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WANTED:
A Better Way to Manage and Optimize Hybrid Cloud Economics

Dana0213 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]IT leaders face complex choices when it comes to their cloud options. Literally, hundreds of thousands of services are available — and each business must decide what choice is best in terms of performance and price points. For the enterprise, a hybrid cloud environment is now the norm, which increases complexity even more. Given all of this complexity, many businesses are finding that their multi-cloud deployments are out of control and waste is rampant.…

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Protecting Your Enterprise – That’s Our Mission

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Our Story

From connecting systems that never stop, to data protection

comforte was founded in 1998 by the creators of a connectivity solution for mission-critical systems.
Soon after becoming the most widely used terminal emulation solution for HPE NonStop systems, comforte realized the next logical step was to make sure that communication between systems and applications were securely connected as well.…

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Responses to HPE Digital Learner and blended technical training opportunities

Kelly Baig0223 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]HPE is on a journey with our customers, to introduce digital learning and blended learning experiences. The responses have been overwhelmingly positive – and surprisingly varied. In this article, I will share some of these responses as examples of how Education Services are changing shape as our customers change their training requirements.

eLearning is not new to the world of technical training, having been offered in some form since CBTs in the 80’s.…

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HPE IoT Innovation Labs:
get started with your IoT or Intelligent Edge proof of concept (POC)

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The role of Edge Experience Zones in ideation

The edge, by definition, is anything that’s not a data center or cloud. The edge could be an assembly line, a windfarm, a submarine, a smart car, a smart city, a power plant, a smart grid, an industrial oil refinery, a home, or hospital.

These are often harsh environments, and require specialized equipment.…

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Around The Storage Block

Calvin Zito0206 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Most of my articles here have been looking at a topic and I write about it. In this quarter’s article, I wanted to highlight a couple of the blog articles by other experts on Around the Storage Block that have attracted a lot of attention – in other words, these articles are getting a lot of views. I’ll pull a few of the highlights from them and give you a link where you can read the details.…

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>>TOP THINKING
Failback in Seconds: Customer Share Disaster Recovery Stories from the Data Center

Chris Purcell0195 views

Hurricanes, floods, cyberattacks, and simple human error — I’m sure you’ve heard your share of these types of data center disaster stories. Some disasters are predictable and give you plenty of time to prepare. Businesses in the “tornado belt,” for example, experience a much higher probability of weather-related outages in certain months and can plan ahead. Other businesses, unfortunately, get completely blindsided.…

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Editor’s Letter

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“Success is the sum of details.”
– Harvey S. Firestone

 

Welcome to the Fall issue of Connect Converge

It would be impossible to count how many conversations I have heard that either start with or end with, “This keeps me up at night.” We’ve all been there. It is safe to say that many of us have had our own brush with a security compromise.…

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President’s Letter

Navid Khodayari0186 views

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Greetings HPE Community,

I hope everyone thoroughly enjoyed their summertime and is refreshed going into the Fall!

We at Connect started out our summer in hot Las Vegas for the HPE Discover show. As usual, HPE presentations were in full force as we had our first official Vegas keynote from Antonio Neri as CEO. He wooed the crowd with customer stories and announced HPE’s 4 billion dollar investment in The Edge.…

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>>TOP THINKING – Teach your children well. Hyperconverged can help.

Chris Purcell0241 views

Teach your children well. Their IT purgatory will surely go by…”  I’ve stretched the lyrics a bit, but not the meaning. Crosby, Stills & Nash were making a good point in that classic song: In order to prepare our children to be the innovators of the future, it’s really important how we teach them, not just what we teach them. High tech education requires infrastructure that can keep up with the latest technology advances.…

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Which Applications Should The CIO Run In The Cloud?

Feisal Mosleh0280 views

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Introduction

Many organizations are starting to utilize the cloud for their enterprise applications. Before doing so it is prudent to consider the pros and cons of the private or public cloud environments and which applications may best be suited to make the most of the cloud.

Those applications that are very sensitive and delicate, or risky to move to a private cloud may be better left in the datacenter until an appropriately planned move with safeguards can be executed.…

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