Chapter Update – Minnesota Connect Chapter Connect WorldwideMarch 17, 20180205 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The MN Connect Chapter/MUG (MN user group) in partnership with HPE held their Tech Day on Tuesday, February 13th at the TIES Conference Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. This full-day tech event allowed user group members to attend numerous breakout sessions (Aruba, Simplivity, Synergy, Nimble, 3Par, Servers, best practices, tricks of the trade, management, configurations/setup, monitoring, etc.).… Read more
>>Top Thinking Chris PurcellMarch 17, 20180170 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]What makes the future exciting? Simplicity. In all of our wildest imaginings in stories and movies about what the future will be like, a simpler life is almost always a central theme, driven by amazing technologies. The world today is getting closer and closer to these imaginings. The smartphone gives us one place to do pretty much anything, anywhere. You don’t necessarily have to get out of bed to turn the lights off if you’ve equipped your home with “smart lights,” and you can use your phone to activate your robot vacuum while you do more valuable things.… Read more
Advocacy Steve DavidekMarch 17, 20180177 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Connect Kicks off Tech Forums at HPE Discover 2017 Keeping things fresh, that was the goal of the change a couple of years ago when we rebranded Connect’s in-booth Discover sessions from “SIG Meetings” to “Tech Forum’s.” The idea is to spend a half hour on a customer or product story and then an open forum with HPE support for attendees to ask the hard questions or ask for better ways of doing things.… Read more
Top 10 Storage Trends of 2018 and Why You Should Care Calvin ZitoMarch 17, 20180157 views [vc_row][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1566401381666{padding-right: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;}”][vc_column_text]In this quarter’s storage column, I want to share with you an article that was originally posted on my Around the Storage Block by Vish Mulchand. Vish is a Senior Director of Product Management and has broad industry experience. What is on the horizon for data storage? With 2018 comes a new opportunity to make changes such as replacing aging data center infrastructure, incorporating AI into your storage stack, and revisiting your data protection strategy.… Read more
Editor’s Letter – Spring 2018 Stacie NeallMarch 17, 20180191 views “Stop chasing what’s now and create what’s next.” – Unknown The New Normal is Hybrid IT Welcome to the Spring edition of Connect Converge. You’ve no doubt heard the term digital transformation by now, it has become a part of our everyday vernacular in technology today. It is reshaping the modern enterprise. We know that getting to hybrid is about managing both sides of the coin; taking the best of the old, and adding the best of the new and strategically integrating the two.… Read more
HPE Nimble Storage–a year later Calvin ZitoMarch 17, 20180193 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]It’s been just over a year since we acquired Nimble Storage. I was thinking about it recently as we had an HPE Nimble Storage related announcement at the beginning of May. I’ll talk more about that in a bit but I wanted to share some thoughts about the last year. No one was more surprised than me when I got an email from my manager the night before we were going to announce the acquisition.… Read more