UPDATED: Everything you need to know about Veritas
As of October 3rd 2015, Veritas has once again become an independent company. If you use Veritas products, stop searching, we have all the info you need to know. Editor’s note: please check the headers...
View ArticleDell and Microsoft team up to solve hybrid cloud complexity
Introducing the Dell Hybrid Cloud System for Microsoft. It combines servers, storage and software in an integrated box and connects easily to Microsoft's Azure cloud services, breaking through the...
View ArticleFive Veeam Availability V9 Features no one knows about
The Veeam Availability Suite has achieved great popularity over the last three years. Users are delighted with its marquee capabilities such as high-speed backup and recovery, replication, verified...
View ArticleHow Cisco’s Smart Collector Security Architecture protects your sensitive...
As clients work with Softchoice to evaluate whether Smart Net Total Care will provide what they need, the inevitable question arises: how secure is my sensitive network data? Read on and get a quick...
View ArticleEndpoint security: beyond protection
Think your endpoint security is enough to guard against today’s advanced targeted attacks? You may need to think again. The post Endpoint security: beyond protection appeared first on Softchoice Advisor.
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VMworld 2012 -The Top 3 Changes That Will Affect You
Hoopla! VMworld has dropped some big announcements, and we want you to be among the first to hear them – specifically around the new vSphere 5.1 changes, and how they’ll impact you. Here are the top...
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Back-end of BYOD: Are You Ready For A Whole New World of Storage Demands? [Dell]
The “client computing revolution” is upon us, and in a world where enabling a Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy in your organization “isn’t optional”, IT administrators face a plethora of concerns...
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5 Reasons to Migrate Unix to Linux [SUSE]
You can probably relate to this scenario. Your hardware, OS or applications have reached end-of-life, and you need to deploy new software that’s not supported on your current (legacy) platform. You’re...
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Do You Have The Right Failover Plan For Your Mission Critical Apps? [SUSE]
You realize that a little downtime is expected from time to time. However, do you calculate what the downtime of mission critical applications could cost your business? In this post, I cover the high...
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What comes with the SUSE High Availability Extension? [SUSE]
This is the second in our two-part series on the SUSE High Availability Extension. Read Part 1 Do You Have the Right Failover plan for your critical applications to learn more about the solution and...
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vFabric Support Now Extends to Oracle Databases [VMware]
A new release of vFabric Data Director 2.0 now offers support for virtualizing Oracle databases and automation features that pave the way for Database-as-a-Service (DaaS). But, before I get into...
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So A Chameleon And A Penguin Walk Into A Bar… [SUSE]
Before I discuss Linux and SAP, I want to quickly recap what I’ve already covered in the Advisor blog. The first two posts looked at the importance of high availability and the tools available to get...
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SnS Renewals Explained: Frequently Asked Questions [VMware]
In Part 1 of this blog series, I explained 5 points to ponder for a smooth renewal process, and discussed what to expect when you call Softchoice about VMware Licenses. In this post, I offer answers...
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VMware Support & Subscription Renewals: 5 Things You Should Know
Have you received a notice from VMware that your licenses are up for renewal? Do you feel unsure if renewing your licenses is really worth it? If you plan on renewing your VMware subscriptions, the...
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The Software-Defined-Data-Center (SDDC): Concept or Reality? [VMware]
Besides being a mouthful to say, the concept of a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is based on abstracting hardware from the delivery of business applications. Forrester defines SDDC as “…an...
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4 Ways Application Delivery Controllers Enhance Your Application...
If you’re like most organizations, lack of application availability and poor performance issues for key services cause instant uproars from within user communities. For IT organizations, this means...
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How 3PAR Addresses The Biggest Part of IT’s Spend [HP]
Since HP won the $2.3B battle over 3PAR, they have brought the enterprise-class features of 3PAR storage into a mid-range solution offering. This pre-configured, converged storage platform combines HP...
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What You Need To Know About Cisco’s New Application-Centric Infrastructure
On November 6th 2013, Cisco announced their vision for the ultimate data center – the Cisco Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI). The Cisco ACI combines their Unified Computing System (UCS)...
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3 Reasons Softchoice Implemented Veeam Backup and Replication
In our recent blog post on Veeam V7 Backup and Replication we discussed 12 disruptive innovations offered by Veeam Backup Version 7. Recently, we implemented this solution ourselves. Read on to find...
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The Most Important IBM System x Announcement in 3 Years
On Jan 16th, IBM launched its next generation server family that is built on the exclusive IBM X-Architecture. Featuring the Intel Xeon E7 v2 family of processors, the four socket x3850 X6 and eight...
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3 Best practices for setting up an Enterprise Mobility Management solution
Users are bringing their own devices to work, like it or not. To completely prevent users from bringing their own phones, tablets, and laptops requires a very militant and expensive array of solutions...
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Need a Strategy for Backup and Data Growth? Read This First
Before you make any decisions about backup and replication, there’s one critical thing you need to do. When choosing a backup solution, the first thing you need to do is build a snapshot of your...
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IBM’s Power8 Processors Thrive on the Complex – And They’re Available Right Now
Announced April 23rd 2014, IBM Power8 Systems for big data offer data processing at incredible new speeds (even Google uses them). Why so fast? We have three BIG reasons… 1. We’re amassing a wealth of...
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Everything you need to know about Cisco’s new UCS Mini
Media outlets are saying Cisco’s just-announced UCS Mini is the ‘blade runner’ of hyper-convergence, that Cisco just upped its UCS server game and that it’s the first truly disaggregated server in the...
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The lowdown on Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s x86 business
On October 1 2014, IBM and Lenovo closed Lenovo’s acquisition of IBM’s x86 server business. I talked with our dedicated IBM team and got the lowdown how much it costs, why they did it, and what...
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Telemerge’s President on Telepresence-as-a-Service (TPaaS)
While we think of Simon as a unique leader, his focus on ensuring customers are delivered the experience they deserve is something I’d wager he shares with CEOs across the board. And when it comes to...
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Moving Tier 3 & 4 workloads to the hybrid cloud with EMC and vCloud Air
In a recently published solutions brief, VMware and EMC discussed the top 4 use cases for EMC clients for using VMware’s vCloud Air solution, with the number one use case focusing on the need to move...
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3 biggest storage problems with VDI (and how to solve them)
In this blog post, I will explain why most VDI projects fail due to the 3 biggest storage problems with VDI and offer tools to solve them so you can avoid using the hashtag #VDIFail in your next angry...
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How To Get E-rate discounts For VMware Horizon
If you work in education and you’re considering a desktop virtualization project with VMware Horizon, E-rate funding is available to you. But, securing these discounts can be challenging. In this blog...
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Why more clients will refresh W2K3 servers with Cisco UCS
What? A refresh? But servers last longer than ever! That’s true, but unless innovation slows down (ha ha) they will reach an inevitable point where they are more venerable than valuable. In the data...
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PEX 2015: 3 things you need to know about vSAN 6.0
Part 2 of 3: The Softchoice team is wrapping up our time at the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2015, and we’ve captured VMware’s vSAN 6.0 announcements. In this series, we cover the top three...
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PEX 2015: The 3 things you need to know about vSOM 6.0
Part 3 of 3: The Softchoice team is wrapping up our time at the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2015, and we’ve captured VMware’s vSOM 6.0 announcements. In this series, we cover the top three...
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PEX 2015: 3 things you need to know about vCloud Suite 6.0
Part 1 of 3: The Softchoice team is wrapping up our time at the VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) 2015, and we’ve captured our VMware’s vCloud Suite 6.0 announcements. In this series, we cover the top...
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The secret to optimizing Symantec Endpoint Protection
In this post I identify helpful links and tips from Symantec experts and reveal how to get a fast expert-led analysis of Symantec Endpoint Protection for free – before you switch. So you manage...
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15 upgrade FAQs for Symantec Backup Exec 15
If you’re considering Backup Exec 15, this blog post has (almost) every detail you need to know in 15 questions. I parsed through Symantec’s documentation to provide the top 15 things you need to know...
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The 5 stages of a malware attack (and what to do next)
It takes less than half a second for a user to unknowingly infect your network. In this blog post we cover the five stages of a malware attack, and how to analyze your environment for complete...
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Podcast: 5 things you must know before your data center storage refresh
If you’re thinking that it’s time for a storage refresh, then this is the podcast for you. Inspired by headlines from EMC World, our Hybrid IT Director, Matt Sirbu, gives us some words of wisdom in...
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5 reasons why now is the right time to move Autodesk maintenance licenses to...
In this article, we cover the key benefits of subscription licensing and why now is the perfect time to make the move from maintenance to subscription. 1. You cannot buy perpetual licenses anymore....
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5 ways HPE SimpliVity will transform your data center (get the eBook too!)
How to best deal with ever-expanding data centers continues to be a major concern for IT. The challenge for IT teams to keep up in today’s fast-paced environment is daunting, to say the least....
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Why You Should Consider IBM Power Systems to Run your SAP HANA Environment
SAP HANA is on the cutting edge of in-memory database technology. If you’re an existing SAP user and are looking to migrate to SAP HANA, you should be considering IBM Power to take your SAP HANA...
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The Amplify Flipbook: Keep track of new technology that can have a big impact...
We just launched The Amplify Vendor Flipbook to help curate, highlight and share technology news and advice that might not be on your radar…yet. Amplify is an inclusive, vendor flipbook. It offers a...
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Focus On The IaaS Services You Actually Want To Deliver [HP]
So you need to build and integrate a new hosting platform? Maybe your developers need it for a new project, maybe you are a cloud provider setting up a new organization or ‘tenant.’ Public or Private...
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10 things you need to know about onCommand Storage Management [NetApp]
Migrating from a physical to a virtual environment can be a pain in the infrastructure. Fortunately, NetApp OnCommand System Manager and OnCommand Balance (formerly Akorri BalancePoint) can help you...
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Growing Pains: High Availability Storage Starting Under $8,000 [NetApp]
One constant for every company is that if the business expands, so does the need for storage. It’s like a teenager out-growing his clothes every year; you love to see him grow, but spending more money...
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Top 5 Ways The Modern Desktop Transforms Desktop Management [VMware]
In the age of consumerization, end-users are demanding flexibility, increased mobility and a consistent user-experience across a variety of devices. IT administrators require a secure infrastructure,...
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How Clever SMB’s Deal With The Storage And Backup Challenges of BYOD [Quantum]
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is buzzing in every CIO and IT manager’s thoughts these days. When managed correctly, BYOD can increase staff productivity, improve file-sharing, and make employees...
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Three Reasons NOT to Replace Your Laptops or Workstations
Laptops and workstations slow down over time. The quantity of applications grows, the newest apps demand yet more I/O, and system performance becomes sluggish. It’s inevitable. But that doesn’t stem...
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Why you shouldn’t wait to upgrade infrastructure for SAP HANA
SAP has told its customers they have until 2025 to prepare their infrastructure for SAP HANA — the in-memory database and platform, promising to replace traditional environments with 10-1000x faster...
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DellEMC with AzureStack delivers first public cloud-like experience on-premises
Microsoft’s Azure Stack extends public cloud capabilities to on-premises data centers with first-to-market Dell-EMC Cloud Appliance. Today, IT is more than an operational support unit. It’s an...
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The truth about Cisco Software Enterprise Agreements
CIO’s and IT managers face many challenges when it comes to software licensing. And it’s no secret that this struggle results in unsatisfactory outcomes for IT operations, budget and resource...
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