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About 2 years ago
Contributed a review of A10 Networks Lightning ADC: A good load balancing and application delivery solution with strong security features, but comes at a high-price point
Almost 3 years ago
Answered a question: What is an EDR product and how different is it from an Endpoint Protection solution in 2022?
EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) can be viewed as the next generation of EPP.
While in EPP you already have detection/investigation of security incidents and protection, these are more integrated into EDR.
You can thus consider EDR to be more behavior-based (acting…
Almost 3 years ago
Nice name PeerSpot. Great to form a part of the community.
Almost 3 years ago
Answered a question: What is the difference between IaaS, SaaS, and PaaS?
Make as if you are an IT admin and have to install a CRM app like SalesForce for your users.
In this case, SaaS (software as a service) can be viewed as accessing the application directly through your web browser through purchasing of a subscription from SalesForce. This…
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds NPM?
SolarWinds has recently introduced a change, or rather a payment option to pay on a monthly basis.
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: What tool do you recommend using for VoIP monitoring for a mid-sized enterprise?
I have seen Nagios, PRTG and ManageEngine
These are all appropriate tools. Just adding my own experience as having the opportunity to have worked with all
Nagios , easy to implement, agents easy to install, interface management for alerts: good
PRTG , easy to implement,…
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: What are security features to look out for when choosing a Customer Identity and Access Management solution?
Security starts within the enterprise first with strong security policies that the product should comply to. Examples are centralized administration, passwordless authentication. Two-factor authentication
Also, one question is whether to provide the same level of security…
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: What is the difference between NAS and SAN storage?
The type of usage has first to be taken into consideration
Most work can be done on a NAS as disks have grown faster.
However, high performance DB should be on SAN.
In the longerterm, NAS can suffer as some users have the tendency to put DBs there because of the relative…
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: Which ransomware is the biggest threat in 2020?
Some words about ransomware first
Ransomware has become much more targeted these days, so that ordinary users are less likely to suffer from it.
Also, avoid the free tools as with the degree of sophistication and the way they target companies, most of them will not remove…
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: What is the biggest difference between Cisco SD-WAN and Citrix SD-WAN?
Cisco is a traditional networking play and has successfully transformed from pure hardware to now software defined products.
Many network engineers already use the product and makes a lot of sense for a company with Cisco history to go towards Cisco just like a company…
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: Any advice re Dell PowerMax? We are looking at Unity and PowerMax, and also HPE.
Many insightful answers already provided
I would just add the following based on my experience. With so many employees an located in different places, its important for you to list the issues being encountered with the present setup, in addition of the need to upgrade, of…
Over 4 years ago
Over 4 years ago
Commented on The ability to reliably virtualize desktops and support them. Simple to say, but complicated nonetheless.
While the VMWARE part itself is stable, other common issues with Horizon include users unable to authenticate in the Horizon client & getting errors like " no desktop is available"
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: Is all flash storage SSD?
I have seen a number of replies. Just clarifying.
There are 3 storage Tiers with NVMe, SSD and SAS /NL
SSD is a disk that doesn't have moving parts like SAS and NL
Now, Flash is the implementation of SSD. SSDs are made mostly of flash memory
Over 4 years ago
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: When looking for a work from home solution, which Remote Access solution do you prefer? Why?
My experience guys
(a) For urgent remote trouble-shooting, use TeamViewer, can be set up rapidly but I would avoid it as I have not seen the accountability part ( record of whom has accessed so that when there is some malign act, you as the admin are not held responsible.…
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: What is your evaluation criteria checklist for a DaaS products ?
Here are the specs/details which you should request from your supplier
This is in an Excel file & I just copied and pasted here. Please send me an email or is there some way I can send it?
Item Specification Details
1 Number of users customer to specify, e.g 100…
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: Which is the best virtual learning platform?
If you're looking for just a basic meeting tool, Zoom will do just fine. You can also share your screen as well as choose the option to share presentations ( in your case, its the Digital manual)
Cisco Webex is more for making video calls but some use it for training as…
Over 4 years ago
Citrix, despite evolution of VMWARE view and Microsoft RDS , Citrix Xendesktop available as part of the workspace suite is still now the reference among most IT professionals and should benefit from the work-from-home move as companies, especially utilities and telcos have…
Over 4 years ago
Answered a question: Which is the best storage system for machine learning? Does Pure Storage hold up after two years of usage?
Question 1 : Its not only the storage make which is important but more are the type of disks being used. Now, most companies
because users are so unpredictable go for two tier or three tier storage. Automatic Tiering distributes the loads where the
need is.
Now,…
Over 4 years ago
(a) To avoid language barrier, best is to have email exchanges preceding oral communications/ conf calls. Please make sure that you fill in the fault docket ( TAC Excel form) providing all necessary info
(b) As for problems with the storage controller, you can do regular…
Over 4 years ago
(a)Makes sense to have the 6400 and 6800 is as flash in our private cloud and the slower 5400's as backup , but please make sure that you have an offsite copy as well, both for compliance and peace of mind
(b)Also, when implementing those higher Tiers (Tier 1 : NVME),…
Over 4 years ago
Great to hear that you are using HP blade and Huawei Oceanstor and all being managed by VMWARE. We used it before and it works
As for the storage, afterwards, have a look at the Dedup features , it will help you to save on disk space
Also, you may want to do a quarterly or…
Almost 5 years ago
Contributed a review of Huawei OceanStor: Good management and technical support, but it is not too cheap also.
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About 2 years ago
A10 Networks Lightning ADC
Almost 5 years ago
Huawei OceanStor
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Almost 3 years ago
Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP)
Almost 3 years ago
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
Over 4 years ago
Network Monitoring Software
Over 4 years ago
Network Monitoring Software
Over 4 years ago
Access Management
Over 4 years ago
WAN Optimization
Over 4 years ago
Remote Access
Over 4 years ago
Desktop as a Service (DaaS)
Over 4 years ago
All-Flash Storage
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Almost 3 years ago
Over 4 years ago
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)
Over 4 years ago
Application Virtualization
Over 4 years ago
All-Flash Storage
Interesting Projects and Accomplishments
Almost 5 years ago