Big Data? Big Whoop!
Big Data? Big Whoop!
Big data has been a persistent buzzword in business publications. Run a web search, and big names like Accenture and Oracle will come in at the top. However, unless you are |
Consensus On Hybrid Cloud
Consensus On Hybrid Cloud
By now, you may be tired of all the industry hype touting cloud infrastructure. Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Rackspace, Gogrid, Flexiscale and many other companies are a |
Destruction Via Encryption
Destruction Via Encryption
Depending on company size and an individual’s role in IT, their knowledge of
encryption can be categorized as “heard of it”, “use it if someone else sets
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If You Don’t Have Solid-State Drives, You’re Missing Out
If You Don’t Have Solid-State Drives, You’re Missing Out
Even though everyone in the IT industry admits that solid-state drives (SSDs) have superior performance, many IT buyers still refuse |
Is Your Virtual Environment Running on the Right Hardware?
Is Your Virtual Environment Running on the Right Hardware?
by Ben Yampolsky
By now, many of us have firsthand experience with the benefits achieved through virtualization. Whether elimi |
Maximize Utility
Maximize Utility
As technologists, we are always on the lookout for the latest gadgets. Shiny, new gizmos beckon us with unspoken promises of making our communications smoother, our work less o |
Preparing To Switch
Preparing To Switch
Big data has been a persistent buzzword in business publications. Run a web search, and big names like Accenture and Oracle will come in at the top. However, unless you are |
Storage and Networking Convergence
Storage and Networking Convergence
Last month at the HP Discover conference in Las Vegas, HP unveiled a datacenter switch offering all 40GbE ports with optional 100GbE interfaces. This ties in |
The Desktop Peacefully Passes
The Desktop Peacefully Passes
Gartner printed the obituary for the desktop computer last week in their Computer Devices Report which shows a clear consumer shift to the mobile platform. Market |
The Next vWave
The Next vWave
Technology years are like dog years: for every year of advancement in other fields, technology moves ahead seven times faster. By now, the majority of IT industry professionals h |
Tiered Storage
Tiered Storage
Google “Cloud Storage” and no shortage of results come back: Google Drive, Amazon S3, Amazon Glacier, Dropbox, SugarSync, Mozy, Box, Crashplan, Carbonite, Zip Cloud, and on a |
Top Questions for Your Next Storage Vendor
Top Questions for Your Next Storage Vendor
Truth be told, keeping up with a myriad of storage solutions can be overwhelming. Without taking the time to weigh your options, key cost savings and |
Ubiquitous Communication Through WebRTC
Ubiquitous Communication Through WebRTC
Welcome to Aventis Systems’ Techie Tips for 2014. If you have been a
follower of these installments, you have seen a wide variety of posts
covering |
Windows XP PC's a.k.a. The Walking Dead
Windows XP PC's a.k.a. The Walking Dead
Why was Windows XP so popular that more than 10% of PC's still run this end-of-life operating system? Was it that XP was the first truly stable user OS f |
Windows XP, Target Data Breach, and Cautionary Tales For CIO Hopefuls
Windows XP, Target Data Breach, and Cautionary Tales For CIO Hopefuls
In the wake of the high profile data breaches during last year's holiday shopping season, many companies are turning thei |
