VLCM IT Industry News

This is the second blog article covering the IT Connection event that took place earlier this month. We had so many vendors and such a great experience we couldn’t cover it with just one article! This article covers the following companies that participated in the breakout sessions: Beau Sorenson with First Choice Home Health and Hospice, Kevan Paul with Fortinet, Chad Haskell with Barracuda, and a review of the very popular speed networking session.

VLCM IT Connection was an incredible follow up event to VLCM IT Exchange. Connection's deeper focus on educating attendees was achieved through more breakout sessions and an interactive customer-to-vendor speed networking event. For those who couldn't attend the event, below we've provided a recap of the following IT Connection breakout session topics: Matt Mills's How to Advance Your Career through Business Networking with AITP, Travis Krischke's Track – Manage – Secure with Absolute Software, Jim Beggans' HP Converged Storage: A Vision for Storage Simplicity with HP, Richard Murray's Bringing Clarity to the Cloud of Carrier Sales, Ashley Dreier's Project Prioritization and Setting Customer Development Expectations You Can Meet with HealthEquity, and Darren Wesemann and Jeff Philips' Big Data at UofU with the University of Utah.

This is the fourth and final post in the series covering the fantastic VLCM IT Exchange. You can find the previous blog articles through the links provided here: VMware-Barracuda-HP, WesternDigital-LANDESK-Shoretel, Seagate-Storagecraft-VeloCloud. This last article covers the presentations that happened in Salon J and the Cottonwood Room of the downtown Marriott in Salt Lake City. This time VLCM had two of its veteran sales staff, Trent Eckman & Nathan Jones, covering the presentations. The partners & VLCM customers that presented in those rooms were – David Clark of Kirton McConkie, Rusty Jensen with inContact & Carrier Sales, Ashley Dreier from Heath Equity, and Beau Sorenson of First Choice Home Health.

Here is the third part in the series covering the amazing VLCM IT Exchange. This fun-size piece of information is covering the sessions that happened in Salon I, at the downtown Marriott in Salt Lake City. I had the honor of being the VLCM representative who covered the presentations in the salon, and had the opportunity to work with our partners – Matt Seeley with Seagate, Cliff Fano of Storagecraft, and Bob Ashmore presented for VeloCloud.

Continuing on from the first part of the series based on the noteworthy VLCM IT Exchange, we offer another bite size piece of information from the event. In this edition we cover the sessions that happened in Salon H of the downtown Marriott in Salt Lake City. Elizabeth Torres was the VLCM representative who covered the presentations in that room, and had the opportunity to work with our partners -  Jeanie James of Western Digital, Chris Rawlings of LANDesk, and David Koerner with Shoretel.

VLCM IT Exchange was one of the most notable events VLCM has ever delivered to its customers to bring them information, connections and knowledge. One of the dynamic pieces of the event was the engaging and informational breakout sessions. Though there were thirteen sessions to choose from, there were only three opportunities to attend the ones you were interested in. Thanks to great volunteers and phenomenal presenters, we have been able to capture a bite size piece of the breakouts to share with everyone. The first series of sessions happened in Salon G of the downtown Marriott in Salt Lake City. Josh Allen was the VLCM representative who covered the presentations in that room, and had the opportunity to work with our partners- Brian Clark of VMware, Michael Ferguson representing Barracuda, and Jason Patterson from HP.

A number of IT professionals joined us for an event with HP and VMware to discuss the fundamentals of storage system architecture and the key topics of VMworld 2014. If you happened to have missed the event or are curious on what was discussed, read the presentation overview and download the slides, below, to use as a reference.

System Hardware Architecture Matters

Traditional Modular Storage has always been cost efficient but works with an active-passive, dual-controller design that is limited in scalability and resiliency. Traditional Monolithic Storage is scalable, resilient and has an active-active design but is costly to any organization. These traditional storage plays might not meet multi-tenant requirements efficiently.

HP 3PAR Architecture is cost-effective, scalable, resilient, meshed, and has an active-active architecture. This solution meets cloud-computing requirements for efficiency, multi-tenancy and autonomic management. The fail-over is almost instantaneous because no single controller owns a LUN individually. All nodes have access to all resources, so each LUN is managed through all controllers.