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Omar Rafik, SolarWinds Senior Manager, Federal Sales Engineering Here’s an interesting article by my colleague Mav Turner with ideas about how the government could monitor and automate their hyperconverged infrastructure to help achieve their modernization objectives. It’s no surprise hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)…
This is the second of a series of five posts on the market space for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). To be clear, as the previous blog post outlined, there are many options in this space. Evaluation of your needs and clear understanding of why you want to choose a solution shouldn’t be made lightly. Complete…
In this third post on the subject, I’ll discuss hyperconverged architectural approaches. I want to share some of my experiences in how and why my customers have taken different choices, not to promote one solution over another, but to highlight why one approach may be better for your needs than another. As I’ve alluded to…
Here’s the fifth part of the series I’ve been writing regarding HCI. Again, I don’t want to sway my audience from one platform to another. Rather, I want them to follow the edict caveat emptor. It’s mission-critical for the future of the environment we’re talking about here for the buyer to be aware of the available…
A storage system on its own is not useful. Sure, it can store data, but how are you going to put any data on it? Or read back the data that you just stored? You need to connect clients to your storage system. For this post, let’s assume that we are using block protocols like iSCSI or traditional block storage systems. This…
Full disclosure: In my work life, I spend my time at OnX Enterprise Solutions, where we’re a key partner with HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise). The following are some thoughts regarding some of the aggressive steps recently taken by Meg Whitman and the board. To me, these seem bold and decisive. They have been pivoting to…
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