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The Case for Private Cloud – Part 1: A Winning Strategy
Caleb CrisciEnterprise Architect Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a multi-part blog series discussing the pros and cons of private cloud vs public cloud computing, and some specific technologies that can enable Private Clouds. The information presented is meant...
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BLOG – TRAC Solutions gains service reliability with a hybrid-cloud solution
Farhan HussainVP, Hybrid Cloud Practice INDUSTRY: Internet of Things TRAC Solutions provides full-service electronic and alternative monitoring solutions for courts and jails in the Midwest states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, and Wisconsin...
BLOG – Pros and Cons of 4 Common Cloud Migration Strategies
Farhan HussainVP, Hybrid Cloud Practice It's expected that the public cloud service market will reach $623.3 billion by 2023 worldwide. After all, cloud computing offers businesses greater flexibility, resilience, and recovery. But migrating all of your...
BLOG – Franklin Madison migrates to a cloud based middleware solution
Farhan HussainVP, Hybrid Cloud Practice INDUSTRY: Financial ServicesCOMPANY SIZE: 200 EmployeesHEADQUARTERS: Franklin, TN Having separated from its parent company, Franklin Madison wanted to build a modern, cloud-based infrastructure using Amazon Web Services...
BLOG – Ramagine up to the challenge of transforming malware analysis
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BLOG: IBM Ceph Storage Delivers Hybrid Cloud-Native Storage Capabilities
Scott BueckerStorage Engineer Product Positioning, Delivery, and Support On October 4th IBM announced that the Red Hat and IBM Storage businesses are coming together as a single group within IBM. Red Hat and IBM have been working closely for many years,...
BLOG: Healthcare System Stays in Front of Ransomware Threats with IBM QRadar SIEM
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BLOG: Modernizing Multiple Datacenter Interconnectivity: Implementing EVPN/VXLAN as the Datacenter Interconnect in a Cisco Nexus 9K Environment
Robert Kinney Sr. Network Systems Engineer Awhile back we had a customer that needed a datacenter network refresh. Their network consisted of two datacenters, about a mile apart from each other, connected with a pair of Nexus 7010s in vPC which provided their...
BLOG: NetApp Cloud Backup DataLock and Ransomware Protection
Seth Tollefson Solutions Architect NetApp recently introduced DataLock, a new feature that integrates with Cloud Backup and the entire NetApp ecosystem. DataLock allows on-premises snapshots to be locked and replicated to the cloud object store, making them...
BLOG: NetApp Spot Security: Continuous and Automated Cloud-Native Security
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BLOG: What Your Company Needs to Know About NetApp Hardware Refreshes
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BLOG: Significant Enhancements to IBM Power Systems in the IBM Cloud
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