Believe it or not, DataON has been delivering technology for over 30 years. We are based in beautiful, sunny Orange County, California, but we have grown our footprint and have customers all over the world, including Canada, Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, and Maldive’s. But Orange County is... read more →
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Many IT departments are looking at hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to replace their traditional storage area networks (SANs). HCI consolidates software-defined compute, storage, and networking to provide easily scalable virtualization that is high performing and affordable. Microsoft first introduced HCI in Windows Server 2016 with Storage Spaces Direct and Hyper-V.... read more →
Jun
30
In March of 2019 Microsoft announced Azure Stack HCI; an on-premise implementation of their Azure cloud service. Julia White, corporate vice president of Microsoft Azure, in a blog post put it this way, “We are bringing our existing HCI technology into... read more →
Jun
28
This May, the Cloud & Data Center Conference in Germany featured two days of presentations on the latest trends and development in data center, virtualization, security, networking and IT infrastructure technologies. DataON and XCES were platinum sponsors for this event and the Hyper-V Community + Hybrid Cloud... read more →
May
07
It has been an exciting journey since Microsoft introduced software-defined storage with Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012. With the introduction of Microsoft Azure Stack HCI this year, our enterprise customers are excited and ready to take that next step in transitioning from a traditional SAN to a hyper-converged... read more →
May
03
For our IT Hero blog series, we’ve invited our customers to share their real-world experiences from deploying Windows Server software-defined solutions. This month our IT Hero is Matt Lehmann. Matt is an information technology manager for Automotive Product Consultants (APC) Integrated Services Group, a leading marketing services company... read more →
Apr
02
One of the challenges that IT administrators face is deciding which hardware and how much hardware to purchase for their data centers. This is especially true for IT administrators that have made the decision to switch to a Microsoft Windows Server-based hyper-converged infrastructure. It’s still relatively new... read more →
Mar
26
When Microsoft introduced Storage Spaces Direct with Windows Server 2016, I was really excited about Microsoft’s entry into hyper-converged infrastructure. No longer were IT administrators tied to purchasing expensive and proprietary SANs. They could now use industry-standard interconnects, x86 servers, and local drives. Microsoft promised simplicity, high... read more →
Mar
06
The first week of February, the XCES team took a flight to the Nordic Infrastructure Conference (NIC) at Oslo Spektrum. NIC has been organized since 2012. It is a conference dedicated to driving technical IT best practice across IT Professionals and IT-Decision Makers who want to learn from the best speakers... read more →
Nov
14
Did you miss our Q4 Webinar on What’s New and What’s Next in Windows Server 2019 with Microsoft and Intel? Well… fear not, IT Heroes! Below is a brief & concise summary, along with YouTube timestamps, so you can jump right to whatever piques your interest: Cosmos... read more →