By Richard Tengdin, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Nth Generation *This image was generated by Adobe Firefly. Since the dawn of server virtualization IT operations has managed their servers as a pool, letting application-level management fall back to the application owner. Memory was cheap, storage was cheaper, and software was licensed by CPU. IT wasn’t allowed (or able) to charge back resource usage to departments or projects, they just ran the pool as overhead cost. Boy,

Richard Tengdin, Enterprise Solutions Architect at Nth Generation, was awarded the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Partner “Solution Architect Rock Star for the Public Sector”. It is quite an accomplishment as he was selected from over 100 companies and top technical consultants that support HPE’s state and local customers. He was recognized as a solution architect with deep and wide technical knowledge and understanding of HPE compute and storage; and deemed an expert in co

Technical debt. This is a term used more and more to describe established IT environments that are overdue for updates of many kinds. The demand to deploy new systems and applications along with the lack of budget for regular hardware replacement means regular maintenance tasks can be ignored or deferred too many times, leaving the IT environment at risk. For example, running obsolete vSphere ESXi v5.1 on old processor hardware (i.e., Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge, or Opteron serv

IT organizations are used to running older servers, storage, and networking gear. The typical mantra is to run them as long as possible; then even longer in an attempt to save money, reduce IT project churn, and stabilize the IT infrastructure. We’ll discuss a few of the problems that are created by this policy mindset, and the risks that are perpetuated either knowingly or unknowingly. In this article, there are two core viewpoints of the typical company thought processes th

What’s your data protection backup plan? What can happen if data protection is an afterthought?