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.

Flash Arrays or Spinning Disks: Why Not Both?

January 16, 2015 | Kurt Hildebrand

Both flash and traditional spinning disk drives have to perform the same job. So what’s the difference, and why would you choose one over the other as you migrate to…

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Flash Storage FAQ

January 8, 2015 | Kurt Hildebrand

Traditional forms of data storage are proving increasingly inadequate as data grow at exponential rates and enterprises seek to mine digital information in real-time to gain competitive and operational benefits….

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Take Business Continuity to the Cloud

January 6, 2015 | Kurt Hildebrand

Modern IT departments are under constant pressure to implement new technologies that enable the business while simultaneously keeping critical data, applications and processes secure and the network running 24 x…

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The Business Case for Storage Optimization

December 31, 2014 | Kurt Hildebrand

The explosion of data triggered by the mobile and social media revolutions have created extraordinary opportunities for enterprises to collect and analyze digital information. Naturally, enterprises also need ways to…

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When It Comes to Data, Planning Is Everything

December 26, 2014 | Kurt Hildebrand

A recent article in PC Magazine reported that according to the National Archives & Records Administration, 93% of companies that lost their data center for 10 or more days due…

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