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An ideal time for an IT infrastructure assessment of your network may be before a large rollout that is expected to change the nature of your network structure. For instance, a decision to move to the cloud, the addition of new applications, or simply to understand where needed improvements exist could all be the best … Read more
Addison, Texas – Dell EMC recognizes Virtual Tech Gurus, Inc (VTG) with the 2018 “Best Creative Thinking Partner” award for their impressive candor approach and dedication to continuously seeking improvement opportunities at an award ceremony of Dell’s Services partners in Austin, Texas on October 1st, 2018. “Their pro-active approach to updating their business model with regular … Read more
DevOps has been widely adopted in the software business, but does it have a place in the wider IT environment? DevOps has proved to accelerate project times, reduce reworking and support innovation by breaking down barriers between team members, increasing collaboration and introducing higher levels of automation. Those benefits can be important for IT teams … Read more
Storage Optimization – Infrastructure Assessment is Vital The previous article in this series explained why storage optimization is vital to competitive advantage, user and customer experience, and operational efficiency. But, before taking measures to optimize storage, it’s essential to carry out infrastructure assessment to discover, understand and document your current environment. The infrastructure assessment also … Read more
Storage Optimization – Infrastructure Assessment is Vital The previous article in this series explained why storage optimization is vital to competitive advantage, user and customer experience, and operational efficiency. But, before taking measures to optimize storage, it’s essential to carry out infrastructure assessment to discover, understand and document your current environment. The infrastructure assessment also … Read more
Are you ready for Yottabytes? That’s a question storage experts are asking. We’ve already passed Exabytes and Zetabytes as denominations, and that just leaves one more measure of storage capacity. The question reflects the continuing boom in data growth, and it highlights the need to move storage solutions to new levels of performance and manageability. … Read more
Recent surveys from leading analysts highlight the continuing uptake of software-defined WAN (SD-WAN). Gartner, for example, forecasts SD-WAN to grow at 59 percent CAGR through 2021, while IDC predicts the size of the SD-WAN market to be $8.05B by 2021. The continuing growth has encouraged a large number of vendors to enter the market, with commentators estimating … Read more
Overview Virtual Tech Gurus (VTG) helped a major credit card company refresh its data storage and migrate to new technologies. VTG developed a phased approach that enabled a fast seamless migration against an extremely tight deadline with no allowance for downtime. By using ZENfra™, our proprietary migration tool, we managed and monitored the complex change … Read more
Overview Virtual Tech Gurus (VTG) helped a major insurance company transform multiple datacenters to improve support of 900 different applications and meet the needs of the business more effectively. VTG carried out an independent review and developed a phased approach that fixed recurring support failures and carried out the transformation quickly and efficiently. By using … Read more
A recent article by McKinsey & Company, ‘Cloud adoption to accelerate IT modernization’, posed the question – is migration to the cloud a means, not an end in itself? The firm points out that many organizations are struggling to get full value from their move to the cloud, despite spending on cloud initiatives running at … Read more