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The 3 Essential Elements of Cyber-Resilient Infrastructure

We live in a world where cyberattacks are inevitable, and this ‘not if, but when’ thinking is now directly affecting IT spend and prioritization. I have met with several IT professionals who have told me that their security budget, which previously was repeatedly rejected, now is a top priority for their senior leadership teams. I […]

Jun 14, 2022

Siamak Nazari

Why is data storage still a problem that needs to be solved in 2022?

Data storage is a burden that has plagued companies since its inception. How do I provision it, monitor it, make it highly available, protect it, make it performant, optimize it (dedupe & compression) and a host of other things? Additionally, how do I ensure others on my team or those less skilled can set up […]

Jun 02, 2022

Siamak Nazari

MSP's: How to actually recover your customer from ransomware

Security and ransomware are the hot topics for MSPs and their customers so it’s a no brainer that most MSPs have some sort of managed security offering in their services portfolio. The challenge, however, is that most security and ransomware solutions typically focus on discovery, prevention, and avoidance with the assumption that if enough money […]

May 26, 2022

Stuart Oliver

Attending Lenovo Accelerate? Learn how to get near-instant ransomware recovery

Attending Lenovo Accelerate next week? Read on to learn about where to find us at the show, and how we are able to help companies like yours recover from ransomware near-instantly in the event of an attack. what is nebulon smartInfrastructure? Nebulon smartInfrastructure brings the cloud experience to on-premises infrastructure by turning your Lenovo server […]

May 10, 2022

Pooja Desai-Singh

Ransomware: Why it’s inevitable and how to speed up recovery

A few years ago, the term ransomware was not something I would hear about regularly. Lately, however, I hear about it all the time. Naturally, my curiosity has made me dive a lot deeper into the subject. A nagging question that has remained on my mind is: How is it possible that an IT organization […]

Mar 29, 2022

Tobias Flitsch

Two Critical Strategies for Enterprise Data Encryption

Security Magazine recently published an article written by our CEO, Siamak Nazari, where he discusses the growing demand of data security and regulatory compliance across various industries and countries. There are new attacks happening every day and he reviews two ways that enterprise data centers can protect themselves from such attacks: Enterprise data encryption should […]

Mar 11, 2022

Pooja Desai-Singh

Automating the complexity out of your IT infrastructure

The mantra for Red Hat Ansible is this: Complexity kills productivity. We here at Nebulon couldn’t agree more. Ansible has made it possible for technology vendors to leapfrog their automation initiatives. But a technology vendor announcing it has developed an Ansible collection is like a movie theater saying it sells popcorn –everyone is doing it, […]

Feb 28, 2022

Aaron Patten

Three major “table stake” solutions

In the cloud and hosting provider world it has always been tough to gain and maintain a competitive advantage and it’s even more complicated today, in an era of massive public cloud providers with even more massive marketing budgets that seemingly cover every vertical and every application type. Long gone are the days where service […]

Feb 07, 2022

Stuart Oliver

Alive and well at the smartEdge with 2-node clusters

Computing at the edge shifts a large portion of data processing from centralized systems to the remote edge of the network, closer to a device or system that requires access to data quickly. And while the first inclination might be to move workloads such as this to the cloud, there are still many valid reasons […]

Dec 13, 2021

Jeff Feierfeil

3 ways to modernize your VMware deployment

VMware has arguably done more to change how Data Center infrastructure is architected and built than any other company over the past 10-15 years. Today, most IT infrastructure leaders use VMware products somewhere within their organization. A large proportion of that VMware infrastructure still runs on traditional 3-tier architectures or Converged infrastructure designs such as […]

Dec 07, 2021

John Rollason

A common API across public and private cloud deployments with smartInfrastructure

Meet Inca Cloud Inca Cloud is all about cloud-powered integration. The company focuses on helping enterprise customers move from an appliance-based to an application-based world. Continually expanding its portfolio, UK-based Service Provider, Inca Cloud just launched a new Inca Cloud WSO cloud service. It’s built for hosted and private cloud deployments—and it provides a multi-cloud solution that’s […]

Nov 16, 2021

Pooja Desai-Singh

Service Providers: How to grow top line revenue and reduce customer churn

As anyone who has worked closely with Service Providers would know, they are always under constant pressure to grow revenue by winning new customer applications, whilst simultaneously reducing service delivery costs and increasing customer satisfaction. Never easy! In recent years, most Service Providers have already realized that sticking with traditional 3-tier infrastructure architectures will leave […]

Nov 03, 2021

John Rollason

Behind Every Great Management Console is Another Management Console

The early days of on-premises management was comprised primarily of per device element managers. However, chasing problems from machine to machine proved to not only be maddening but grossly inefficient. And before you knew it, many isolated issues quickly piled up, throwing your plans for the day out of the window while you confronted the […]

Oct 21, 2021

Jeff Feierfeil

Chasing Rainbows in the Cloud

We all know the impossibility of reaching the rainbow, at whose foot a pot of gold is said to be buried. For those who want some or all their infrastructure to remain on-premises, seeking a cloud-like experience can be that pot of gold. After a successful acquisition by a much larger incumbent enterprise IT company, […]

Sep 29, 2021

Jeff Feierfeil

What is Cloud Repatriation? (and how it will affect the future of Hybrid Cloud)

If you search any number of articles discussing cloud trends, they will claim what we’ve all been repeatedly told: everything is moving to the cloud. But is that actually the case? The reality is that not all applications are actually suitable in public cloud environments and this could be for any number of reasons. In […]

Sep 20, 2021

Siamak Nazari

The next (smart) step for resellers looking for growth in an over-saturated market

We have recently met with a number of channel partners to better understand their business and where they were seeing challenges in their ability to grow revenue. Some of what they said was not a big surprise, but there was one piece that really stood out. For most, the need to compete in an over-saturated […]

Sep 08, 2021

Craig Nunes

Tesla and Your Phone Provide Infrastructure Management as-a-Service

A few days ago, I was chatting with my colleague about cars. He spent most of the conversation bragging about how his Tesla gained greater range and became faster overnight through an automatic software update. While not all of us can share this experience with our cars and still need to drive to a dealer […]

Jul 08, 2021

Tobias Flitsch

The Sessions You Don’t Want to Miss at HPE Discover

HPE Discover is upon us and we’re excited to share where you can learn more about Nebulon smartInfrastructure at HPE Discover! what is smartInfrastructure? It’s a way to bring the cloud experience on-prem Nebulon smartInfrastructure is HPE ProLiant server-embedded, infrastructure software delivered as-a-service, which offers the benefits of the public cloud on-premises, from core to edge […]

Jun 16, 2021

Pooja Desai-Singh

what is a self-service infrastructure?
(and what can it do for you)

We are seeing more and more companies introduce new products which help bring cloud management and simplicity to on-premises infrastructure. One key feature that must be available is the ability for application owners and DevOps teams to self-provision their own infrastructure to easily deploy new applications. This sounds great in theory, but what does it […]

May 12, 2021

Tobias Flitsch

UK Service Provider Details Successful Edge Deployment

While there is a big shift to move data to the cloud, IoT & 5G trends are driving an increased need to process data closer to the data source. So, it should come as no surprise that the Edge Computing market (valued at $1.75 billion in 2019) is expected to reach a value of $8.3 […]

May 06, 2021

Phil Hooker

The benefits of smartInfrastructure

In a previous blog, I talked about the challenges that organizations face in trying to deliver a public cloud experience for on-premises application infrastructure, and lessons learned from the smart infrastructure all around us in the consumer market. I also explained in that blog that we deliver infrastructure software as-a-service from a cloud-based control plane, […]

Apr 21, 2021

Craig Nunes

What is nebulon smartInfrastructure?

The challenge: matching the public cloud experience on-premises Many enterprises today have a cloud-first strategy, fueled by their need to improve operational simplicity in a couple key areas. First, ‘self-service’ provisioning ease so application owners get the infrastructure they need, the way they need it, and when they need it. Second, infrastructure management behind-the-scenes, handled […]

Apr 19, 2021

Craig Nunes

Top Webinar FAQs: bringing the cloud experience on-prem

We recently sat with our friends from Comport as part of a joint webinar to discuss the current market trends and how they are driving an increased demand for bringing the cloud-experience on-prem. It spurred some great conversations and questions from our audience, which we have cherry picked and listed below. What is smartInfrastructure? smartInfrastructure is […]

Mar 04, 2021

Brian Kelly

We’re Livin’ on the Micro Data Center Edge

Who would have ever thought that we would literally be able to order car service and the car would pull up with NO DRIVER!?! Self-driving cars are a real thing! Imagine getting in a car, which uses cloud-only compute for autonomous driving, strapping in your seat belt, and rolling towards your destination…now, the connection to […]

Feb 24, 2021

Clint Wyckoff

The 4 BIG benefits a cloud-managed (server-based storage) infrastructure can bring to your on-premises data

We’ve been touting the benefits of a cloud-managed infrastructure for some time now. You might understand how it works but why does it really matter and what sets one solution apart from another? Some vendors and solutions may be able to bring a benefit here or there like automation or fleet management, but in a […]

Feb 18, 2021

Pooja Desai-Singh

Kubernetes Pro Tips: Speed Up Containerized App Delivery

It’s no secret the impact that containers are having on the enterprise. In fact, the global application container market is expected to reach 8.2 billion USD by 2025. Wrangling all those containers requires an orchestration layer and leading the charge, of course, is Kubernetes. Assuming you are part of a growing group of enterprises looking […]

Feb 11, 2021

Aaron Patten

Announcing the Nebulon #nebnerd Community!

The passionate sharing of knowledge, best practices, and experiences with like-minded individuals, collaboration, networking, loving what you do and always being willing to help others! These are all characteristics of folks who actively participate in the IT Community. In my professional career the IT Community – also known as the #vCommunity – has played an […]

Feb 02, 2021

Clint Wyckoff

2021 Predictions: The Cloud Experience Comes to App Data On-Prem

We have seen a significant shift in enterprise IT over the last year–specifically as it relates to application data and how it is provisioned, stored, processed, and managed. But this shift is not only as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. IT Organizations appreciate the benefits of the cloud experience–applications up and running quickly while […]

Jan 21, 2021

Craig Nunes

SPUs, SmartNICs, DPUs: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

There has been a lot of buzz recently around offload engines, specifically DPUs, and it’s not surprising. Not only are we seeing multiple companies jumping on the bandwagon, including VMware with their latest Project Monterey announcement, but this buzz is also validation that the industry is shifting towards a less-restrictive, server-based approach to storage and […]

Jan 13, 2021

Tobias Flitsch

Your Supermicro with smartInfrastructure FAQs, Answered

Recently Nebulon and Supermicro hosted a joint webinar where Nebulon CEO, Siamak Nazari, and Eric Sindelar, GM of Operations & Advanced Technology Development at Supermicro discussed why smartInfrastructure paired with Supermicro Ultra Servers is an optimal enterprise solution. During the discussion, we received some great questions and this blog post will highlight a few of […]

Dec 09, 2020

Clint Wyckoff

7 Reasons you Should Consider Supermicro with smartInfrastructure

Back in June, we announced a formal partnership with Supermicro and we are super excited to be able to talk about the joint solution in more detail. Supermicro is well-known as a leader in high-performance, high-efficiency server technology innovation. For IT organizations deploying a combination of Supermicro’s Ultra servers and enterprise-class shared storage, they have […]

Nov 04, 2020

Craig Nunes

Hyper-Converged or Hyper-Restrictive? smartInfrastructure is a Better Alternative

Prior to joining Nebulon, I had been pretty well-versed in server-based storage solutions. I knew they had the potential to address key customer issues, but was also well aware that existing solutions like Hyper-Converged Infrastructure had failed to deliver. So, at the time I joined Nebulon, I was uncertain how this new technology from former […]

Oct 08, 2020

Tobias Flitsch

Simplify Your VMware Deployment Day 1 to Day n with a Self-Service Infrastructure

I’m a fan of things that make my life simpler. Just to pick on smart phones, you’ve heard the saying “There’s an app for that” and it’s true. Need to know the weather for tomorrow’s soccer practice? Ask your smart phone assistant. Want a pizza? No problem. Need a ride? Got you covered. Like many […]

Sep 29, 2020

Aaron Patten

Why Your On-Prem Infrastructure Should be Cloud-Managed

On-prem storage array management has evolved significantly over the past two decades. However, even new administrative tools and software solutions have failed to make storage arrays easy and simple to manage. This is due to one primary reason: the architecture of storage software. The traditional approach to storage software combines both the I/O path (the […]

Sep 17, 2020

Michael Heyeck

Hyper-converged or Hyper-restrictive?
The 7 Ways HCI Has Failed to Deliver

As someone who has been directly involved with building and selling software-defined storage and Hyper-converged Infrastructure solutions in a previous life, I have seen first-hand the benefits that a server-based storage solution can bring. It is because of this that I am convinced that server-based storage has the potential to address key customer concerns centered […]

Sep 10, 2020

Tobias Flitsch

Leveraging the Nebulon Cloud to Drive the smartInfrastructure Customer Support Model

It takes months to find a customer…seconds to lose one. -Vince Lombardi Customer satisfaction has been a long-time passion of mine. With over 25 years of experience in support, I’m pretty well-tuned to the various support models that tech company’s employ. Regardless of the customer, industry, model, or execution, my number one goal […]

Sep 03, 2020

Frank Lucero

Introduction to the Nebulon CSI Driver for Kubernetes

Fast, Easy Cloud-Managed, On-Premises, Self-Service Infrastructure for the Enterprise Cloud As organizations and developers work to evolve legacy applications away from monolithic structures, the Kubernetes container orchestration system is playing an increasingly important role in these modernization efforts. By implementing Kubernetes, the work of technical teams is greatly simplified by automating numerous processes for application […]

Aug 17, 2020

Clint Wyckoff

Making our inaugural appearance at Storage Field Day 20!

Storage Field Day 20 is approaching fast! On August 6th, 2020 at 10 AM – 12PM PST Nebulon is poised to participate in our first Storage (Tech) Field Day! Our CEO, Siamak Nazari and COO, Craig Nunes will provide the delegates and those watching online an overview of the company and our vision. Next up […]

Jul 30, 2020

Clint Wyckoff

How COVID-19 is Affecting IT Orgs (and What You Can do to Adjust)

Let’s get the bad news out of the way first. Unsurprisingly, IT Organizations are stressed. Why? The same challenges that have plagued enterprises long before the spread of COVID-19 (did someone say cost and difficult to automate?) are the same ones that are making the adjustment to a post-COVID business model much more stressful. This […]

Jul 28, 2020

Pooja Desai-Singh

Jumping Aboard the Nebulon Rocketship

Today I am proud and excited to share that I have joined Nebulon as a Principle Technical Marketing Engineer reporting to Chief Operating Officer, Craig Nunes. You may have heard in the news that recently Nebulon arose from Silicon Valley stealth world as Cloud-Defined Storage (CDS). I have known Craig for some time now and […]

Jul 23, 2020

Clint Wyckoff

Introducing smartInfrastructure: A Letter From Our CEO

Friends, Colleagues & Enterprise Customers, 18 months ago we set out to create a solution that would radically change the IT industry and I’m happy to announce that the day has come to officially introduce Cloud-Defined Storage to the world. This announcement comes as no accident. The genesis of the idea of cloud-defined storage was […]

Jun 23, 2020

Siamak Nazari

Adapt and Push Through—Advice for App and Infra Owners During Unpredictable Times

I have two daughters. I raised them more or less how I was raised. One lesson I preached as a young dad (that will get an eye roll from both my kids) is ‘when a setback or adversity strikes, adapt and push through.’ This is a lesson I now turn back on myself both personally […]

Mar 26, 2020

Craig Nunes

Storage Is Still the Weakest Link for IT Admins: A Former CTO’s Perspective

Depending on who you talk to, IT administrators can face any number of challenges as it relates to their on-premises data storage environment. Most, however, boil down to these three basics: Scale, Management, and Cost. But as most know, these problems aren’t new. They are a set of issues that reared their ugly head throughout […]

Feb 19, 2020

Martin Cooper

First To-Do in 2020? Expand Operations

2019 was a big year for Nebulon and 2020 is off to a great start with our latest super exciting news. For starters, we have a new UK-based subsidiary, Nebulon Ltd., which is home to our Belfast-based development center and London-based EMEA sales headquarters. We also established an international partnership with the Northern Ireland government […]

Jan 22, 2020

Craig Nunes

6 things every app owner should demand from their data storage

It’s no secret. Application developers are drawn to the agility, scalability and versatility of public cloud services as they are instantly instantiated, scaled, and updated. There is no wait for IT service tickets to be processed and DevOps has precise control over IT infrastructure. There’s only the worry about the bill at the end of […]

Dec 04, 2019

Tobias Flitsch

Why We Started Nebulon: The Industry Had Been Ready, And Now So Are We

There’s been a lot of speculation around what we’re doing at Nebulon…some spot on and some not so much. While we’re not ready to say just yet, I can absolutely tell you why we decided to start the company because in our case, the ‘why’ is just as important as the ‘what’. The best way […]

Dec 03, 2019

Siamak Nazari

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