For over 20 years, Nexsan has built a reputation for producing highly reliable, cost-effective storage solutions designed to serve specific use cases and business demands. What’s not been so cost-effective? Their support. Fortunately, that ends now. Coming in 2021, Riverstone Technology will be offering comprehensive third party maintenance and support for Nexsan storage equipment starting with the Pure Storage FlashArray//m …
In this two-week wrap-up post, we summarize Riverstone’s blog content from January 11th to January 22nd. This includes an F5 Networks EoTS announcement, 6 reasons to partner with Riverstone over your OEM, ITAD best practices, a discussion of third-party Pure Storage hardware support, and finally Riverstone’s top 10 SAN products and vendors. F5 Networks BIG-IP Products Reaching EoTS in January: …
Selecting the best data storage system for your organizational needs not only requires very careful planning, but also thorough comparison-shopping considering SANs do not come cheap. IT decision-makers must consider a wide range of factors, from cost, scalability, reliability, and performance to availability, management, simplicity, and data protection. To help narrow down your search, here are ten premium SAN products …
Pure Storage develops flash-based storage for data centers using consumer-grade solid state drives. Their solutions are known for being always-on, always fast, and always secure. It’s why Pure Storage was recently positioned by Gartner as a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Primary Storage Arrays. But affordable maintenance for Pure Storage arrays has been severely lacking in the industry. …
At Riverstone, our mission is to keep customers’ data center equipment in service and operating efficiently for as long as possible. It’s why we exist. And in many cases, we’re able to successfully do so for 5 – 10 years beyond hardwares’ EOSL. But at the end of the day, each piece of equipment within your environment does have an …
When the warranty is set to expire on your data center equipment, it’s important to remember you do have options for data center maintenance and support beyond the original equipment manufacturer. But why would one willingly choose a third-party provider over direct-OEM services? Here are 6 reasons companies continually turn to our team at Riverstone in lieu of the manufacturer: Operational Excellence …
This is your reminder that the BIG-IP 11000/11050 FIPS Platforms and SSD Options from F5 Networks reached EoTS on January 1st, 2021. The models that are now officially out of service include: BIG-IP 11000-FIPS – 1/01/2021 BIG-IP 11050-FIPS – 1/01/2021 BIG-IP 1.2 TB SSD Dual Tray (11000 Platform) – 1/01/2021 BIG-IP 2.4 TB SSD Dual Tray (11000 Platform) – 1/01/2021 …
It’s a new year on the Riverstone Technology company blog, and we’re so excited about all the content we have planned for our readers! To kick it off, we began with data center trends to expect in 2021, third party maintenance acronyms you should know, and finally an explanation of how our global network of engineers works. Continue reading for …
At Riverstone Technology, our global network of certified engineers allows us to provide swift and dependable data center service no matter your location worldwide. We’re big enough to support infrastructure on just about every continent, but also agile and responsive enough to offer the dedicated care of a local provider. Here’s the difference it makes: A Global Network of Certified, Expert-Level …
Like many industries, third party maintenance has its own set of terms and jargon that are well-understood among IT professionals. They aren’t, however, always easily understood among our clients! And almost all of them tend to be in the form of confusing acronyms. Riverstone offers this acronyms glossary to serve as a reference for our customers, or simply blog readers, …
