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...
View Article3 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticlePEX 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...
View ArticlePEX 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...
View ArticlePEX 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View Article15 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticlePodcast: 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...
View Article5 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....
View Article5 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....
View ArticleWhy 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleIBM PureFlex is fast: Get revved up over speedy new way to upgrade [IBM]
Picture all of the parts that make up your IT foundation. Much like an automobile, each year manufacturers produce new models and update parts to make the latest data center faster and more efficient...
View ArticleStorage Magazine’s 2011 Backup Hardware Product Of The Year [Quantum]
With the onset of virtualization and its increasing adoption, companies face the challenge of overhauling the infrastructure that supports their virtual environment. Amidst the chaos and change, have...
View ArticleeBook: Dell Compellent lets you spend less time managing your data [Dell]
Click here to download this eBook Dell Compellent storage is an enterprise data storage array that delivers high performance with fewer drives, power and space. With Compellent being utilized any...
View ArticleAn Overview Of The Top 3 Converged Infrastructure Offerings
Even with the latest infrastructure technology, IT departments must continue to support applications running in both bare-metal and virtualized environments. This causes a few problems for IT managers...
View ArticleFree eBook: A Better Way To Allocate and Manage Shared Storage [EMC]
Limited IT budgets, constant demand for 24 × 7 access to information and growing unstructured data got you down? You’re not alone. It’s for these reasons and more that many organizations are making...
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