By Zunesis / March 4, 2021 / assessmentit infrastructureIT roadmap
Desire for IT Infrastructure Transformation Over the past year, we have seen a substantial increase in the demand of organizations wanting to right-size, refresh, or otherwise transform their IT infrastructure/data center. Many organizations want to understand their opportunities to improve efficiency and service to the business and end-users through newer technology and IT delivery methodologies. […]
READ MOREBy Zunesis / February 18, 2021 / network access controlNetwork managementnetworking
Network Access Control (NAC) – keeping the devices and users where they belong. I work in a lot of network environments and I see a lot of different approaches to security and networking. One constant I have found is that all IT professionals struggle to adequately identify and secure the devices that may be on […]
READ MOREBy Rachael Stiedemann / February 4, 2021 / converged infrastructuredHCIdisaggregated hyperconverged infrastructurehyperconverged infrastructureinfrastructure
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions When making the decision on what is the best solution for your infrastructure, there are a few popular options available. Options include Converged, Hyperconverged, and Disaggregated Hyperconverged. Depending on the size and complexity of your environment, this will impact which infrastructure you may choose. Choosing between the different available architectures means having a […]
READ MOREBy Zunesis / January 21, 2021 / Linuxlogical volume managementlvmstorage
Do your Linux servers use LVM? If not, you should strongly consider it. Unless, you are using ZFS, BTRFS, or other “controversial” filesystems. ZFS and BTRFS are outside of scope for this discussion but are definitely worth reviewing if you haven’t heard of them and are running Linux in your environment. Logical Volume Manager for Linux […]
READ MOREBy Zunesis / January 7, 2021 / maintenancerenewals
Centrally Manage Your Maintenance Contracts Maintenance contracts are supposed to deliver peace of mind. Yet, when you have dozens of contracts with various vendors – all with different renewal dates, they can quickly become a headache. We work with our customers to identify what hardware, users, vendors, and services are covered, as well as those […]
READ MOREBy Zunesis / December 24, 2020 / passwordsphishingransomwarevpn
Santa made a list and he checked it twice. Let’s find out who’s naughty and who’s nice! Naughty List Who is on the naughty list this year? Ransomware Attackers Bad Password Creators Uncommitted Remote Workers Wondering why Ransomware Attackers take the number one spot on this year’s naughty list? Ransomware is malicious software that […]
READ MOREBy Joe Tressler / December 17, 2020 / backupsIT Health checkmonitoringservers
Blogs typically are not hard to write. The trick is to find something relevant for the readers and something that is passionate to you. Just take a look at some of the blogs my teammates here at Zunesis have written. The year 2020 and how the Covid-19 pandemic are affecting our world, a topic which […]
READ MOREBy Zunesis / December 10, 2020 / data storagehpe cloud bankhpe cloud volumeshpe cloud volumes blockhybrid cloud
Growth in Hybrid Cloud It is probably no surprise to anyone reading this that the move to Hybrid Cloud is picking up pace. IT organizations are moving data and workloads offsite for protection or to expand resource capacity more dynamically without increasing their capital spend. Of course, protection and capital management are just a couple […]
READ MOREBy Peter Knoblock / December 3, 2020 / AIedge computingIT Budgetstrends
For those of you who think that on January 1, 202 at 12:00 AM the world is going to go back to the way it was before COVID reared its ugly head, I have bad news for you; we’re still going to be in this fight. I wish it wasn’t true. I really do! However, […]
READ MOREBy Stacy Lara / November 19, 2020 / assessmentsplanningthanks
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving.” William Arthur Ward Things to Be Grateful for This Year Maybe Thanksgiving isn’t on your radar yet. Or maybe you skipped right over it and are already draping your dog in tinsel. (No judgment here; it’s been a weird year, and we could all use the […]
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