Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) saving the world is not that far-fetched. Had it not been for VDI admins, architects, virtualization admins, and network providers, who knows what our world would look like today. Not to beat the pandemic drum again, but the reality is, VDI has exploded. If you’re the team member who is responsible […]
In early June, Europe’s financial markets watchdog issued draft guidelines for those outsourcing part of their technology infrastructure to cloud service providers. While acknowledging the benefits of cloud computing – “reduced costs and enhanced operational efficiency and flexibility” – the European Securities and Market Authority cautioned against over reliance. According to the report, cloud […]
In 2010, FlexPod® began as an idea for combining the best-in-class products from Cisco and NetApp® to address certain applications and workloads in a converged infrastructure solution. In 2020, FlexPod celebrates its 10th year, and we’re also celebrating an amazing 10-year journey of productive partnership between Cisco and NetApp — a journey that has evolved […]
As applications rapidly migrate to public and private clouds, application developers like me are expecting more from traditional enterprise infrastructure. Simply providing servers and storage in a corporate data center, even in a cost-effective way, is no longer adequate. Inside NetApp, our IT Infrastructure team embraced this demand and built a highly automated, self-service, cloud-based application […]
A couple of weekends ago my family decided to go camping. We packed up the car with the cooler, the tent, chairs, stove, food. It was stuffed to the brim. We drove up into the mountains and after much deliberation we found the perfect spot. We unpacked and set up the tent, eager to get […]
For several years now, customers have approached digital transformation at their own pace. Although the benefits of virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) are undeniable, for many customers the old way of doing things was often good enough, making digital transformation something they could take their time with. But now, the global COVID-19 pandemic has thrown […]
In our continuing efforts to innovate, to simplify, and to enhance performance, we released NetApp® Single Mailbox Recovery (SMBR) 8.3 last month. The key enhancement in this release is that you can mount NetApp Snapshot™copies on SMBR; in previous versions, you had to mount them on the Microsoft Exchange host. More Efficient, More Secure, and […]
Any new hybrid cloud project has many moving parts – not the least of which is storage. Because of its overall impact on performance, reliability, and scalability, storage can be one of the most important decisions you have to make. To help you navigate the variety of solutions in the market, Gartner researched the […]
Over the past few months, nearly every organization has undergone a rapid transformation to take care of employees, customers, and day-to-day business operations. We’ve seen that you need the flexibility to support employees as they move from offices to their homes and back. You need to keep your data available and secure without sacrificing […]
When thinking about high availability for your BeeGFS parallel file system, you need to consider data durability and data availability. Durability means that your data won’t be lost because of drive failures, bit rot, or some other form of corruption. Availability means that data is accessible whenever you need it. A NetApp® E-Series storage system […]
Everyone knows that the quickest way to recover from a ransomware attack is to restore from backup. It sounds simple enough, but the actual restore process can be complex, not to mention slow. Has the backup data also been encrypted? Are the backups that I need still there? How much time will it take to […]
In this digital world, it’s all about data—not only at the enterprise level but at the individual level as well. And as we all know, data is growing rapidly in both structured and unstructured forms, To manage and maintain that data is costly affair. Have you ever lost a lot of really important data? […]
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