The Arraya Blog

So far, so good out here in Vegas for VMware’s Partner Exchange. Here is some of the insight I’ve gained thus far… While a lot of the sessions we’ve attended include NDA materials regarding future product releases that we can’t discuss publicly, the training boot camps have given me the ability to add some significant […]

The Office suite of products is one of, if not the most, widely used document creation and communication platforms on the desktop in the world. In fact, during the first year of availability Office 2010 sold more than 100 million copies. Over 750 million users have a version of the Office suite in use on […]

What is EMC Avamar? Those of you who wrestle with backups on a regular basis have probably heard of EMC Avamar. If you’re familiar with Avamar, then you already know it is a complete deduplication backup system, with integrated backup and recovery software and purpose-built backup appliance. You also know Avamar is the purpose-built backup […]

As IT pros and data center owners, we’ve been successfully building our own private clouds for some time. However, the question remains… who should be building our private clouds? Should we retain the roles of architect, tester, quality control, integrator, and support? Should we look to our vendors to provide us with private cloud “blue prints”, or […]

Today’s global businesses are challenged with juggling communications between employees, customers, and business partners. With remote employees becoming more and more popular it is vital to make sure your team is still able to efficiently collaborate, connect with clients and/or access your network. Companies are turning to communication technologies to improve the way employees connect, […]

It’s hard to believe VMworld was already two weeks ago. As always, the event was loaded with opportunities to meet new people, learn something, meet up with old acquaintances, and catch a little Bon Jovi. It was hard to escape the focus on cloud computing with all of the recent acquisitions and the release of […]

By outsourcing the management of your IT network, you can refocus your efforts on your core business while you let a professional team monitor, patch, upgrade, and support your network and desktop infrastructure. This proactive maintenance approach effectively mitigates network problems, often leading to fewer and less severe incidents. We have come up with our […]

We’re very pleased to welcome you to our first of many Arraya blog posts. We’ll be taking our blog in a number of different directions, all with the goal of providing valuable information, insights, ideas, and solutions related to application development, managed services, IT strategy, data center, and network infrastructure.