ePlus, a long-time trusted NetApp partner, empowers organizations to imagine and accomplish more with technology. Beginning with assessment, ePlus advises, designs, implements, and optimizes cloud, security, and digital infrastructure solutions to help customers: thrive in the digital economy and multi-cloud world; drive better business outcomes; stay ahead of the innovation curve. Ken Puffer, ePlus CTO was asked […]
With all the vendor hand-waving around efficiency ratios like 5:1, 10:1, even 55:1, how do you cut through the marketing fluff and have confidence you are purchasing the least amount of storage you need? “Do more with less.” “Data is growing exponentially, but IT budgets remain flat or are shrinking.” These seem to be […]
“We’re not turning around!” This has been my wife’s mantra for the three decades we’ve been married. Regardless of what may have been left at home, she’s made it clear: “Once we leave the driveway, this car only goes forward”. This used to be an impractical stance. Both she and I remember our parents turning […]
Stadiums and event venues have traditionally relied on video surveillance data for evidentiary purposes—retrieving and investigating footage only in the unfortunate event of an incident. However, in recent years, future-looking venues have discovered that they can turn their existing security infrastructure into a source of real-time insights into their customers. By incorporating analytics software […]
Are you a techie? Or do you have one on your team? Or maybe you just love the idea of automating your work processes? If any of those apply to you, listen up! And even if they don’t apply to you, you’ll want to read this blog post anyway, just because you want to know […]
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming healthcare in ways we never thought possible. And it really is all about the data. At Mt. San Rafael Hospital, our mission to improve patient care. Using data, we can help healthcare professionals make more informed, accurate, and proactive assessments and diagnoses. The ability to analyze data in real […]
FlexGroup volumes are NetApp ONTAP’s scale out NAS solution, providing a blend of capacity, performance and simplicity by leveraging what has always worked for ONTAP – FlexVols. While the use cases for FlexGroup volumes are numerous, we’ve generally touted FlexGroup volumes as a way to enhance high file count environments with high amount of […]
Welcome to the fifth and final part of this series on choosing storage for your high-performance computing (HPC) solution. In the previous blog posts, I talked about speed, reliability, simplicity, and scalability. In this post, I will cover a key consideration upon which many business decisions are made: cost. By nature, HPC environments are […]
With digital transformation, data is emerging as the biggest asset of any organization, pivoting business models in a way that was unimaginable just a few years ago. We are seeing every company transform into a data company. Although this transformation is creating possibilities for business like never before, it is possible only if businesses are […]
Management simplicity and operation efficiency constitute the top demand for large enterprise management today. As workload data becomes more diverse, storage needs have become more complex. Yet, the goal is to simplify to reduce cost and increase efficiency. The problem of complexity needs to be addressed in a way that doesn’t feel complex. Instead, […]
Welcome to the fourth part of this five-part series on choosing storage for your high-performance computing (HPC) solution. In the previous blog posts, I talked about speed, reliability, and simplicity. In this post, I will cover another key storage consideration for HPC environments: scalability. One constant in HPC environments across all industries is data […]
In this post, let’s look at how NetApp® Service Level Manager (SLM) enables storage consumption based on defined service levels while ensuring service levels and performance guarantees. Think of this as a three-step process: Start by standardizing your service levels and defining your service-level objects (SLOs) in your service catalog. With SLM, you can define […]
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