The many recent highly publicized cyber-attacks have proven to the world that substantial change is required in the way organizations protect intellectual property, prevent breaches, respond in the event of a direct attack and mitigate overall risk. Given its...
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Deduplication and Compression: Bringing Flash to the Masses … of Applications
All-flash arrays (AFAs) are sweeping across the technology landscape like a tidal wave, for enterprises of all sizes. They promise super-fast I/O as well as ease of installation, but flash technology is still relatively expensive from a $/GB perspective. Yet, despite...
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): The Roadblocks and Rewards
One of the greatest technology advancements of the last two decades has been virtualization. In the mid-2000s we saw server virtualization accelerate the power of data. Today it is the defacto standard for most corporate platforms and enterprises are now racing to...
Three Big Themes for 2015: Re-platform, Optimize and Virtualize
Flash Storage, Hyper-Converged Storage and Software Defined Data Centers Take Center Stage Costa Mesa, CA – February 26, 2015 – As virtualization technology continues to transform corporate information technology (IT), flash storage, hyper-converged infrastructure and...
Red8 Named NetApp Flexpod West Partner of the Year
Additional Awards at NetApp Insight 2014 go to Red8 Including the Cisco Impact Award, the Winner’s Circle, and Outstanding Contribution by a NetApp Tech Team Partner “Red8 is a long-standing and outstanding partner,” said Regina Kunkle, VP of …
Why Reducing IT Complexity Leads to Better Business Outcomes
The current rate of change in the technology space is arguably unprecedented. We live in a new world order where consumer and business technologies are driving advancements faster than we can process. This has resulted in a level of intricacy and difficulty that...
Moving at Cloud Speed: Flash Storage and Cloud Computing Valuation
In today’s economy, every business, no matter the industry, must constantly do more with less. The days of “local optimization” are over. For example, the conventional thinking of optimizing the costs and time of a particular group within IT does not yield the kind of...