At Red8, we surround ourselves with incredibly talented, well-rounded, and innovative engineers who continue to educate themselves as new trends emerge. We consult externally to provide a service, but we consult internally with each other to stay at the top of our...
BOSTON, Mass., April 21, 2021 — Red8, the industry expert in architecting modern infrastructure, today announced that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, will honor Red8 on its 2021 Tech Elite 250 list. This annual list features IT solution providers of all sizes in...
Just when we thought cybercrime couldn’t surprise us anymore, in 2017 we had the likes of Uber and Equifax announce massive data breaches; Equifax, admitting in a statement about the breach that, “criminals exploited a U.S. website application...
At a recent technical partner event, a software engineer in the audience posed a question that illuminated the fact that many IT folks still rely heavily on Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) and wizards. He postulated that in order to further simplify concepts around...
These days, you can’t have a conversation about the Cloud or DevOps without someone mentioning Containers. Although container technology has long existed in the Linux ecosystem, it was cumbersome and complicated, leaving users and operations engineers generally...
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...
The cutting edge of processor technology is nothing short of amazing, and their capacities continue to increase according to Moore’s law. But one area that has not made the same progress happens to be the one area that data centers desperately need to catch up:...
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...
Executive summary Flash storage is every data center’s version of a supercharged sports car. Nothing beats it in speed, efficiency, and handling—though it will burn through your cash much faster than a standard consumer vehicle. Despite the high cost of flash storage,...
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...