The Walking Dead, AMC’s slow-blow, finely scripted, grueling zombie apocalypse flagship series, is on its seventh season of zombie head-crushing where-do-we-go-next, where-do-we-find-hope existentialism. After following the plight of Rick Grimes and company for all this time, it kind of got me thinking about the software-defined storage (SDS) trend. In... read more →
Apr
06
Apr
03
During a storage refresh, IT administrators must be able to forecast future data center needs, analyze and possibly implement new software and/or hardware and evaluate price-performance ratio. American Logistics Company (ALC), a national passenger transportation management company serving transit agencies, school districts and the healthcare industry, faced sluggish backup... read more →
Mar
21
As a storage architect, you are expected to be able to make the “right decisions” when it comes time to replace an aging storage area network (SAN). The challenge is that you often can’t find out whether your choice is right or wrong even a year after... read more →
Mar
16
Storage area networks (SANs) are like children – you don’t ever want to push them out of the house, even when they are clearly too old to stay anymore. After all, it is your data that is at stake. When Acropolis Technology, a managed service provider (MSP) and web... read more →
Mar
14
Making the right decision when you replace an aging storage area network (SAN) can be challenging, especially for medium-sized businesses who can’t typically afford to “do it twice”. When Acropolis Technology, a managed service provider (MSP) and web hosting company in St. Louis, MO needed to replace their aging... read more →
Feb
15
When it comes to your Windows software-defined data center, don’t you wish you... read more →
Jan
24
In our previous blog we covered how ageing Compellent SAN has become a nuisance to ImageTrend and hampered their ability to scale. ImageTrend responded by choosing Microsoft Hyper-V and Storage Spaces to support their growing customer base and provided them a platform designed from the beginning to support... read more →
Jan
20
Previous we introduced ImageTrend Inc., a hosting and data management company. ImageTrend supports multiple sites running over 1000 VMs, with a wide variety of customer developed and off-the-shelf applications, including over 250 SQL instances. Their ageing Compellent SAN had begun to hamper their ability to grow and scale... read more →
Jan
18
ImageTrend, Inc. is cloud hosting and data management company based in Lakeville, Minnesota serving clients in over 30 states. ImageTrend first cut their teeth in supporting first responder agencies requiring the highest SLAs for systems availability, enterprise-level data management and storage resources. ImageTrend provides hosting services and supports over... read more →
Nov
11
Over 150 registrants netted over 80 live attendees to this webinar—a testimony to the compelling... read more →