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Verizon, publisher of the Data Breach Investigations Report, had their own fill of security problems this past week. It may not be fair to state Verizon is at fault, but the operator of their call centers, NICE Systems, inadvertently put millions of Verizon’s customers at risk.   NICE Systems, an Israeli based technology company serving

As the Converged (CI) and Hyperconverged (HCI) infrastructure practice lead at AHEAD, I spend a significant portion of my time evaluating and designing solutions, including Cisco’s HyperFlex (HX). I wrote this introductory post shortly after HX was released in 2016, but before I received an HX unit in our lab. At that time, almost everyone’s

In our introductory post, we addressed Enterprise License Agreements (ELAs) generically and reviewed some of the benefits to both customers and manufacturers. In this follow-up, I will address some of the specific nuances of the structure of a Dell EMC ELA. Legacy EMC began marketing ELA agreements to their customers more aggressively in the past

Since Salesforce launched almost two decades ago, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has been taking enterprises by storm. With vendors like Microsoft and Adobe moving their core applications to subscription-based models, and vendors like Box and ServiceNow replacing on-premises solutions with cloud-based solutions, SaaS has become the preferred way to consume core business software. The proliferation of cloud-based

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