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Top 10 Reasons to Attend Looking AHEAD 2017
- May 24, 2017
- Posted by: AHEAD
No CommentsIf 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
Dell EMC World 2017: XtremIO Announcement Overview
- May 19, 2017
- Posted by: Chris Frank
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
Dell EMC World 2017: Dell HCI Overview
- May 19, 2017
- Posted by: Yon Ubago
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
Dell EMC World 2017: Major Product Announcements
- May 17, 2017
- Posted by: Freddie Schindler
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
Knowledge17 Recap: We Came | We Saw | We Wore our Red Shoes
- May 17, 2017
- Posted by: John Cole
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
We’ve Got Our Red Shoes On – AHEAD at Knowledge17
- April 25, 2017
- Posted by: John Cole
AHEADians will be out in full force at ServiceNow’s Knowledge17 conference this May 7-11 in Orlando, Florida. With everything from training to demos and breakout sessions with our Service Management and Cloud Computing and Automation experts, AHEAD is committed to helping our clients harness the power of ServiceNow to transform the modern enterprise. Here are
Auto-Scaling with AppDynamics, ServiceNow and Cisco UCS-Director
- April 18, 2017
- Posted by: Tim Carr
Application Auto-Scaling And The “Art of the Possible” For quite some time IT organizations have used automation and orchestration tooling to drive server and application deployments. By adding intelligence around when to trigger orchestrations, it’s possible to bring auto-scaling to your on-premise application deployments today. You can also make auto-scaling in the public cloud even
Webinar Announcement: Enabling IaaS in Your Enterprise Cloud
- April 11, 2017
- Posted by: AHEAD
Join us on Thursday, April 20, for a webinar jointly presented by AHEAD’s Solutions Principal, Nick Colyer, and Technical Architect, Tim Carr about Amazon Web Services (AWS)!
ScaleIO Tech Overview and Concepts – SDS-SAN vs SDS-Array
- April 5, 2017
- Posted by: Matt Hoyt
Software Defined Storage (SDS) Evolution No matter what avenue you choose to access your storage, there is software in some shape or form that is providing you access to your information. From traditional storage frames to large enterprise NAS arrays, we’re seeing software define how we deliver our data. We’ve seen thin provisioning, over provisioning,
Converged Infrastructure is Dead? Say It Ain’t So! (Hint: It Ain’t So!)
- March 24, 2017
- Posted by: Yon Ubago
As the Converged Infrastructure (CI) and Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) practice lead at AHEAD, I spend a significant portion of my time evaluating and designing solutions that include Dell CPSD (Converged Platforms and Solutions Division) components. In my last post, I introduced Dell’s primary pillars of CI/HCI, notably VxBlock (CI), VxRail (HCI), and VxRack (a bit