Microsoft’s Azure Stack allows enterprises to run a hybrid cloud right in their own datacenters, giving them additional cloud options. Cloud computing continues to expand in use for a wide variety of enterprises, but it all doesn’t have to happen outside your company’s datacenters. IT leaders in some companies who worry about putting all their…
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Today, I am excited to announce I will be joining the awesome team at 5nine Software as Director of Product Management. My primary job responsibilities will be for the product strategy and direction of 5nine’s security and management solutions. So, you ask, why Product Management? It's been a lifelong dream to be part of shaping the direction…
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Enterprise cloud security is a 24/7 job, which means IT teams must always pay attention to every aspect of a company’s private, public and hybrid cloud infrastructure. And as challenging as it is today, there will always be new cybersecurity concerns in the future. Future Cyber Security Trends and Threats in 2018 For 2018, those…
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Cloud technologies have been used by enterprises for almost a decade to streamline their IT operations and create new efficiencies and business opportunities. But as hybrid cloud architectures have become more popular, the field has also brought new jargon and confusion. To help reduce the chatter, this guide can be used as a starting place…
Ignite 2017 Key takeaways This was the first year I have not attended Microsoft Ignite, due to unforeseen circumstances. But this didn't stop me from covering Ignite 2017. So here we go... Ignite 2017 this year has about 25k attendees. During the same time as Ignite, they are also running Microsoft Envision. This is more…
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Updated 9/22/17 The Journey to "Ready" This is my journey to building a world-class "Ready" Program and understanding what validation means to me and the customer....This will be a multi-part series of my journey. The early days of understanding the concept of "Ready" I've spent the better part of my life in IT consulting. It has…
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Before we go into what "Ready" really means. Every great journey has a story behind it. This will be a multi-part series starting with how I joined Nutanix and evolved myself to build a world-class program called "Nutanix Ready". Stay Tuned, Part 1 coming very soon! Rob
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Opinions are various and abundant on how to best configure and manage Hyper-V. Much of the advice seems to be confusing, and some if it downright contradictory. One reason for such confusion is that some articles are obviously written under the assumption that VMWare best practices apply equally well to Hyper-V. The other, more common…
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