Managing change and upskill when you are moving to composable infrastructure Tony ShortlandJuly 8, 20190251 views What exactly are the benefits of moving to automated infrastructure provisioning for your company? What does this mean for your future business model? How will you provide new IT and business services over the next 1-2 years? What does this mean for IT teams and each individual? Composable Infrastructure messaging is typically focused on simplifying tasks and removing IT challenges. Challenges including: Spending countless hours on infrastructure requests and manual tasks Staffed with IT administrators lacking specialized skillsets Less time for innovation hinders business performance Frustrated lines of business resulting in lower productivity due to lag time Rigid, slow, and costly operations with a manual process But how many times have you been on the phone to a call centre, renewing your home or car insurance, booking a holiday, or talking to a utility provider, when you hear the phrase “sorry, the computer isn’t doing as it’s told, I thought these things were supposed to make life easier”.… Read more
Möbius Partners and Texas Christian University: Standing Up Active-Active Data Centers with Zero Downtime Felipe NetoJuly 8, 20190233 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”bounceInDown” css=”.vc_custom_1565296854586{padding-top: 25px !important;padding-right: 25px !important;padding-bottom: 25px !important;padding-left: 25px !important;background-color: #92b43d !important;}”]Challenges: Separate data centers and aging storage Lag during high availability tests Disaster preparedness Business Continuity Solution: Active-Active Data Centers VMware vSphere 6.5 2 HPE 8440 StoreServe All-Flash Arrays Benefits: Ease of management HPE Peer Persistence allows high-availability Failover capabilities under 5 minutes with no data loss Stretch and metro clusters allow for multi-level of resiliency on storage, compute, and networking Confidence in IT from students and staff Data compaction 3.2:1, data compression 2.1 and deduplication 1.5 Documentation and training to prepare the TCU team [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Texas Christian University (TCU) has long been an HP-based organization with significant investment made in its equipment.… Read more
Recapping the storage news from HPE Discover Calvin ZitoJuly 8, 20190277 views Discover has come and gone and it was a fantastic event for me. I had a great time meeting people and sharing my passion for storage. If you were unable to join us in Las Vegas, I want to give you an overview of some huge news we announced at HPE Discover 2019. If you’d rather watch a video, this Chalk Talk is the same information but there are several links in my article that you can get more on the things I discuss.… Read more
What is HPE NonStop’s play in Hybrid IT? Thomas GloerfeldJuly 8, 20190299 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Let’s start at the beginning. What Is Hybrid IT? At its most basic level, hybrid IT is a blend of cloud-based and on-premises IT services. The pursuit of standardisation used to be a best practice for building IT architecture, as IT organisations prefer to manage only one type of computing. Due to pressures from both the business and IT to shift toward cloud services, however, hybrid IT has become more and more prevalent.… Read more
Where the Rubber Meets the Road: How Users See the IT4IT Standard Building Competitive Business Advantage Dana GardnerJuly 8, 20190230 views Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you’re reading BriefingsDirect. Our next IT operations strategy panel discussion explores how the IT4IT™️ Reference Architecture for IT management creates demonstrated business benefits – in many ways, across many types of organizations. Since its delivery in 2015 by The Open Group, IT4IT has focused on defining, sourcing, consuming, and managing services across the IT function’s value stream to its stakeholders.… Read more
The Data-centric World of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Frederic Van HarenJuly 8, 20190332 views [Compute-centric] In the early days of High-Performance Computing (HPC) the concept of solving complex problems was driven by how much processing power was available to achieve a goal within a reasonable amount of time. At the same time, the algorithms that made up the HPC applications were designed to take full advantage of the processing capabilities with no limits in sight.… Read more
Pay as you grow with flexible IT services Scott RamsayJuly 8, 20190221 views Companies can save significant time and money by monitoring and paying for only the computing power they use. Here’s how that can work. Ever since the cloud became a major force in enterprise computing, IT leaders have been confronted with a choice: maintain data, applications, systems, and networks in-house or move them to the cloud, with its promise of cost savings, scalability, and improved agility.… Read more
A Note From Connect Leadership Navid KhodayariJuly 8, 20190246 views [vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Greetings Connect Community, Summertime is here! The sun is out, the beach is packed, and the 2019 HPE Discover is officially in the books! Your Connect team was there to hear about all the latest and greatest from HPE and to provide some great presentations to the community at large. While we all expected to hear about the latest with Hybrid IT, Edge Computing, Aruba, and all the other familiar HPE technologies, we received quite the welcomed surprise when Phil Davis took the stage at the General Session.… Read more
Hyperconvergence Delivers Unexpected Results for VDI Users Thomas GoepelJuly 7, 20190159 views The self-help industry is steadily growing, due to a basic human desire for improvement. Consumers can find a plethora of books, podcasts, and seminars, not to mention products and services that promise positive change. IT organizations that want to experience similar improvements can find them by implementing some less-than-urgent technology makeovers. The results can often deliver unexpected and far-reaching benefits. Client virtualization environments stand to benefit more than most, because even small improvements in system performance are multiplied across hundreds of desktops.… Read more