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.

Hyperconverged Infrastructure Meets the Storage Monolith

June 21, 2016 | Kurt Hildebrand

Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is emerging as a way to improve the delivery speed and efficiency for IT services by overcoming bottlenecks in how IT resources are deployed. Hyperconverged infrastructure accomplishes…

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Disaster Recovery in a Virtual World

June 16, 2016 | Kurt Hildebrand

Business is in the process of going digital, and while that has profound implications for the entire organization – technology, processes and people – it is particularly relevant to data…

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Manage Cloud Growth with Converged Infrastructure

June 1, 2016 | Kurt Hildebrand

Cloud computing has revolutionized the way organizations design, manage, and operate their data centers. The revolution has been swift, disruptive, and sweeping. And it’s brought about unprecedented growth across almost…

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Data Center by the Numbers

March 17, 2016 | Kurt Hildebrand

Not long ago, TechPulse conducted a poll on Converged Data Center Trends in real-world IT organizations. I thought that some of the responses were extremely interesting and shed some light…

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The Road to Hyper-Convergence

November 6, 2015 | Kurt Hildebrand

Server assessments are an essential step on the road to migrating to a hyper-converged data center infrastructure. Understanding how you are utilizing your existing resources is critical for capacity planning…

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