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What hyperconverged infrastructure can do for SMBs

Thorough IT infrastructure builds tend to be cost-prohibitive and consequently, difficult to justify for many businesses. Hyperconvergence is a great alternative to traditional IT builds, both in terms of cost and robustness. What are hyperconverged infrastructures? In a traditional IT environment, networking, server, and storage hardware need to be purchased separately and configured to work …

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Why more businesses should virtualize

Virtualization / By Kenneth Yellen

Not too long ago, cloud apps and platforms were the answer to IT efficiency. Today, virtualization is the solution everyone is talking about. And as a business owner, you probably want to know if virtualization can improve your business’s processes. What is virtualization? Virtualization is the creation of a virtual version of a device or …

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Difficulties when backing up a virtual server

Virtualization / By Kenneth Yellen

Many small businesses have embraced data virtualization over the past few years. And as with any kind of business data, virtualized data needs to be protected from disaster, cybercrime, and human error and, therefore, needs backup. When backing up your virtualized data, there are some most common difficulties you need to prepare for. Data virtualization …

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Virtualization management: 3 Areas to look into

Virtualization / By Kenneth Yellen

Knowing about the perks of virtualization is cool, but setting this up and implementing it properly will require you to tackle a few things.

10 Important virtualization terms

Virtualization / By Kenneth Yellen

Virtualization — the process of creating a software version of a hardware component such as a server — is one of the most beneficial tech solutions for small organizations. For many business owners and managers, however, this is a vastly complex concept that comes with some pretty heavy jargon. To help, we have come up …

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4 Virtualization myths you shouldn’t believe

Virtualization / By Kenneth Yellen

Explaining the concept of virtualization is no easy task and failed attempts to do so have left it with a less-than-ideal reputation. We want to set the record straight about virtualization’s many benefits by dispelling four of the most common misconceptions about it. Myth #1 – Virtualization is too expensive for SMBs Many people assume …

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3 Concerns with implementing virtualization

Virtualization / By Kenneth Yellen

Virtualizing your servers, networking devices, and other machines can drastically lower costs and dramatically shorten IT infrastructure deployment times. However, implementing this requires a lot of IT expertise that can’t just be pulled off by regular technicians. Here are three things specialists consider when managing virtualization efforts. Backing up data can be such a hassle …

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Virtualized business: Costs and benefits

Virtualization / By Kenneth Yellen

Virtualization addresses many challenges that businesses face when upgrading their hardware and network. That’s because deploying virtualized systems offers an affordable and flexible solution to a typically arduous problem. But before you invest in a virtualized infrastructure, consider the following costs and benefits. The advantages One of the most significant advantages of virtualization is that …

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Virtualization and licensing

Virtualization / By Kenneth Yellen

For a successful virtualization project, it’s important to understand software licensing and support policies for virtualized and cloud environments. Today, many enterprises invest in software to track licensing compliance and vendor support policies because policies could differ substantially among vendors. For most, licensing concerns focused on deploying server applications to server virtualization infrastructures. Here are …

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