How 3PAR Addresses The Biggest Part of IT’s Spend [HP]

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Since HP won the $2.3B battle over 3PAR, they have brought the enterprise-class features of 3PAR storage into a mid-range solution offering. This pre-configured, converged storage platform combines HP 3PAR software with HP EVA storage arrays and HP BladeSystem ProLiant server hardware.

SearchStorage.com recently published their 2013 purchasing intentions survey, and concluded that:

  • The largest chunk of IT budget goes to storage systems
  • 60% of companies say they are using more storage because of virtualization
  • 25% say cloud storage services will play a major role in their future strategy

Because the largest chunk of an IT budget is spent on storage, I asked Softchoice Solutions Architect Adam Wolfson to give us his opinion on why HP 3PAR storage may be right for you.

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4 Ways Application Delivery Controllers Enhance Your Application Infrastructure [F5]

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If you’re like most organizations, lack of application availability and poor performance issues for key services cause instant uproars from within user communities. For IT organizations, this means balancing user complaints while simultaneously trying to resolve the issue.

Help users keep their pitchforks in the shed where they belong.

I recently talked to Brandon Reid one of our Networking Technical Architects at Softchoice. He revealed four reasons he believes application delivery controllers (ADCs) are critical to create a strong application infrastructure, and by proxy, happy, productive users.

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The Software-Defined-Data-Center (SDDC): Concept or Reality? [VMware]

The Software Defined Data Center

Besides being a mouthful to say, the concept of a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) is based on abstracting hardware from the delivery of business applications. Forrester defines SDDC as “…an abstracted and pooled set of shared resources. But the secret sauce is in the automation that slices up and allocates those shared resources on-demand, without manual tinkering.” What does this mean? A Google search returns 242M results with many opinions of what an SDDC is and what it means.

To help you save time, I’ve aggregated information from posts featuring Forrester, Gartner, VMware’s CIO, Virtualization Review, InfoWorld and more so you can quickly discover what people are saying about SDDC and gather some insights about what this means for your business now and in the future.

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