CoreOS, a company focused on container-based development and management. The deal, which was reportedly valued at $250 million, gives Red Hat a significantly larger footprint in th… Read More
By Keith Ward -
Briefing Update
Taking Storage Optimization to the Next Level With Enmotus
[su_note note_color="#ededed"]This is part of a continuing series of briefing reports with solution providers. It is not intended to be a comprehensive product review, but rather an overview of what the vendor brings to the market, and a snapshot of their value proposition at the time ActualTech Med… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
Briefing Update
Industry Briefing: Altaro Targets SMB Backup Market
Note: This write up is the result of a short briefing with Altaro. It is not intended to be a comprehensive review, but is intended to share with our audience an overview of what Altaro brings to the market. As I talk to enterprise IT vendors across industries -- storage, data protection, netw… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe