Whilst new SMBs may be dabbling with online application suites, the bulk of the established SMB workload, however, is done in desktop applications, typically Microsoft Office, running in various flavours of Windows with a Windows Server. This is definitely not in the cloud, and there are lots of very good reasons why it won’t be, and less radical solutions are likely to offer more benefit.
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Migration Week: To an Apple MacBook Pro
This has been migration week. The next two posts will cover several migration efforts in very different spaces. The first migration I wish to discuss is how to migrate from one Apple MacBook Pro (MBP) to another. While many folks have covered use of tools like Migration Assistant or doing things by hand, I think …
VMware’s Roadmap, Hybrid, Is the Future
It has been almost five years since VMware laid out its vision based on the ideology behind the software-defined data center (SDDC). This announcement came during one of the keynote addresses during the VMworld 2013 conference in San Francisco, California. Since that time, VMware has been working diligently to make its vision a reality while helping to shape the definition of what a twenty-first-century data center is and will be moving forward.
Security at Scale: User Behavioral Analytics
Recently I was invited to participate as a delegate at Tech Field Day 16 in Austin, Texas, where we visited with Forcepoint. Forcepoint is a company with a combined portfolio that includes user and entity behavioral analytics (UEBA). UEBA’s primary focus is determining what is normal for a user and then deciding if a given …
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Zerto Knocks Them for 6.0 with Its Latest Release
I was privileged to witness Zerto’s humble beginnings at Tech Field Day 6, when it came out of stealth with a product that quite frankly surprised us. Why? Not because Zerto was so different, not because it was a technical game changer, but because it seemed at the time to be a product too late …
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Microsoft Buys Avere Systems to Bolster Performance Storage Offerings
Microsoft is quick out of the blocks this year on the acquisition front with an announcement that it will acquire Avere Systems for an undisclosed amount. Avere Systems is a hybrid cloud data storage company based out of Pittsburgh. Its main offering is a blend of on-site and cloud-based storage that places hardware on the …
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