Ray’s Myth Busters
About this Series
As today’s data centers shift toward modernization, a number of misconceptions about data center technologies have emerged. In this series, Cerium’s data center experts, Ray Hall and Gregg Pruett, separate fact from fiction and debunk some of the most widespread myths surrounding backup and recovery, cloud, hyper-converged infrastructure, storage, and more.
Ray Hall, Solutions Architect – Data Center
Ray is no stranger to Dell Technologies. He served as a Sr. Solution Architect at Dell EMC before joining Cerium in the summer of 2017. Ray represents the northwest region on the Dell EMC Modern Data Center Partner Technical Advisory Board, which unique access to hyper-converged/converged leadership, where he can provide direct feedback from customers.
Gregg Pruett, Vice President – Technical Sales & Infrastructure
Gregg’s expertise and knowledge are well-known in the technology and telecommunications industries. Gregg is a part of the Cisco Partner Technical Advisory Board, which gives him access to SVP and CIO level executives at Cisco, and new product announcements and directional changes. It also gives Gregg the ability to provide feedback to Cisco executives about products, marketing, strategy, and direction.
Recent Episodes
Ray’s Myth Busters: Advisory Boards
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
MYTH: A Snapshot is Considered a Backup
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
MYTH: Data Protection is too Expensive
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
MYTH: Backups Require a Large Storage Footprint
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
MYTH: Tape is the Best Form of Long Term Retention
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
MYTH: Backup Solutions are Difficult to Manage
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
Why Did Cerium Move to HCI?
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
MYTH: HCI Doesn’t Perform as Well as a Legacy SAN
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
MYTH: HCI Doesn’t Scale
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
Ray’s Myth Busters: The Cloud is Not a Place but an Operating Model
In this Episode… Dell EMC says the cloud is not a place you go, but rather an operating model. Ray sheds light on what they
MYTH: HCI Has No Play in the Cloud
In this Episode… Some public cloud vendors claim that hyper-converged infrastructure has no play in the cloud, and that it’s too expensive. In reality though,
MYTH: Hyper-converged Infrastructure Requires Specialized Skills
In this Episode… If your team doesn’t have any specialized skills when it comes to managing a hyper-converged infrastructure, then good news: they don’t need
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