When you’re dealing with a modern, all-flash array, you need data efficiency technology to keep up. Otherwise, what’s the point of having such a speedy solution? Perhaps you’ve heard the terms “thick provisioning” and “thin provisioning.” These terms get tossed around a lot in the storage community, but which is right for you?
Machine Learning, AI, and All-Flash Arrays: Leave Performance Tuning in the Past!
September 30, 2020
Whether you realize it or not, we’re exposed to artificial intelligence and machine-based learning every day. The virtual assistants on our smartphones, the smart speaker in your living room, your social media account, and even your favorite TV-streaming platform all use artificial intelligence and machine learning for optimum performance and personalized user experiences.
Stream Networks, a high-performance network integration and service company utilized VIOLIN products to provide MSP services to their customers. Three customers moved their infrastructure to the VIOLIN QV2020 and saw instant success.
SQL Servers and All-Flash Arrays: The Perfect Pair
September 16, 2020
Structured query language servers or SQL (sometimes pronounced “Sequel”) servers are becoming an increasingly important tool for any data scientist to have in their toolbox. It’s a key asset that can be used to do all sorts of things, like access, update, inserts manipulates, and modify data, and it also helps in communicating with relational databases.
How Arcserve and Palmiq's group of experts can help any organization.
May 5, 2020
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How to keep your mission critical machines up and running.
May 1, 2020
Hi. I'm here today to talk to you a little bit about a little known secret to get your most mission-critical machines up and running with absolute minimal downtime.
Today, I want to talk to you about one of the things that we hear in a lot of our customer environments, and that is this theme of doing more with less.
What VMware storage software can save thousand of hours?
April 17, 2020
Today, I want to talk to you about some software that was devised specifically to save thousands and thousands of man-hours of management within hypervisor-based infrastructures.
You're Growing Fast. Your IT Is Not Growing With You.
The scaling gap does not announce itself. It reveals itself through patterns that are easy to dismiss individually but are collectively diagnostic. If your organization is experiencing several of these simultaneously, the IT infrastructure is telling you it was built for a smaller company.
Stop Paying for Cybersecurity Tools You're Not Actually Using
The financial waste is significant. But the security waste is worse. Every tool that is deployed but not managed is a false signal. It appears in the security stack. It shows up on compliance documentation. It creates the impression that a capability exists.
If Your IT Provider Disappeared Tomorrow, Would Your Business Survive?
It is a question most business leaders have never considered, and it is one of the most revealing strategic exercises an organization can conduct. If the company or person managing your IT infrastructure ceased to exist tomorrow morning, what would happen?
You Passed the Compliance Audit. That Doesn't Mean You're Secure.
Compliance frameworks establish minimum acceptable standards. They are not designed to be comprehensive security programs. HIPAA requires that organizations implement safeguards to protect electronic protected health information.
The IT Debt Trap: How Neglected Infrastructure Is Quietly Destroying Your Business
IT debt is not a single problem. It is an accumulation of deferred decisions that individually seem manageable but collectively create an environment that is fragile, vulnerable, and increasingly expensive to maintain.
Why Small Businesses Are the #1 Target for Cyberattacks in 2026
Small businesses offer a fundamentally different equation. The defenses are thinner. Many organizations have no dedicated security staff. Endpoint protection may be consumer-grade or improperly configured. Email filtering relies on the basic features included with Microsoft 365. Backups exist but have never been tested.
The Hidden Cost of Downtime: What 60 Minutes Offline Really Costs Your Business
The financial services technology stack is deeply interconnected. Client relationship management systems feed into portfolio management platforms. Portfolio management platforms connect to trading systems. Trading systems interface with custodians and clearing houses. Reporting engines pull from all of them. Compliance monitoring overlays everything. When one component fails, the cascade is rapid and the blast radius is wide.
Cybersecurity Is Not a Tech Problem It's a Business Problem
Ask a room full of executives what cybersecurity is, and most will describe it in technical terms. Firewalls. Antivirus. Encryption. Patching. They will describe it as something their IT team handles, something that lives in the server room or in the cloud, something measured in alerts and scan results. They are not wrong about the components. They are wrong about the category.
Why Your Microsoft 365 Data Is Not as Safe as You Think
Your organization moved to Microsoft 365 and everything got better. Email is reliable. Collaboration is seamless. Files live in the cloud where they are accessible from anywhere. The days of managing an on-premises Exchange server and worrying about tape backups are over. Microsoft handles it now.