Kurt Hildebrand

Kurt has over 20 years of experience in storage, networking, virtualization, clustering, disaster recovery, and business consulting. He holds several professional certifications, including Citrix Certified Enterprise Administrator (CCEA), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), Certified Novell Engineer (CNE), EMC Certified Integration Engineer (EMCIE), Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), VMware Certified Professional (VCP). In his free time, Kurt enjoys strategy games, the outdoors, theater, and live music.

Addressing Virtualization Challenges with SDDC

March 22, 2017 | Kurt Hildebrand

The rise of virtualization has shifted focus and control away from physical hardware, initially for servers, and eventually for storage and networking. A study by MarketsandMarkets predicts that the Software…

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The Logic of Logic Layer

February 17, 2017 | Kurt Hildebrand

The software-defined data center (SDDC) is increasingly considered to be the next step in the evolution of virtualization and cloud computing. It typically consists of three core components: network virtualization,…

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The Virtues of Virtualizing with SDDC

February 13, 2017 | Kurt Hildebrand

The software-defined data center (SDDC) is emerging as a means of simplifying and cost-reducing enterprise computing – as well as deploying software-defined appliances that leverage existing technologies to enable a…

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The Evolution of Desktop Virtualization

February 9, 2017 | Kurt Hildebrand

Desktop virtualization, also known as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), as a technology born out of the hypervisor revolution of the past 10–15 years, has moved from cutting edge to mainstream,…

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DR/BC: Protecting What’s Important

December 6, 2016 | Kurt Hildebrand

For a business, disasters come in all shapes and sizes: a downed server, power outage, flood, fire, and even a plague of frogs. But while all of these have varied…

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