As part of its strategic consulting and managed services practice, AHEAD Inc. is often called in to help solve interoperability and performance issues caused by a complicated tangle of storage, server and virtualization solutions. In partnership with Dell Technologies Inc., AHEAD relies on storage cost efficiency solutions, such as PowerStore, to help its clients untie the IT knot.
“We were a long-time partner with Dell, and I got my first exposure to PowerStore in 2019 when we were doing the beta testing,” said Jonathan Kowall(pictured, center), director of specialist solutions engineers at AHEAD, during an interview with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. “The daddy of PowerStore comes from XtremIO, which we tested and we’re big fans of. What XtremIO figured out and brought to the market was how to do these inline data reduction techniques, do them efficiently and do them extremely well. The more reduction you get, the faster the system can run, …