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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

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

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

How much bandwidth is enough? The instinctual answer, born from harsh experience always seems to be “more than is available”, but is this actually true? As with anything in IT, the answer is “it de … read more

BackgroundMany Dell PowerEdge servers have an option to boot select hypervisors from either a single SD card or dual mirrored SD cards. The advantage of this is that the server can be diskless or the … read more