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  • vRealize Automation & Azure – Together at Last!

    • June 21, 2017
    • Posted by: Adam Youngblood
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    The majority of AHEAD’s clients are doing work with both Microsoft and VMware, but when it comes to the cloud, integration is not easy. We are excited to highlight offerings and integration between products from Microsoft and VMware, who are key partners of our clients as well as AHEAD. In this overview, I demonstrate how

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  • The Evolving NAS Market

    • June 8, 2017
    • Posted by: Scott Reder
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    Unstructured data continues to see rapid growth coupled with evolving use cases and access patterns in AHEAD’s customer base. With the popularity of interfaces such as object storage, unstructured storage systems are diversifying to cover new protocols to maintain market share. The downside is that diversification adds complexity and there are often notable compromises that

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  • AHEAD Achieves AWS Storage Competency for Consulting Partners

    • June 7, 2017
    • Posted by: Greg Thursam
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    How We Started AHEAD celebrated our 10th anniversary this year. Originally born and bred as a storage partner, we quickly incorporated virtualization and a broad spectrum of data center technologies.  Subsequently, we expanded our focus to grow a business and results-oriented consulting practice in 2010, which is now our primary customer engagement model.  As part

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  • Adopting SD-WAN in the Enterprise | Overdue Transformation for the Wide Area Network – Pt. 1

    • June 2, 2017
    • Posted by: Pete Robertson
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    The software-defined revolution has dominated the IT industry over the past several years as enterprises relentlessly pursue increased efficiencies, lower costs, greater agility, and accelerated ROIs. We’ve seen significant transformation within the data center as software-defined solutions have displaced traditional architectures and matured to become the de facto standard for many use cases, yet most

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  • The Name: Looking AHEAD 2017, The Game: IT Transformation – Looking AHEAD 2017 Featured Presenters

    • June 1, 2017
    • Posted by: Jody Phipps
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    The countdown is officially underway for Looking AHEAD 2017 and we couldn’t be more excited! As the momentum builds for our 4th annual technology summit, so does the anticipation for the day’s impressive agenda of speakers, featuring top-level IT professionals from some of the nation’s leading organizations. Oh, and did we mention our keynote speaker,

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  • Top 10 Reasons to Attend Looking AHEAD 2017

    • May 24, 2017
    • Posted by: AHEAD
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    If you haven’t already heard, Looking AHEAD 2017 is fast approaching! This year marks our fourth annual technology summit and it’s going to be bigger and better than ever. In the past, this event has been described as “game-changing” by attendees who continue to come back year after year. If that’s not reason enough, check out

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  • Dell EMC World 2017: XtremIO Announcement Overview

    • May 19, 2017
    • Posted by: Chris Frank
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    Recently, Freddie Schindler and Yon Ubago both wrote overviews about the announcements at Dell EMC World 2017 and building off that excitement, I’d like to take a deep dive into the XtremIO X2 announcement, where it sits in the market, and how AHEAD ties this into our Cloud Delivery Framework. Some DellEMC clients found that

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  • Dell EMC World 2017: Dell HCI Overview

    • May 19, 2017
    • Posted by: Yon Ubago
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    As the Converged (CI) and Hyperconverged (HCI) infrastructure practice lead at AHEAD I spend a significant portion of my time evaluating and designing solutions that include Dell CPSD components (CPSD stands for Converged Platforms and Solutions Division – formerly VCE). My last post focused on VxBlocks and Vblocks, providing an update on the products themselves, as

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  • Dell EMC World 2017: Major Product Announcements

    • May 17, 2017
    • Posted by: Freddie Schindler
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    Dell EMC World 2017 was in Las Vegas last week, with over 13,000 attendees participating in one of the premier technology conferences of the year. Several of my colleagues and I attended the event to meet with our partners, our clients, our prospects, and to learn what’s next for Dell EMC. REALIZE Transformation This year’s

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  • Knowledge17 Recap: We Came | We Saw | We Wore our Red Shoes

    • May 17, 2017
    • Posted by: John Cole
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    The AHEAD crew wrapped up a very successful and fun Knowledge17 conference last week. Welcome back to work all those of you who joined us in Orlando this year. For those we spoke to, those we didn’t, and those who were unable to make it, here are a few of our key takeaways from this year’s

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