How the Pure Evergreen Storage Service Makes Flash Upgrades Simpler and Cost-Efficient

John Flores April 15, 2019

According to a new report from ResearchAndMarkets, the all-flash storage market will triple in size from $5.9 billion in 2018 to $17.8 billion by 2023, growing at an annual rate of 29.75 percent. Organizations are adopting all-flash storage solutions to meet growing demand for higher performance, constant uptime and energy efficiency.

Expanding use of flash in the data center for artificial intelligence applications, big data analytics, the Internet of Things and virtualization is also expected to drive increased adoption over the next few years. These technologies require a modern infrastructure that is capable of storing and processing large volumes of data to keep up with heavy workload demands.

In fact, many organizations are not only implementing flash but looking to upgrade older flash arrays to new technologies such as non-volatile memory express (NVMe). NVMe is a protocol that accelerates the process of accessing data from high-speed flash storage media. NVMe delivers faster response times and lower latency than legacy flash solutions. However, IT departments may have difficulty justifying investments in NVMe to replace all-flash arrays that are only a few years old.

The Evergreen Storage Service was developed by Pure Storage to help organizations future-proof their storage environment and overcome the expense and disruption of the traditional forklift upgrade model. The idea behind Evergreen Storage is to enable in-place upgrades that allow you to modernize and expand your storage as needed – including controllers, external host and internal array connectivity, and flash arrays.

Pure’s approach protects your investment by allowing you to upgrade to next-generation technology without repurchasing hardware or software licenses. Maintenance and support costs remain the same. Essentially, Evergreen Storage allows you take advantage of a cloud-like model in which software and hardware are continuously updated without large capital investments, data migrations or downtime.

Pay-per-use on-premises storage allows you to keep your storage infrastructure fresh, modern and worry-free through generations. It also extends the life of Pure’s existing Right-Size Guarantee as capacity requirements change. The Right-Size Guarantee ensures that you don’t purchase too much or too little storage capacity.

A Total Economic Impact study from Forrester offers insights into the benefits, costs and risks associated with an investment in a Pure Evergreen Storage Gold subscription. For midmarket organizations, the analysis points to risk-adjusted benefits of $1,705,119 over six years and operating costs of $721,476. This translates to a net present value of $983,643 and a risk adjusted ROI of 136 percent. Forrester projects an average of 33 percent in capital expenses and subscription fees compared to a forklift upgrade. When you factor in reductions in environmental, management and migration costs, the average costs savings jump to more than 50 percent.

Pure’s Evergreen Storage Service can be up and running in a matter of days, providing you with a scalable, on-premises storage solution that’s purpose-built for flash with tier-one, enterprise-grade capabilities. Let us show you how Evergreen Storage allows you to take full advantage of the latest flash storage technology as needed without the high cost, risk and disruption of a conventional upgrade.

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Converge Technology Solutions Announces USD $4.3m Contract with Leading US Financial Institution

Converge Technology Solutions Corp. June 26, 2019

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Converge Technology Solutions Corp. (“Converge” or “the Company”) (TSXV:CTS) (FSE:0ZB) (OTCQX:CTSDF) is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a USD $4.3m contract with a large US-based financial services company to deliver enterprise software solutions. Key Information Systems, a Converge family company traditionally focused on enterprise hardware, working alongside both Essex Technology Group, Inc. (“Essextec”) and Lighthouse Computer Services (“Lighthouse”), will deliver enterprise class software in a cloud environment leveraging Red Hat solutions. Essextec and Lighthouse are both members of the Converge family of companies.

“Earlier this year, we worked with Essextec and Lighthouse to create a sales enablement program around software and had both teams visit the 145 sales people that are part of the Converge family across seven unique locations,” said Shaun Maine, Chief Executive Officer of Converge. “While the feedback was overwhelmingly positive, we did not anticipate seeing results so quickly, especially out of our companies that are traditionally focused on hardware solutions.”

Mr. Maine continued, “This contract, along with the various others our sales team have secured, further validates our belief that the cross-selling strategy we have implemented across all the organizations we have acquired to date has created an exciting opportunity to drive significant organic growth within our business. We believe that our software solutions will continue to make up larger and larger components of our revenue moving forward. In our view, this bodes extremely well for the future as many of our long-standing clients look to us to guide them through their cloud journey, including offering Red Hat solutions which we believe will be a powerful driver of growth moving forward.”

About Converge Technology Solutions

Converge Technology Solutions is building a platform of regionally focused Hybrid IT solution providers that deliver best-of-breed solutions and services to clients. These capabilities are enhanced by advanced expertise in cloud solutions, artificial intelligence, blockchain, resiliency, and managed services, enabling Converge to address the business and IT challenges that public and private-sector organizations face today. To learn more about Converge, visit www.convergetp.com

For further information contact:

Mary Anne Palangio Virtus Advisory Group Chief Financial Officer Shareholder Inquiries Converge Technology Solutions Corp. Email: converge@virtusadvisory.com Email: investors@convergetp.com Phone: 416-644-5081 Phone: 416-360-1495

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Converge Technology Solutions: Shaping a New World of Hybrid IT

Converge Technology Solutions Corp. April 1, 2019

Recently, Greg Berard, President of Converge East Region and Lighthouse Computer Services, a Converge Company, has been featured on the cover of IBM’s CIO Review March 2019 edition.

The cover story continues on page ten and describes how Converge is building a platform of regionally-focused hybrid IT solutions providers to enhance their ability to address the business and IT issues that public and private-sector organizations face today.

Converge’s innovation-driven business model is explained through customer success stories and a high overview of their evolving cloud platform capabilities. As a platinum partner in IBM’s PartnerWorld Program and a significant participant in IBM’s Partner Advisory Council, Converge is considered a leading innovator in the industry of hybrid cloud solutions.

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Gain Visibility and Value from Data with Cohesity DataPlatform

John Flores March 28, 2019

Data is the coin of the realm for modern business, providing insights that help companies make better decisions, understand markets, boost sales, improve processes and optimize costs. In fact, there are very few business decisions that aren’t influenced by data these days.

Finding and using that data is becoming increasingly difficult, however.

Organizations of all shapes and sizes tend to take a “save everything” mentality when it comes to data, storing everything just in case they might need it later. In addition, these data stores are being continually copied for applications such as backup, disaster recovery, development, testing and analytics. IDC estimates that as much as 60 percent of all stored data are copies.

Over time, this practice creates mass data fragmentation with data spread across myriad infrastructure silos, preventing organizations from fully extracting its value. In a recent Vanson Bourne survey of more than 900 senior IT decision-makers, 87 percent said their organization’s data is fragmented, making management difficult and raising fears around competitive threats, compliance risks, job losses and missed revenue opportunities.

To get the most value from their data, organizations need to find a way to break down these data silos and eliminate the need to continually copy and move data around. The Cohesity DataPlatform solution creates an elegant way to accomplish those goals. Rather than moving copies of data into separate application infrastructures, DataPlatform brings compute to the data.

One Platform for Data and Apps

DataPlatform is a hyper-converged appliance that delivers both storage and compute capacity. Based on a unique distributed file system called SpanFS, the scale-out solution allows organizations to run applications on the same platform that houses massive volumes of backup and unstructured data. It works by creating an abstraction layer that sits between physical data sources and the apps that use that data. Apps can access data within each of the data nodes that form the building blocks of DataPlatform.

SpanFS effectively combines all secondary data, including backups, files, objects, test/development and analytics data. It supports industry-standard file and object protocols such as NFS, SMB and S3 and performs global deduplication, storage tiering, global indexing and search. Data is dynamically balanced across all nodes, and individual nodes can be added or removed to adjust capacity or performance with no downtime.

There are numerous advantages to this design. By removing the need to use separate infrastructure for running applications, DataPlatform eliminates data silos and reduces data fragmentation. It reduces complexity by allowing organizations to manage everything from a single user interface. It advances business-critical goals around compliance, eDiscovery and security by enabling key apps to look holistically across all backup and unstructured data.

Easy App Access

The Cohesity Marketplace makes it easy to download and use Cohesity-developed applications as well as a variety of third-party apps for conducting granular analysis, ensuring data compliance, improving security and more. Third-party apps available through the marketplace include Splunk Enterprise for indexing and analyzing data, SentinelOne and Clam antivirus solutions, and Imanis Data, a machine-learning-based data management platform.

Cohesity-developed applications include Insight, which enables interactive text search across all data nodes, and Spotlight, a security tool for monitoring any modifications to file data. The Cohesity EasyScript application streamlines the complex and time-consuming process of uploading, executing and managing scripts by providing convenient access to all script creation elements.

How valuable is your data? That’s obviously difficult to say with certainty. PwC analysts have estimated that, in the financial sector alone, the revenue from commercializing data is about $300 billion per year. However, data is only valuable if you understand where it is, what it is and how to use it. By eliminating data silos and reducing fragmentation, Cohesity DataPlatform provides a framework for fully realizing the value of your data assets.

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