Does this sound like you? Your databases have been running on legacy IT infrastructure for years—decades, even. It’s a beast, but a familiar beast, and your IT team knows the ins-and-outs of the technology. Despite it being slow, costly, and complex, it’s been an IT staple for a long time. Alternatives seem like a daunting…
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With VMworld 2019 right around the corner, we wanted to share a recap on some of the powerful things that VMware has in their armoury and also discuss how Veeam can leverage this to enhance your Availability. This week VMware announced vSAN 6.7 Update 3. This release seems to have a heavy focus on simplifying…
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As if there weren’t enough security risks in the realm of traditional IT, the cloud presents some unique vulnerabilities. “The cloud,” although a deceptively singular phrase, is many things and comes in many forms. From infrastructure (IaaS) and platforms (PaaS), to software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings. Each new service introduces equally new challenges in terms of both…
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Outages, 6-year-old hardware, week-long migrations, vendors breathing down your neck. When your datacenter is going haywire, what do you do to alleviate that pressure? You can pour yourself a cold drink, cross your fingers, and hope for the best—or you can let the one-click simplicity of Nutanix take the wheel instead. In the spirit of…
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Industrial IoT (IIoT) devices will comprise the majority of the billions of IoT devices deployed over the next decade. How will the information security market meet this onslaught of technology? The consumer market is not a useful guide for this analysis. Consumers buy in small quantities and choose to deploy information security tools piecemeal. Few…
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Ransomware has been an evolutionary malware family that continues to shift and change over the years. From the first fakeAV, to police ransomware, to the now oft-used crypto-ransomware, this threat just will not go away. Based on the latest trends, we predict this threat will grow in the second half of this year. At Trend…
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Rewind for a moment back to October of 2018. It’s hurricane season in the Atlantic, millennials are rejecting American cheese for fancier artisan options, and analysts predict that IT spend will increase in 2019—3.2% according to Gartner, which would mean total spend worldwide would be around $3.8 trillion. Back to 2019! Where is that money…
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By Robert Coggins, Information Systems Staff Engineer, and Orlando Diaz, Information Systems Senior Manager, VMware How does VMware provide simple access to 1,000+ apps serving 28,000+ employees around the globe? The answer is VMware Identity Manager™, an integral component of VMware Workspace ONE®. Identity Manager delivers improved security and employee satisfaction regardless of device or…
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Lenovo invites the industry to explore new PCs, Augmented Reality, Internet of Things and security solutions at annual Accelerate event Orlando, FL – May 13, 2019 – Lenovo’s annual Transform 3.0 at Accelerate is where commercial business customers and partners, industry writers, SMB device buyers and tech lovers gather to catch a glimpse at the…
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In Part I of this blog, we explored how the complexity and growth of data centers have made manual control of data centers basically impossible, resulting in the introduction of control and management mechanisms. In Part I, we closed discussing better and more effective monitoring and capacity planning, bringing us to automation and policy-based management.…
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