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By: Jason Phippen

May 8, 2019 7:18 pm

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Managing the New IT

A new generation of IT technologies has led to a revolution in IT management. Today’s IT infrastructure management systems put the emphasis on automation, remote configuration, and rapid deployment.   In the old days, system administrators spent a majority of their time watching file servers, managing user accounts, and ensuring network connectivity, but […]

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By: Jason Phippen

April 29, 2019 11:31 am

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IT Infrastructure Management: What You Need to Know

In the old days, system administrators spent a majority of their time watching file servers, managing user accounts, and ensuring network connectivity, but today’s infrastructure is a busier and more exotic place. Applications hide in containers, systems hide in other systems, new configurations appear and disappear with a single mouse click, and every file […]

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By: Jason Phippen

September 25, 2018 10:35 am

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SUSE Manager: Comparing the Alternatives – Ansible, Chef, Puppet and SaltStack

Comparing the Alternatives In my previous blog series we took a dive into SUSE Manager 3.2, looking at what SUSE Manager is, how it works and how it is configured. In this follow on blog we take a look at how SUSE Manager 3.2 compares with Chef, Puppet, Ansible and SaltStack. SUSE Manager […]

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By: Jason Phippen

May 22, 2018 4:35 pm

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451 Research Report: Managing the Data Explosion Challenge with Open Source Storage

Executive Summary Business IT is facing storage growth that’s exceeding even the highest estimates, and there’s no sign of it slowing down anytime soon. Unstructured data in the form of audio, video, digital images and sensor data now makes up an increasingly large majority of business data and presents a new set of […]

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By: Jason Phippen

April 25, 2018 7:03 pm

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SUSE questions Richard Fischera, Vice President, Principle Analyst Infrastructure and Operations for Forrester Research about explosive data growth

In this video question and answer session, SUSE asks Richard Fischera, Vice President, Principle Analyst Infrastructure and Operations for Forrester Research his view on enterprise storage.  We talk data explosion drivers, risks, changing data types, Software Defined, Open Source, hybrid, compliance and converged. So Richard question 1: What are the biggest factors driving explosive […]

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By: Jason Phippen

February 15, 2018 6:00 am

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SUSE shows highest functional score of Ceph distributions in Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Object Storage Research*

* Critical Capabilities for Object Storage - Published: 25 January 2018 ID: G00304492 It is not easy to get onto a Gartner research note: you have to have the right - and robust - product capabilities, be able to demonstrate them in rigorous questionnaires, and you have to wait for an outcome you can’t […]

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By: Jason Phippen

November 13, 2017 5:52 am

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The Future of Storage: four reasons why open source storage should be part of your strategy.

The comfortable world of storage appliance vendors of ten years ago is under assault from a wave of technical and market changes that are rewriting how storage and data protection processes are managed and governed. Enterprises need to plan now to deal with those changes – or face a future where data is locked into […]

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By: Jason Phippen

October 6, 2017 5:41 am

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Does your storage need a re-think

IDC’s Digital Universe Study predicts a staggering 10x growth from now by 2020. If you are struggling with volumes now, think ahead to what it is going to be like in a few years’ time, and ask yourself this question: Is your current storage strategy going to cope? It likely you are going to […]

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By: Jason Phippen

October 4, 2017 1:28 am

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SUSE is First to Deliver BlueStore – IT Brand Pulse Industry 1st Award for SUSE Enterprise Storage

BlueStore Boosts the Performance of Ceph Storage BlueStore is a major enhancement to Ceph storage because it eliminates the longstanding performance penalties of kernel file systems, with a whole new OSD backend which utilizes block devices directly. SUSE is First to Deliver BlueStore SUSE Enterprise Storage 5 Beta is now available and includes the industry’[…]

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