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Podcast
098 – Databases in the Public Cloud? Yes, You Can!
Believe it or not, there was a time when virtualizing servers was hard. Not so much anymore. In a way, that’s where we are with databases in the public cloud. It’s hard, and it can be intimidating to make the switch. When we look back in a few years, though, we may wonder why it seemed so har… Read More
By Keith Ward -
Podcast
097 – Why ‘Boring’ Is Good at the Edge
“The computing edge” is a sexy buzzword right now. But is that really what you want as an IT admin? No—what you want, what you need, is infrastructure that just works, whether it’s on-premises or at the edge. That means your edge infrastructure needs to be reliable, especially in areas wh… Read More
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Podcast
096 – How Scality Helps Drive Cloud-Native Development with Object Storage
If there’s one word that describes the modern IT era, that word is “complexity.” Applications, data, and its associated infrastructure has broken through its on-premises boundaries and moved to the cloud and the edge. This has massive implications for things like software development and st… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Nasuni Provides a ‘NAS in the Cloud’
You know you need to be in the cloud. There are so many advantages in terms of scalability and availability, data resilience, backup and disaster recovery, and so on. But getting to the cloud can be scary, especially if you’re a traditional IT shop with apps and data stored in your on-premises dat… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Prevention as a Service? Where Do I Sign Up?
“Prevention as a Service.” Now that’s an “X as a Service” that’s new in the industry, but it’s an exciting idea! According to Perception Point VP of Customer Success & Incident Response Motti Elloul, it means to protect customers from any content-based attacks from any channel that all… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Vcinity Provides LAN Speeds for Data Access—No Matter Where the Data Lives
“Local Performance on a Global Scale.” That’s the promise made on the Vcinity website. Does it sound too good to be true? That’s what they discuss on this episode of ActualTech Media’s Spotlight Series of videos. Vcinity VP of Marketing Noemi Greyzdorf spoke with ActualTech Media CEO an… Read More
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security
Beef Up Your Cloud Security with Solvo
“By 2023, 75% of security failures will result from inadequate management of identities, access, and privileges, up from 50% in 2020.” This statistic, from Gartner, should be a warning to organizations about upcoming security threats. Getting out ahead of that looming danger is what Solvo is… Read More
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data
DSM Offers Unified Data Management for Florida Businesses
DSM understands that your data is your company’s most valuable asset. That’s why they offer a managed service that protects your data, keeping you one step ahead of the bad guys. DSM Product Manager Brian Banaszynski spoke with ActualTech Media CEO Scott Lowe for this Spotlight Series video,… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Up-Level Your Incident Response Game with StackPulse
Getting alerts about things that have gone wrong in your production systems is crucial for making sure your operations run smoothly. But how do you know which alerts are most important for your company? How do you know which alerts to tackle first? And what do you do about “alert fatigue,” the s… Read More
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Backup
Veritas Ramps Up Its Cloud Data Protection Offerings
Most companies use some form of Software as a Service (SaaS). Even those who are dragged kicking and screaming into the cloud era use things like Box, Slack, and other services. And during the pandemic, that trend has accelerated like a bullet train, since workforces are now dispersed and data and a… Read More
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security
Are You Experiencing Cybersecurity Tool Fatigue?
According to global tech market advisory firm ABI Research, spending on cybersecurity for infrastructure will reach nearly $106 billion this year, an increase of about $9 billion over last year. Referring to the SolarWinds hack, Michela Menting, Digital Security Research Director at ABI Research… Read More
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Cloud
Are You Ready for ‘Cloud First’ Computing?
“Cloud first.” It’s what many organizations—maybe most—say they want to be these days. Some even are. But for the vast majority, it’s still an aspirational goal more than anything else. Companies inherently understand the value of being “cloud first,” since we’re well beyond the er… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Alkira Connects You To Any Cloud, Anywhere
David Klebanov, head of product marketing for Alkira, asks a fascinating question during his discussion with ActualTech Media Partner James Green: What if you’d had the chance to design your network with the cloud in mind? That’s what drove the idea behind Alkira, which offers networking (or… Read More
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Spotlight Series
HYCU Says It’s ‘All About the Recovery’
Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU, says “It’s not about backup. Anybody can build backup. It’s about great recovery,” what does he mean? He means, in IT terms, that backup is now just table stakes—it’s baked in. But when you’re hit with a ransomware attack, what businesses need to know is h… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Lightbits Offers NVMe Performance with All-Flash Features
There’s no doubt that NVMe is lightning-fast storage. The problem is that it’s confined to servers. But what if you could break it free from those constraints, and pool it? It could open up new worlds of speed as well as scalability. Lightbits Labs has done just that, as VP of Product Marketi… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Focus on Your Business, Rather Than Managing Storage, with StorPool
Unless you’re in the data storage management business, why would you want to spend time managing your storage? It’s a question StorPool asked from the beginning, and why they built a platform to remove the storage management burden from your shoulders. StorPool CEO and Co-Founder Boyan Ivanov… Read More
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Spotlight Series
ZeeTim Makes VDI Management Easy
We are firmly in the era of remote computing. The worldwide pandemic has only accelerated the need to work remotely, forcing companies to find ways to deliver software and applications to end users scattered all over the globe. In other words, endpoints are exploding, bringing virtual desktop inf… Read More
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Podcast
095 – The Next Revolution: Networking at the Edge
IT infrastructure has broken through. It’s no longer in an on-premises walled garden—data, applications, and hardware can live anywhere. That means new opportunities for business, but it also brings new challenges, especially when it comes to tying all these newly-disparate pieces together. T… Read More
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security
Executive Q&A With Ananda Networks: Security Needs a Makeover
Information security has been an issue ever since two computers were first joined together to share data. And now that most of the computers on the planet are networked—computers in this sense being anything from an IBM Z mainframe to an Apple Watch—security has become more important, and more c… Read More
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Spotlight Series
Putting IT Vendors In the Spotlight
In December 2020, ActualTech Media undertook a new project: a “Spotlight Series” of videos that provides a chance to get to know a particular IT vendor and what their product does. The Spotlight Series started life as “RoadCast,” which had the same goal, but the videos were done in person… Read More
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Data Center
Simplifying Management with VMware vRealize Operations Extensibility
One of the fundamental truths of enterprise IT is that management tool consolidation improves operational efficiency. It’s easier for an IT pro to use a single solution to collectively monitor all of their applications and infrastructure/cloud resources than to take a piecemeal approach to monitor… Read More
By Brien Posey