Sep 12, 2019 | Data Center, Ray's Myth Busters
In this Episode… The Dell EMC Modern Data Center Advisory Board is made up of approximately 20 partners in the United States, and Cerium’s Ray Hall is one of the two members from the Northwest. Membership on the board gives Ray the ability to bring our...
Sep 9, 2019 | Data Center, Ray's Myth Busters
In this Episode… While snapshots of their place in the infrastructure, They’re not backups. They should primarily be used pre-upgrade or pre-migration to save a set a point in time of your data. But what happens if you were to lose your primary site if you...
Sep 5, 2019 | Data Center, Ray's Myth Busters
In this Episode… Is data protection really worth the cost? Ray makes the case for why it’s a worthwhile investment, particularly in the modern era where organizations are constantly at risk for ransomware and cybersecurity breaches. In addition, Vendors...
Sep 2, 2019 | Data Center, Ray's Myth Busters
In this Episode… Public cloud storage can be expensive. So if you have all of your data hydrated completely, and there’s no data compression ratio built into that, it can get very expensive because you’re storing raw files. But Dell EMC has...
Aug 29, 2019 | Data Center, Ray's Myth Busters
In this Episode… Traditionally, some long-term archival methods such as tape have been the preference for organizations because there’s the perception that it’s the only medium that’s going to last. And while tape has historically been a...
Aug 26, 2019 | Data Center, Ray's Myth Busters
In this Episode… Even though backup is extremely important, a common misconception that stops organizations from investing in it is the myth that backup solutions are difficult to manage and that they require specialized skills. However, Ray explains that modern...
Aug 22, 2019 | Data Center, Ray's Myth Busters
In this Episode… At Cerium, we aren’t simply selling hyper-converged products, we actually run our own internal infrastructure on VxRail! Ray talks about Cerium’s transition from a three-tier legacy architecture to Dell EMC VxRail, which reduced...
Aug 19, 2019 | Data Center, Ray's Myth Busters
In this Episode… Some legacy-SAN vendors associate hyper-converged infrastructure with poor performance, and a common myth is that it doesn’t come with the same built-in features that a SAN provides. However, hyper-converged technologies today, especially...
Aug 16, 2019 | Cisco, Data Center, State & Local Government
How the IoT Helps Law Enforcement & Justice Agencies Work Smarter and Safer Continued budget cuts has resulted in staff reductions in many law enforcement and justice agencies, increasing pressure to reduce operational costs and increase efficiency. Many of these...
Aug 15, 2019 | Data Center, Ray's Myth Busters
In this Episode… It’s sometimes said that hyper-converged is for small deployments only and that it doesn’t scale well. But according to Ray, that’s not true! VxRail can scale anywhere from two, up to 64 nodes in a single cluster. In addition,...
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