What is Virtualization? In order to understand what a virtual data center is we need to first discuss what virtualization is. Virtualization is the practice of creating logical abstraction between the software functionality and the underlying hardware resources....
If you want to make the most of a public or hybrid cloud environment, you need the right technology. Access to fast, easy-to-use platforms can lower your development costs, limit resource overheads, improve business operations, and provide resilient, high-performing...
Backing up your data is essential to the survival of your business. As organizations move to the cloud, the need for tape drives and near-line storage is lessening. Although your data can be secure in the cloud, it’s important to have a rigorous, comprehensive, and...
If you do business in the European Union, or you hold data about or generated by EU citizens, you need to be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR puts data protection front-and-center, so how do you ensure you meet those regulations?...
If there’s one thing you might remember from your email inbox in mid-2018, it’s probably all the privacy policy updates and businesses begging you to stay on their mailing lists. This upsurge in activity came from a European directive — the General Data Protection...
We know that managing a data center seems like a never ending task. As soon as you’ve got one part optimized and locked down, something “interesting” happens elsewhere in the infrastructure and you’re back to fighting fires! Here at Red8,. We want to take the...
Unless you’re involved in IT service demand or capacity management, data center storage probably isn’t something you think about in your day to day. While these ITIL disciplines are the most directly involved with data storage, it actually touches on far more areas of...
As an executive or senior manager you’ve doubtless heard about the benefits of moving your technology to a cloud. A combination of on-demand pricing, enormous flexibility, quickly-scalable storage, and centralized management can make it an attractive proposition for...
As one of the leaders of an inspiring technology business filled with smart, energetic, talented people, I’m immersed in innovation on a daily basis. But every once and a while something causes me to pause and think about the breathtaking rate of technology change and...
Red8 is thrilled to share this new post from IDC’s Senior Vice President of Enterprise Infrastructure and Datacenter, Matt Eastwood. Recently Matt keynoted Red8’s 2015 RealCloud Summit and shared his vast industry expertise on the digital enterprise in the 3rd...