Brief History Years ago, the migration from physical servers to virtual servers brought about a shift to agility that had been unknown previously. No longer were our…… Read more “Spectrum Fusion and SDS for Containers”
Author: VirtuallyTiedToMyDesktop
Long time virtualization architect with years of VMware and Citrix implementations. Storage architect, with certifications and messaging skills over a wide variety of ecosystem vendors. Years as well of presentation and evangelism on subjects ranging from Cloud, DR and VDI to Big Data and enterprise application virtualization and storage.
Working at Conection Enterprise solutions as a Technical Sales Executive specializing in Cloud, Virtualization and Storage.
My years in Virtualization, Storage, and consulting, coupled with many years on the customer side of the equation give me insight to the requirements of many tiers of customers.
Connection presents solutions on every avenue of the solutions provide spectrum. We've got demand fulfillment, and managed services. We do contracted support roles, application development, hosting services, consulting elements and full scope product consulting, project management and specialties in SAP Hana, OpenStack, HP Helion, Big Data, and all elements of infrastructure assistance including Cisco, VMware, Oracle and Hewlett Packard strategic alliances.
Additionally, a Field Day Delegate, writer for various brands, particularly storage, as well as occasional SolarWinds postings. Guest hosting on the GreyBeards On Storage Podcast https://silvertonconsulting.com/gbos2/
Flowmon addresses Security and Performance
Siloing operations within the data center is a completely non collaborative and inefficient practice. Breaking down the walls between teams has been a goal for enterprise IT…… Read more “Flowmon addresses Security and Performance”
Threat Intelligence, Intsights, and Ransomware mitigation
If you’ve been paying attention to the IT industry lately, you’ve undoubtedly realized that unauthorized access to your company’s data, and most particularly your Active Directory credentials,…… Read more “Threat Intelligence, Intsights, and Ransomware mitigation”
Converged architecture built for AI
AI and ML have different requirements, and as such different requirements. Machine Learning (ML) is the processes whereby granting the machine access to a large pool of…… Read more “Converged architecture built for AI”
Need help with complex Backup/DR?
Backup, recovery, and data protection are hard. Really hard. As an architect of backup systems among other tech, I can say that there are rarely simple architectures…… Read more “Need help with complex Backup/DR?”
MemVerge presents at #TFD22
Last May, @RayLucchesi and I met with Charles Fan on the Greybeards on Storage Podcast, which you can listen to here. It was a great conversation. I…… Read more “MemVerge presents at #TFD22”
The CTOAdvisor and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Part2
In a follow-up to the setup article I last posted, I wanted to outline what we sought in the CTO Advisor’s cloud migration project. Scenario: We defined…… Read more “The CTOAdvisor and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Part2”
The CTOAdvisor and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Part1
Up until now, we have had 3 major players in the public cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure Cloud, and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) have…… Read more “The CTOAdvisor and the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – Part1”
IT lessons we should take from the Covid experience
This experience has brought into stark relief the gaps we’ve neglected in our data centers. While I have hopes for lessons learned, particularly around what I’ve perceived…… Read more “IT lessons we should take from the Covid experience”
DR and Covid-19
In 2001, after the attacks on the world trade center, and we became aware of just how vulnerable our corporate infrastructures were, we began to have far…… Read more “DR and Covid-19”
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