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Backup & Disaster Recovery Best Practices

Backup & Disaster Recovery Best Practices

Posted by Ben Marquis on Mar 24, 2020

3/24/2020 Backup, Replication, and Disaster Recovery (DR) have drastically changed, but the fundamental best practices remain the same. Best Practices: Establish a Disaster Recovery Plan ( … read more
Data Protection by Dell EMC

Data Protection by Dell EMC

Posted by Ben Marquis on Mar 17, 2020

Dell EMC Data Protection Solutions In the backup space, many of you only know Dell for their higher end Data Domain appliances. In mid-2019 Dell EMC announced a completely overhauled … read more
Tips and Tools for Sizing vSAN Clusters

Tips and Tools for Sizing vSAN Clusters

Posted by Ben Marquis on Feb 12, 2020

VMware vSAN is a big departure from traditional 3 tier server/network/storage architecture. In this post we will give you some helpful advice on sizing a vSAN cluster.Tip #1: Use Live Optics to … read more
When HCI is the WRONG choice

When HCI is the WRONG choice

Posted by Ben Marquis on Feb 07, 2020

By Ben Marquis – HCI, Cloud, and Storage Solutions Engineer February 7, 2020 Right now, Hyper-Converged Infrastructure aka HCI is all the rage. Like many new solutions that rapidly gain popu … read more
Mean Time Between Failures

Mean Time Between Failures

Posted by Ryan Brown on Feb 28, 2019

There are acronyms for everything now days. It can be even more confusing and complex in the technology industry, especially when it comes to enterprise hardware. Hard drives alone have dozens o … read more