The power and benefits of using NetApp® Active IQ® Digital Advisor have been espoused for quite some time. Now I want to bring to your attention one of the hidden gems that is sometimes overlooked in the long list of fantastic features that you get with Active IQ. And that treasure is the Active IQ […]
Digital transformation has been a hot topic for quite a while now, but the COVID-19 global pandemic has bumped its significance up to a matter of survival. Enterprise organizations looking to modernize their operations through transformation are realizing that cloud adoption is absolutely necessary. In this era of rapid transitions, adopting a hybrid cloud […]
This week, NetApp announced a major innovation to help customers looking for cloud-like operational simplicity built on the infrastructure of their choice. SolidFire Enterprise Software Defined Storage (eSDS) delivers NetApp SolidFire’s Element software decoupled from and independent of the underlying hardware. Many customers are building private clouds at huge global scale. They want to […]
IT infrastructures are becoming more complex, dense, and dispersed. IT personnel are challenged with quickly identifying, correlating, and resolving problems before they impact end users or the business. In addition, IT administrators need to be able to determine incident severity levels to help them identify and prioritize issues. NetApp® StorageGRID® has various methods for […]
Back in July, we announced a new high-availability solution for BeeGFS backed by NetApp® E-Series storage. If you haven’t read my introductory blog post I encourage you to start there for useful background before diving in. The first time I got hands-on with the deployment procedure I thought, “We’ve got to automate this process.” Don’t […]
NetApp is announcing many exciting new products at NetApp INSIGHT® 2020, the new NetApp® ONTAP® products include the AFF A250 and FAS500f systems. Both are all-flash NVMe additions to the ONTAP family. AFF A250 introduces a cost effective end-to-end NVMe to entry-level systems, while the FAS500f introduces high-capacity flash to the ONTAP portfolio. Although these […]
Typically, when you buy enterprise storage, you have to make hard choices. This is especially true with products from our competitors. Sometimes you can get the best performance, but it comes at a higher price. Sometimes you can get the cheapest system, but it doesn’t have the performance to consolidate enterprise applications or to serve […]
Major League Baseball is playing the final games of the 2020 postseason, which reminds me of my favorite baseball comedy sketch by Abbott and Costello: Who’s on first, What’s on second, I Don’t Know – third base! Great nicknames. This year I introduced one of our NetApp new college hires to the sketch. How […]
Language is an amazing tool. Humans leverage this tool in multiple settings as an efficient method to communicate and solve problems. It would be almost inconceivable to have our modern world without language. In fact, language really underpins almost all that humans do as they cooperate and move forward with other people. Another interesting point […]
Autonomous driving vehicles were supposed to be here by 2020. But COVID-19 and the sheer complexity of the challenge of anticipating what other drivers and pedestrians will do has delayed the release of fully autonomous driving vehicles. The solution is that these vehicles need to drive more miles in test mode and log more […]
The human autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a control system that acts unconsciously and regulates bodily functions, such as the heart rate, digestion, respiratory rate, and pupillary response. It’s fascinating how much work is done by a human ANS in the background. It’s almost overwhelming to consider how much thought and work it would be […]
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. —Harold Wilson If you’ve read my previous post on change, you might have noticed that consultancy firms like to write about embracing change. Change this. Change that. At times, I find this advice a little […]
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