Data is growing faster than ever before and storage capabilities are struggling to keep up with this exponential growth. Organizational leaders are reassessing their data storage approaches and strategies, fearing that data growth may cause storage issues that will stall digital transformation initiatives. They're also worried that storage costs will rise dramatically as capacity requirements [...]

In our semi-final round the remaining five teams presented their business case for their proposed AI solution. The five teams were comprised of 2 from Southern Methodist University and 3 from University of Texas-Dallas. The teams were judged on the following criteria: Would the solution automate the email process? Does the solution bring added value [...]

For the last nine years, I have been discussing storage management with clients. One lesson I've learned from these conversations is that each storage manufacturer has adequate tools to manage their storage. What data center, however, has only one storage vendor? The tools that storage vendors supply with their storage systems provide necessary information like [...]

This past Friday, we kicked off our First Annual Visual Storage Intelligence AI Hackathon. Seven teams comprised of Southern Methodist University and University of Texas-Dallas students joined us at Venture X, in Dallas, Texas. The teams will be competing to deliver automated status reports using AI and natural language processing. On Friday, the teams were briefed [...]

On Thursday, February 6, 2020 we held a webinar with Visual Storage Intelligence CTO, Van Symons. In this webinar he discusses how to cut your NetApp bill in half. NetApp arrays offer a high degree of configuration flexibility, but with this flexibility comes certain considerations to ensure you are getting the most out of your [...]

As 2020 starts, ransomware is one of the top threats facing organizations. An organization is significantly more likely to suffer a ransomware attack than the disasters they typically plan for like earthquakes, hurricanes, fires, and floods. Ransomware, unlike traditional disasters, can impact any organization, any place, and at any time. Also, unlike conventional disasters, ransomware [...]