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4 Challenges CIOs and IT Managers Need to Overcome to Succeed

Today’s CIO and IT manager have more lessons to learn, things to address, and challenges to overcome than any generation prior to now. New technologies burst on the scene in rapid-fire fashion, knocking aside older technologies faster than you can say, ‘but we just bought that’. The datacenter is moving to the cloud, desktops are becoming virtualized, and security problems and solutions are more complex than ever. What are the most significant challenges that you must face and overcome to make it in today’s fast-paced, highly competitive world of IT? Here are 4 challenges CIOs and IT Managers need to overcome to succeed:

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zadara_admin May 17, 2016
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The Why and When of an Industry-Wide Shift to OpEx Everywhere

Significant IT expenditures, such as servers, storage arrays, networking equipment and critical software systems have historically found themselves squarely in the CapEx expenditure pile. Capital expenses take longer to get approval, are generally larger and riskier expenditures, and essentially lock the company into a particular IT infrastructure, at least until the lifecycle of the expense is complete and the investment has delivered its expected ROI. But what if all that changed? What if many (potentially all) of those IT investments could be shifted to the OpEx side of the ledger? That’s precisely what is happening now. Common “as-a-Service” offerings are IT solutions (both hardware and software, and occasionally a nice mixture of the two) are served up as cost-effective, pay-as-you-go alternatives to large, risky IT expenditures. So, why is there this industry-wide shift to OpEx?

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zadara_admin May 16, 2016
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How Hybrid Storage Solves IT Challenges

Social, mobile, analytics, cloud … SMAC has reshaped the IT department more quickly and thoroughly than any other innovation since business computers became mainstream. These innovations, however, bring IT challenges, including finding enough space and the right infrastructure to handle big data and the IoT, compatibility and integration problems trying to add mobile devices to your infrastructure, and the sheer costs associated with taking on all these new projects. As it happens, the cloud is actually an excellent solution for what social, mobile, and analytics bring to the table. Here is how the hybrid storage solves IT challenges today.

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zadara_admin May 11, 2016
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How On-Premise Storage-as-a-Service Works

By now, most people, especially those in the position to shop for IT products and services, are aware of the “aaS” or “as a Service” offerings. Currently, you can get a wide range of aaS offerings, including infrastructure, platform, application, storage, disaster recovery, database, monitoring, communications, and in case you can’t narrow it down: XaaS or “Everything as a Service” (also sometimes called “Anything as a Service”). To date there is no Kitchen Sink as a Service, but stay tuned. Since it’s new to the industry, many people wonder how On-Premise Storage-as-a-Service works.

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zadara_admin April 18, 2016
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Looking for Innovative Storage Technology? Check Out Object Storage

It hasn’t been that long, really, since most companies dealt mostly with data that could be measured in gigabytes. Today, businesses are commonly dealing with terabytes and petabytes – and larger companies are working with much more. Traditional storage architectures often were not designed to deal with these quantities of data, and many businesses are already looking beyond — to the era of the Internet of Things (IoT), in which exabytes of data aren’t uncommon at all. Many companies are looking for an alternative, innovative storage solution that addresses these enormous capacities and meets their cost goals. The answer is object storage.

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zadara_admin April 14, 2016
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What are the Differences Between Software-Defined Storage and Traditional SAN & NAS?

If you’ve paid any attention to the IT blogs, news magazines, and tech journals, you’ve likely noticed the trend toward everything being ‘software defined’. You’ve probably heard of software-defined data centers, software-defined networking, and more. Software-defined storage marks a revolutionary new way of building and managing storage — one which costs less, yet is more agile, more reliable, and better supports multi-tenancy. So, what are the differences between software-defined storage and traditional SAN and NAS?

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zadara_admin April 6, 2016