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News
ActualTech Media To Give Away 10,000 Gorilla Guide Books at VMworld 2018!
We're excited to announce that, for the very first time, ActualTech Media will be exhibiting live at VMworld 2018! We want as many people as possible to get their hands on the latest Gorilla Guides so we've reserved our very own booth, #2244, to give away 10,000 free Gorilla Guides to attendees a… Read More
By Geordie Carswell -
CIO
How Digital Transformation Is Like a Diet
I don’t like to bring too much personal baggage to my writing and this may be a little corny, but one of my current undertakings has some real-world parallels to a modern technology-centric business trend, so here I go… Big Change Requires Big Commitment As so many know, losing weight is reall… Read More
By Scott D. Lowe -
Podcast
036 - Who’s Your Cloud Daddy? Secure Backup on Amazon Web Services
There are three critical pillars of data protection: backup, restore and disaster recovery. But when it comes to protecting your data in the cloud, advanced security countermeasures and infrastructure management become part of the holistic solution. That’s what Cloud Daddy CEO Joe Merces and Actua… Read More
By Keith Ward -
RoadCast
Imanis Data Applies Machine Learning to Data Management
What can Machine Learning, applied to data management, do for you? That’s the question posed by ActualTech Media CEO Scott D. Lowe to Imanis Data in this RoadCast video. Scott talks to Imanis Data CEO John Mracek about the growing problem of data that’s growing, especially unstructured data. Ima… Read More
By Keith Ward -
News
Blue Medora’s BindPlane Expands Multi-Cloud Support
Blue Medora today announced support for two new cloud platforms - Google Cloud and Alibaba Cloud - for BindPlane™, the industry’s first monitoring integration as a service (MIaaS). BindPlane addresses the common challenge most data center operations teams experience - gaining a comprehensive… Read More
By ActualTech Media -
News
E8 Storage Adds Toronto-Based Cognosystems As A Solutions Partner, Expands Into Canadian Market
E8 Storage today announced that it is expanding into the Canadian market with the addition of CognoSystems to its growing base of channel partners. With recent customer wins in the US and EMEA markets, E8 Storage is primed for continued growth and is pleased to be gaining traction in the Can… Read More
By ActualTech Media -
Data Center
What You Need to Know About Value Stream Mapping for the Enterprise
Leading enterprises like Netflix, Uber, and Airbnb have demonstrated that the future of business lies in figuring out how to create value faster than competitors. This sounds good on paper, but enterprises can get hit snags when trying to move faster without creating more value in practice. To ad… Read More
By George Lawton -
RoadCast
Pavilion Data Provides the Benefits of NVMe Storage End-to-End
NVMe is a type of incredibly fast storage that promises to revolutionize the IT industry. The problem is that unless the NVMe SSDs are locally attached, they're not fast enough for the most demanding applications. Until now. In this RoadCast video, ActualTech Media CEO Scott D. Lowe interviews Jeff… Read More
By Keith Ward -
RoadCast
Big Switch Networks and Nutanix: Like Peanut Butter and Jelly
Hyperconvergence is great, but scaling up can be a problem. As your number of nodes grows, especially beyond eight, the network can become so saturated that it bogs down significantly. In this video, ActualTech Media Partner David Davis interviews Gregg Holzrichter, Chief Marketing Officer at Big Sw… Read More
By Keith Ward -
RoadCast
From Static To Dynamic Infrastructure With HashiCorp
HashiCorp has a simple-sounding goal that isn’t so simple to pull off. It’s to help companies migrate from the static world of on-premises data centers to the dynamic world of multi-cloud usage and constantly-evolving workloads. ActualTech Media Partner David Davis interviewed Chris Kent, Sr. Pr… Read More
By Keith Ward -
News
Piedmont HealthCare Leverages Cohesity’s Web-Scale, Hyperconverged Secondary Storage Platform to Efficiently Manage Data Growth
Cohesity, the leader of hyperconverged secondary storage, today announced that Piedmont HealthCare, a large physician-owned and directed multi-specialty group in North Carolina, deployed Cohesity’s revolutionary platform to achieve tangible cost and time savings, and to efficiently manage explosiv… Read More
By ActualTech Media -
RoadCast
LightStep Offers Application Monitoring for Today’s Distributed Applications
Application monitoring has been around forever. But today’s applications can be incredibly complex, utilizing microservices and being distributed over hundreds or thousands of nodes. This is why LightStep was invented. In this RoadCast video, ActualTech Media CEO Scott D. Lowe talks with LightStep… Read More
By Keith Ward -
RoadCast
Cloudtenna Brings Order to Enterprise Search Chaos
ActualTech Media CEO Scott Lowe has a problem: he can’t find the stuff he needs. His files are scattered everywhere – email, Slack, Dropbox, etc. He wants a simple solution, so he asks Aaron Ganek, co-founder of Cloudtenna, if he can help. Cloudtenna offers what Ganek calls in this RoadCast vide… Read More
By Keith Ward -
RoadCast
Fastest Filesystem on the Planet? Yes, Says WekaIO
“IO Starvation” sounds like some kind of dystopian novel! But in reality, it’s a serious issue facing data centers, and it keeps your applications from operating at peak performance. In this RoadCast video, Richard Dyke, VP of Sales at WekaIO, talks to ActualTech Media Partner David Davis abou… Read More
By Keith Ward -
RoadCast
Eliminating Data Center Silos With Datrium
“We want to be the ‘any cloud, any hypervisor’ company,” says Sazzala Reddy, CTO and co-founder of Datrium. To find out how they’re doing that, ActualTech Media CEO Scott D. Lowe interviewed Reddy as part of our RoadCast series. In this video, Reddy explains how traditional data centers ha… Read More
By Keith Ward -
RoadCast
How IGEL Is Redefining Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
“It’s the year of VDI!” How many times has that been said over the years? In reality, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) has settled into a solid place in data centers, and while no longer “hot,” is actually in a better place now – it’s useful! To that end, ActualTech Media CEO Scott… Read More
By Keith Ward -
RoadCast
Kinetica Leverages the Power of the GPU for Data Analytics
Data analytics is a hot field, and ActualTech Media CEO Scott D. Lowe interviews a company on the bleeding edge -- Kinetica, a data analytics company with an interesting twist. Kinetica is all about “data in motion, and businesses in motion,” says Dipti Borkar, VP of Product Marketing at Kineti… Read More
By Keith Ward -
RoadCast
DriveScale and the Future of the Data Center
The data center is changing fast, to meet the changing needs of organizations. ActualTech Media CEO Scott D. Lowe recently interviewed Gene Banman, CEO of DriveScale, about his company’s innovative offering in the area of software-composable infrastructure. Banman explained how composable infrastr… Read More
By Keith Ward -
News
E8 Storage Achieves Certification of Compliance with the NVMe-oF Industry Standard
E8 Storage, a pioneer in shared accelerated storage for data-intensive, high-performance applications, has certified E8 Storage Software is compliant with the NVMe-oF 1.0 specification. This certification further expands E8 Storage’s market reach to new customers relying on conformance to industry… Read More
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News
HashiCorp Extends Service Mesh Capabilities With Major Update to Consul
Today onstage at HashiDays Amsterdam, HashiCorp, a leader in cloud infrastructure automation, announced major new functionality for HashiCorp Consul, an open source service mesh to connect, secure, and configure services in dynamic, low-trust network environments. The new capability, called Consul C… Read More
By ActualTech Media -
News
US Signal Delivers Advanced Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service for Baystate Health Systems
US Signal, a leading end-to-end IT solutions provider, today announced that it has installed a managed Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) solution for Baystate Health Service (BHS) a not-for-profit, integrated healthcare system serving more than 1 million people each year throughout western New… Read More
By ActualTech Media