The Arraya Blog

While the rest of us were at the beach or enjoying a picnic over the long holiday weekend, a band of unsavory hackers were hard at work flooding the Internet with a wealth of stolen data. On Sunday, a massive collection of personal photos alleged to have been swiped from the iCloud accounts of a […]

This summer hasn’t even ended yet but it’s not too early to start thinking about the next one considering that’s when Microsoft’s extended support for Windows Server 2003 runs out. Come July 14, 2015 all versions of Windows Server 2003 will officially reach their end-of-life. Once that date hits, the updates and security patches from […]

TechEd 2014 was a week full of announcements in the Azure platform. One might think of this as a major release – Azure 3.0? Below are some key technologies and announcements that came out of Houston last month. Azure ExpressRoute Enables organizations to create private connections into Microsoft cloud datacenters from on-premises or co-located infrastructures. […]

EMC World 2014, EMC Corporation’s annual conference, was held once again in Las Vegas during the week of May 5. It served as a fantastic opportunity for EMC to share their latest technical and business offerings with EMC customers, business partners and IT professionals. In case you were unable to attend or follow along virtually, […]

As many people have now heard, support for Windows XP of Office 2003 will end on (a quickly approaching) April 8th. There will be no more security updates or technical support for the Windows XP operating system, making it very important for customers to migrate to a modern operating system such as Windows 8.1. Customers […]

I was at VMware Partner Exchange last week and as usual there were several announcements that continue to shape VMware’s vision of a “New Reality”. It was also a good chance to catch up with the various teams and hear more about the direction for products like VSAN, as well as their Cloud and End […]

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 […]