[August 28, 2015]

ActualTech Media Announces Launch of "The Gorilla Guide™ to Hyperconverged Infrastructure Implementation Strategies"

ActualTech Media, in cooperation with SimpliVity, today released the first volume of its new Gorilla Guide™ book series, helping readers move beyond the basics and dig deeper into the top strategies for implementing hyperconverged infrastructure: "The Gorilla Guide to Hyperconverged Infrastructure Implementation Strategies".

Armed with the latest feedback and implementation data from the field, author and vExpert Scott D. Lowe walks readers through the most popular use cases and approaches for leveraging hyperconverged infrastructure in the heterogeneous data center. "Hyperconverged infrastructure is becoming a more well-known data center option, " explains Lowe, "but people are still struggling with how to adopt this option and what it means for the technology organization and the budget. The Gorilla Guide helps readers better understand the intersection of the technology and the organization and budget, while also helping them determine how the technology can be applied to specific use cases."

Following an overview of the current state of hyperconverged infrastructure and the most pressing data center pain points from the field, the Gorilla Guide™ makes the case for the unique suitability of hyperconverged infrastructure for ensuring availability, data protection and disaster recovery.

Additionally, substantial portions of the book are dedicated to exploring the application of hyperconverged infrastructure architecture in specific use cases. These use cases include Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), remote office or branch office (ROBO), tier 1 and dedicated application support, data center consolidation, as well as test and development environments.

Significantly, the Gorilla Guide also covers potential organizational challenges often encontered when considering hyperconverged infrastructure deployments, including mitigating internal stakeholder skepticism in architecting hyperconverged solutions. The positive impact of hyperconverged infrastructure on the IT budget is also examined in detail.

Regarding the objectives of the new Gorilla Guide book series, ActualTech Media partner David M. Davis said: "We designed Gorilla Guide to bring clarity to what can be an obscure solution (like hyperconverged infrastructure) and help readers understand how a solution works and, more importantly, how it fits into their IT organization. The Gorilla Guide is a trusted companion as readers take journey into new data center technologies and move their IT organizations into the future."

Free eBook copies of the 113-page Gorilla Guide to Hyperconverged Infrastructure Implementation Strategies, courtesy of SimpliVity, are available now for download at ActualTech Media's hyperconverged infrastructure education site located at http://www.hyperconverged.org/. Softcover copies will also be on hand for distribution at the SimpliVity VMworld San Francisco booth (booth #1029).

Details on the Gorilla Guide™ book series are also available at http://www.gorilla.guide/ and http://www.actualtechmedia.com.

About ActualTech Media

ActualTech Media provides enterprise IT decision makers with the information they need to make informed, strategic decisions as they modernize and optimize their IT operations. Leading 3rd party IT industry influencers Scott D. Lowe, David M. Davis and special technical partners cover hot topics from the software-defined data center to hyperconvergence and virtualization. Cutting through the hype, noise and claims around new data center technologies isn't easy, but ActualTech Media helps find the signal in the noise. Analysis, authorship and events produced by ActualTech Media provide an essential piece of the technology evaluation puzzle.

More information available at http://www.actualtechmedia.com/

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