February 27, 2019
what makes NetApp SAN unique? It’s about modernization. For starters, let’s look at some of the “table stakes” for all-flash arrays: Outstanding performance ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of IOPS at <1µs of latency and multiple GBps of system throughput, which means users spend less time on performance management Multiple data efficiency technologies […]
Continue ReadingFebruary 20, 2019
When it comes to storage, scalability is king. Every business wants to grow — usually, the faster the better — and that means an organisation’s storage needs to grow too. Yet few vendors can deliver a storage system that can scale from a handful of users to thousands. Enter the NetApp AFF A700s, which retains […]
Continue ReadingFebruary 18, 2019
RUCKUS INTRODUCES ICX 7850 SWITCH FOR 100GBE EDGE-TO-CORE NETWORKS New user demands and technology advances are increasingly putting pressure on campus networks requiring them to scale to support more devices and deliver more bandwidth. The rapid growth in wireless traffic, accelerated by the adoption of 802.11ac and 802.11ax Wi-Fi, is propelling the migration from 1GbE […]
Continue ReadingFebruary 12, 2019
A large part of this time has been spent working on Converged Infrastructure systems such as FlexPod. As the industry has changed and evolved, I have moved into additional skillsets, focusing on automation and infrastructure as code, more recently working in cloud native technologies and DevOps/CICD. What is Hybrid IT? The term hybrid IT isn’t […]
Continue ReadingFebruary 7, 2019
In the newly published SPEC SFS2014 SWBUILD benchmark testing, AFF A800, the industry’s first all-NVMe flash storage system inside and out, delivered mind-blowing performance landing the #1 spot on the chart! It produced 4200 SPEC SFS2014 SWBUILD (software) BUILDS with an Overall Response Time (ORT) of 780µs. This is nearly 3 times the performance of […]
Continue ReadingFebruary 4, 2019
Ruckus does it again! The Ruckus Wi-Fi 6 R730 access point (AP) recently won the “Best Wireless Network Infrastructure Award” from the Wi-Fi Broadband Alliance (WBA). This prestigious industry award is based on several key criteria including technical capabilities; operator benefits; improvements in performance, cost control and network management; enhancement of existing network value-added services […]
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