I hear it more and more from IT professionals, "our key 'X' application
just can not go down." As you can image, the "X" variable in the prior
sentence usually stands for a key business service or app...
As organizations move to virtualization and the cloud, we have to adapt
to increasing mixed environments: Hyper-V, Vmware, physical
applications, customer applications, multiple storage vendors, cloud...
More and more information is becoming readily available to companies and
they are leveraging it to advance business and give consumers what they
want. This practice known as “big data” has the potenti...
A colleague tipped me to this blog post at the Netflix Tech Blog that I
found both amusing and interesting. Some months back, I was talking
about disaster recovery testing with a customer, and he used...
Vision Las Vegas is just around the corner, April 15-18. This year the
Information Availability, Intelligence and Data Protection track focuses
on business continuity, storage and solid state drives, ...
Windows 8 has been released... OK, so I'm not actually that excited
about Windows 8 (I'm a Mac user and I like my screen sharp and finger
print free). But as usual it was accompanied by a new version ...
I speak with a lot of our customers, and a frequent topic of
conversation is around virtualization. Just a few years ago, most I
spoke with didn't have more than 20 to 30% of their applications
virtua...
The modern organization is highly dependent on information technology,
simultaneously and quite unintentionally, information technology has
introduced new exposures which have deceptively seeped into ...
As you may recall, I was pretty salty about being denied access to
Symantec’s Worldwide Technical Symposium and Partner Tech Engage
Conference last October. Well, I might have overreacted a teeny bit....
SORT functionality is now available as a mobile application on the Apple
App Store! The SORT mobile app supports five key features from the SORT
website: SPVU Calculator (includes Server Tier mapping)...