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VMware Exit for Ransomware Resiliency
VMware is coming under ever-increasing scrutiny for its ransomware shortcomings, and now customers are considering a VMware exit for ransomware resiliency instead of just to reduce licensing costs. The heightened concerns come from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, and recent VMware vulnerabilities have been part of…
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Scaling Infrastructure in Three Dimensions
Scaling infrastructure in three dimensions lowers the cost of equipping, operating, and upgrading the data center. The problem is that traditional three-tier (compute, storage and networks) can’t scale beyond a single silo. IT professionals will also find that even hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) falls short if…
Move Beyond HCI to UCI
VergeIO’s VergeOS is ultraconverged software that enables IT to move beyond HCI to UCI. Ultraconverged Infrastructure (UCI) is complete convergence. Instead of layering virtualization, storage, and networking into a node, UCI integrates the three tiers into a cohesive operating environment that increases efficiency while reducing…
The Total Cost of Replacing a SAN
Storage vendors force you to replace your storage system every four to five years, so understanding the total cost of SAN replacement is critical for IT professionals to learn. After all, replacing a SAN (storage area network) or NAS (network attached storage) has more expenses…
CIOs seek to reduce or halt cloud spending per Venture Beat
According to a new study from Wanclouds, 81% of IT leaders say their C-suite has directed them to reduce or take no additional cloud spending as costs skyrocket… Read the article
The $1 Trillion Question
Public Cloud… Costs $1 Trillion in Market Cap Sarah Wang and Martin Casado of Andreeson-Horowitz assert that cloud spend is reducing enterprise values of tech companies by a trillion dollar. Some excerpts… There is no doubt that the cloud is one of the most significant…
Q2 2022 is VergeIO’s most productive quarter ever
We just finished our best quarter in VergeIO‘s history. Our VP of Sales Chris Lehman led the team to this fantastic outcome. Our KPI’s show that we have a repeatable, and scalable sales process. Our final few deals of the quarter had record low sales…
Plan B for VMWare
Everyone needs a Plan B One of the reasons I continue to love the technology industry so much is that it never stands still. For a long-time fan of Charles Handy, it definitely follows his mantra of good companies requiring constant product evolution, even if…
Getting Relief from Open Stack Complexity
I read that there are 21 million cores running Open Stack clouds. That’s a lot of workloads. Lately we’ve been hearing that IT leaders are struggling to find Open Stack (and other) cloud engineers. The complexity of deploying, sizing and maintaining an OpenStack environment often…
The value of knowing your Cloud Unit Cost Economics
When I was CEO of Online Tech (now Otava) we did a lot of unit cost economics on every service we sold. Each service had it’s own SKU. We had a few 100 of them. So, there was a SKU for a cloud server. There was a…