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Case Study: The Data Doctor

Alamance Regional Medical Center practices good medicine by updating its storage environment.

ARMC had virtualized many servers—and has even earnestly begun moving to a thin-client computing model—but was stifled in part by an older storage architecture that didn’t quite fit with the organization’s cutting-edge reputation. Realizing server virtualization was a great first step, ARMC also knew something else was missing, something that could help shrink IT costs even further.

Working closely with business partner Yorel Integrated Solutions, ARMC diagnosed the problem and found a cure in the form of the NetApp-based IBM N series storage solutions. Using that platform as a unified storage architecture, ARMC has seen many additional cost savings, including a $90,000 annual reduction in its storage budget, a 65-percent decrease in storage requirements thanks to deduplication, and a savings of $50,000 related to the purchase of new-capacity storage upgrades. 

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How do you define the cloud?

By Brent Adam
Manager of Consulting Services/Solutions Architect

Everyone seems to have their own perspective on cloud computing... internal vs external, services vs architectures, here to stay vs marketing hype, competive vs complimentary... what's your take?

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Novell -  www.novell.com/cloud
VMware - www.vmware.com/solutions/cloud-computing
Citrix - www.citrix.com/c3
IBM - www.ibm.com/ibm/cloud
NetApp - www.netapp.com/nl/company/leadership/cloud-computing   
Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computingdership/cloud-computing 

Too Much Virtualization?

By Andy Gerringer
IT Optimization Solution Consultant

With the push that most environments have to go 'Greener' and yet better and faster, do you ever stop to wonder, is there a such thing as too much virtualization? 



Today, you can have virtualized desktops running virtual apps, attached to virtual servers, who communicate on virtual networks and place their data on virtual storage. Whew! It's no wonder why there are still so many companies still hesitant to move forward with the architecture. 



The key for any company, in my opinion, to be able to manage it all and stay in the game, is to have a trusted partner that works with multiple vendors and platforms. Having and managing a complex environment takes time and resources and a trusted partner is there for the long haul and not the quick sell.



I know this from experience, after 20 years in the IT arena, 15 of which working on the customer side of the fence, the value that a trusted partner brings cannot be measured by dollars and cents.

Pay-As-You-Grow, But Start for FREE!

By Andy Gerringer
IT Optimization Solution Consultant

I'm talking about Netscaler. Let me start by saying that I love Netscaler.
The things you can do with a single appliance is awesome. Load balance, ssl offload, secure access, etc... 

With everyone doing virtualization (and you haven't you will or at least should), Citrix has answered the call to make sure everyone can provide great load balancing, for FREE, on a virtual appliance instead of having to depend on some other lackluster technologies like network load balancing and dns round robin. The VPX Express. Starting at a mere 1Mbs throughput, but just fine if your simply trying to accomplish load balance handoffs, you can simply pay a small fee and upgrade the features and throughput, 10Mbs, 200Mbs, 1Gbs and now 3Gbs, in a virtual appliance. 



But if that isn't good enough for your environment, then grow on up to a physical appliance, the MPX line. Starting at 1Gbs and speeding all the way to 50Gbs, you get all the same great features across the board in many forms in which to choose. Start small and Pay-As-You-Grow. Citrix Netscaler, it should be in your datacenter today!

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