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Dell PowerStore Released!

Datacenter Hyperconverged Storage

Dell officially announces, releases, and launches their new midrange storage product today. You may have heard rumors about this platform under its code name midrange.next....

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by Rick Gouin | on May 5th 2020 | 10 Comments
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Link Personal AWS Certs to Company APN account

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To be an Amazon Web Services (AWS) partner, there are requirements for people at your company to have various certifications. The higher the level of partnership, the more...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jan 22nd 2020 | 20 Comments
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Dell EMC SC Series Veeam Plugin Now Available!

Datacenter Disaster Recovery Storage

This has to be one of the most commonly requested integrations for SC. It seems like every time I talk about SC with a customer, they ask about Veeam integration. After...

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by Rick Gouin | on Sep 30th 2019 | No Comments

Why Upgrade?

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“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” – IT Manager, Fortune 500 manufacturing firm “Once servers are deployed in our environment, we never...

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by Rick Gouin | on Jan 2nd 2019 | No Comments

New Storage Dense Dell R740xd2 Could Be Great for HCI!

Datacenter Servers

R740xd2 Front with trays open This thing is awesome.  Dell just launched the Dell Poweredge R740xd2, which is essentially a 3.5″ drive version of the Poweredge R740xd. ...

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by Rick Gouin | on Dec 4th 2018 | 1 Comment

Storage Center 7.3 (Compellent)

Datacenter Storage

Storage Center (Compellent) Operating System version 7.3 became generally available last month.  Its been rolling through the various stages of release all summer, and I...

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by Rick Gouin | on Oct 18th 2018 | No Comments

Nutanix AOS 5.9 in a Nutshell

Datacenter Hyperconverged

AOS 5.9 is now available.  This comes about 3 months after AOS 5.8 was released back in July.  Its worth noting that this is the release that adds support for VMware 6.7. ...

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by Rick Gouin | on Oct 5th 2018 | No Comments

Dell EMC Takes Aim at Low End Storage

Datacenter Storage

I’ve been involved in solutions for a few customers recently where they opted to not buy part of the solution, instead choosing to go with a less expensive storage option...

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by Rick Gouin | on Sep 26th 2018 | No Comments

Game Changers at Nutanix .NEXT 2018

Datacenter Hyperconverged

Nutanix .NEXT 2018 was held the 2nd week of May in New Orleans this year.  I have to say that I greatly appreciate attending a conference somewhere other than Las Vegas. ...

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by Rick Gouin | on May 15th 2018 | No Comments

New Dell Poweredge MX Series

Datacenter Servers

  Dell Technologies World this year was a combination of the former Dell World and EMC World events that has come about from the joined companies.  This year, I think one...

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by Rick Gouin | on May 2nd 2018 | 1 Comment
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RickGouinRick Gouin@RickGouin·
23 Aug

Dell SC storage arrays, maybe better known as Compellent, are now officially end of sale. I wrote up a post with a few things users need to know here: https://www.rickgouin.com/dell-sc-end-of-life/

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RickGouinRick Gouin@RickGouin·
25 May

Worked with a few folks to use storage array snapshots to recover from ransomware attacks recently. Here is a checklist to help harden your @Dell SC Storage array: https://www.rickgouin.com/hardening-dell-storage-center/

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RickGouinRick Gouin@RickGouin·
8 Apr 2021

Our own @vMattK popped up on @boston25 news last night talking about a recent cyber attack on the State of Mass RMV that caused vehicle inspections to shut down: https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/rmv-inspections-out-commission-after-cyber-attack-vendor/EL5PVJWKVVCLFCRT5MVO4MYQ5E/

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