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Greg LaBrie

Greg LaBrie has more than 20 years of network architecture and engineering experience designing networks that exceed technical requirements, improve operational proficiency and reduce total costs of ownership. Greg holds a number of technical certifications for HPE, Cisco, Fortinet, and much more.

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The Basics of Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI)

By Greg LaBrie | Jul 11, 2019

Over the past decade, drastic changes have taken place within the data center. Technological advances and innovative new products have revolutionized the way data centers operate. Virtualization is now a vital part of the modern software-defined data center (SDDC). While virtualization is enormously beneficial, it comes with a new set of challenges. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) resolves many of the efficiency, security, and scalability issues facing today's data centers.

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WEI StepsUP: Strong Turnout For Annual Family Barbecue And Care Package Event

By Greg LaBrie | Jul 02, 2019

WEI recognizes that community service is a vital part of being a successful business and encourages employees to participate in volunteerism. On June 12, WEI hosted its annual “Thank Our Military” barbecue in partnership with the P ease Greeters. WEI employees and their families were welcomed for an afternoon of fun community service featuring delicious BBQ food, creating handmade greeting cards, and assembling care packages for servicemen and servicewomen.

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Wendy Pfeiffer, CIO of Nutanix & Champion Of Women In Tech

By Greg LaBrie | Jun 25, 2019

Wendy Pfeiffer routinely lands on lists of “The Most Powerful Women in Tech,” and is currently the Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Nutanix, where she leads the global Information Technology team and functions that support the company’s business operations and employees.

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Boost Performance And Security With An SD-WAN Solution

By Greg LaBrie | Jun 20, 2019

Keeping up with IT innovation is a never-ending race, with the finish line constantly being pushed further and further ahead. The majority of recent exciting technologies have centered on transforming the data center into a flexible environment to provide limitless agility to the enterprise. While many focus on a data center-centric approach to digital transformation, optimizing the wide area network (WAN) may be the better method.

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Protecting Your Data in an All-Flash World

By Greg LaBrie | May 30, 2019

Companies worldwide are modernizing their data centers with efficient, all-flash storage arrays. All-flash storage solutions may offer different features, but they all provide better performance, scalability, and capacity over legacy storage solutions. They are more affordable than their traditional storage equivalents, making upgrading cost effective. With all-flash arrays, organizations can consolidate data and simplify their data management processes.

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How Edge Computing is Reshaping the Value of Data and IoT Within the Enterprise

By Greg LaBrie | May 23, 2019

The rise of cloud technology enabled organizations to shift computing-power and data storage from private data centers to public cloud environments. The transition to the cloud facilitated vast amounts of data to be accumulated and manipulated in a centralized way; however, widespread use of the Internet of Things (IoT) has created new data processing requirements. It does not make sense to centralize massive amounts of raw data gathered by IoT sensors, so edge computing seeks to fill this need by decentralizing and distributing computing resources.

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Maximize Data Center Security With Fortinet and VMware

By Greg LaBrie | May 14, 2019

As enterprises continue to invest in virtualization, keeping a data center – and the data and applications they store – secure is the cornerstone of success. There are two security concerns that are quickly becoming the most prominent, and Fortinet has answers to them both.

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Strong Performers Watch for a Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem

By Greg LaBrie | May 09, 2019

Enterprises who want to reliably prevent the exfiltration of sensitive data and improve their ability to defend against modern cyberthreats may want to consider a Zero Trust architecture. Introduced by analyst firm Forrester, Zero Trust is an alternative architecture for IT security.

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WEI Masters VMware Services Competency in Data center Virtualization, Desktop, and Mobility

By Greg LaBrie | May 07, 2019

WEI is committed to helping organizations accelerate their digital transformations by leveraging their validated services delivery capabilities around advanced VMware technologies. Today we are proud to announce the successful achievements of the Datacenter Virtualization and Desktop and Mobility VMware Master Services Competencies.

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WEI’s Favorite Household Hacks for Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

By Greg LaBrie | Apr 23, 2019

Over 50 million plastic bottles are thrown away every day in the United States and have truly become a staple in our everyday lives. But you don'y have to throw these plastic bottles away! Our number one recommendation would be to recycle those bottles, but have you thought about ways to reuse them? There are actually many different ways you can reuse and recycle the ordinary items you find in your household, and each time you do that is one less piece of plastic in your local landfill.

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