Information Technology Navigator

By Jake Roczniak and Eric Grueter, Senior Consultants

This year at EMC World 2014, EMC had a variety of different technologies available for us to get some hands-on time.  Here are some of our favorites and ones that we think the industry will be seeing more and more of in the future.

As the dust settles from VMworld 2013, more clarity is being provided on VMware’s cloud product strategy regarding vCloud Director and vCloud Automation Center. Here are 2 articles that explain VMware’s roadmap lifecycle for both VMware vCloud Director (vCD) and VMware vCloud Automation Center (vCAC).

By Sean Gilbride, Director of Professional Services and Matthew Trottier, Virtualization Practice Manager

After spending 3 fun-filled days out in sunny San Francisco at VMworld 2013, we wanted to take some time to share our impressions of this year’s event and the most note-worthy products and announcements.

By Ned Fairweather, Senior Consultant/Data Protection Practice Lead

Whether you’re already using Symantec NetBackup or you’re considering it as a backup solution, we think NetBackup 7.5 is worth a close look. Daymark has deployed NetBackup 7.5 in several customer environments. Our technical consultants have found the product to be stable with dramatically increased backup speeds, but that’s not all. Here are 7 feature enhancements we think are worth checking out:   

Author:   Jeff Choinski, Consultant

Guest Blogger: Jason Diesel, Director, Systems Engineering, Varonis

Exchange, MSSQL, File Services, SharePoint and AD...Microsoft applications play major roles in most IT environments these days. It's not accidental that the major storage vendors are making great effort to easily integrate with these applications. VSS Framework seems to be the prevailing wind.