When you’re dealing with a modern, all-flash array, you need data efficiency technology to keep up. Otherwise, what’s the point of having such a speedy solution? Perhaps you’ve heard the terms “thick provisioning” and “thin provisioning.” These terms get tossed around a lot in the storage community, but which is right for you?
Machine Learning, AI, and All-Flash Arrays: Leave Performance Tuning in the Past!
September 30, 2020
Whether you realize it or not, we’re exposed to artificial intelligence and machine-based learning every day. The virtual assistants on our smartphones, the smart speaker in your living room, your social media account, and even your favorite TV-streaming platform all use artificial intelligence and machine learning for optimum performance and personalized user experiences.
Stream Networks, a high-performance network integration and service company utilized VIOLIN products to provide MSP services to their customers. Three customers moved their infrastructure to the VIOLIN QV2020 and saw instant success.
SQL Servers and All-Flash Arrays: The Perfect Pair
September 16, 2020
Structured query language servers or SQL (sometimes pronounced “Sequel”) servers are becoming an increasingly important tool for any data scientist to have in their toolbox. It’s a key asset that can be used to do all sorts of things, like access, update, inserts manipulates, and modify data, and it also helps in communicating with relational databases.
How Arcserve and Palmiq's group of experts can help any organization.
May 5, 2020
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How to keep your mission critical machines up and running.
May 1, 2020
Hi. I'm here today to talk to you a little bit about a little known secret to get your most mission-critical machines up and running with absolute minimal downtime.
Today, I want to talk to you about one of the things that we hear in a lot of our customer environments, and that is this theme of doing more with less.
What VMware storage software can save thousand of hours?
April 17, 2020
Today, I want to talk to you about some software that was devised specifically to save thousands and thousands of man-hours of management within hypervisor-based infrastructures.
Paying for Microsoft 365 Does Not Mean Your Data Is Protected
Microsoft introduced a native Microsoft 365 Backup product in 2024, and it is a meaningful step toward addressing some of these gaps. For organizations that have not yet implemented any third-party backup solution, it is better than nothing. But understanding what it does and does not cover is important before treating it as a complete solution.
Backup Is Not a Product. It Is a Business Strategy.
One of the most consequential distinctions in modern IT strategy is the difference between cybersecurity and cyber resilience. They are related but not synonymous, and confusing them produces protection strategies with predictable blind spots.
This is the fragmentation problem. It is not a technical inconvenience. It is a structural vulnerability that organizations have been building into their IT environments for years, often with the best intentions. Each tool was a rational purchase. Collectively, they created an architecture that makes response slower, management harder, and the attack surface larger than it would have been with fewer tools operating as a unified system.
Your Backup Exists. But Will It Work When You Actually Need It?
It is one of the most common and costly misunderstandings in enterprise IT. Most organizations believe they are protected because they have a backup product, a green dashboard, and a monthly invoice from a cloud storage vendor. When the worst happens, they move toward recovery with complete confidence. Then they discover that the confidence was misplaced.
The 3 AM Test: What Happens When Your Systems Go Down and Nobody Is Awake?
This guide walks through the 3 AM scenario step by step, identifies the specific gaps that most healthcare organizations have in their after-hours protection, and provides a practical framework for building the kind of 24/7 resilience that healthcare operations actually demand.
You Survived the Breach. Now Comes the Part Nobody Warns You About.
The servers are back online. The ransomware has been contained. The backups restored what could be restored. The immediate crisis is over, and the adrenaline that carried the team through seventy-two sleepless hours is starting to fade.
Your Data Is Leaving the Building Every Day And Nobody Is Watching
Data leakage is invisible because it does not look like an attack. There is no breach notification. There is no ransomware demand. There is no system going offline. The data leaves quietly, in small amounts, through channels that appear normal to anyone who is not specifically looking for the pattern.
Phishing in 2026: Why Training Your Employees Is No Longer Enough.
Effective email security in the current environment requires a layered architecture in which technical controls intercept threats before they reach the human decision point, and in which the human layer is the last line of defense rather than the primary one.
Too Many Tools, Zero Integration. The Hidden Risk in Your IT Stack.
The obvious cost of tool sprawl is financial. Multiple vendors, multiple licenses, overlapping capabilities being paid for twice, and the administrative overhead of managing a large number of vendor relationships, contracts, and renewal dates.