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Ready Player None: Protecting What You Can’t See

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]There is quite a large disconnect in the way breaches are evolving versus how security solutions are keeping up to address them. Virtualization adds an entire new layer of complexity to the puzzle. As a security strategist, I’m constantly evaluating what is possible to help identify gaps and opportunities. The one thing I have learned over the course of my career:

The only thing constant in cyber security is that attackers’ methods will continue to evolve.  …

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SPOTLIGHT: Janice Zdankus

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“You don’t know what you don’t know; you don’t always know what you’re missing.”

For Janice Zdankus, diversifying the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields is essential to our world’s growth. Without these voices, industry and research lack insight and perspective on how to solve many of the world’s problems. This issue is becoming increasingly prevalent as technology employers are experiencing a shortage of qualified employees; however, many see helping underprivileged students to enter STEM professions as a way to combat this problem.…

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Chapter Update – Minnesota Connect Chapter

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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.).

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>>Top Thinking

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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.

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Advocacy

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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.…

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Top 10 Storage Trends of 2018 and Why You Should Care

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[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.

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Editor’s Letter – Spring 2018

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“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.…

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HPE Nimble Storage–a year later

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[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.…

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