Converged infrastructures combine the four components of a compute environment – a server, storage, networking and a virtualization platform – in a single system. The concept is to simplify the implementation of a compute environment and maintain that simplicity as…
Data centers of all sizes are investigating Web-Scale architectures to see if they will meet their needs. In our recent webinar, “Web-scale vs. Enterprise IT“, we asked enterprise IT planners “What Appeals Most About a Web-Scale Architecture?”. The top vote…
During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Designing Cloud Backup To Reduce DR Downtime”, we asked the audience, “If Your Computer Room Was Flooded, How Long Would You Be Down?” Nearly half the respondents stated that they didn’t know how long…
Maintaining the right level of uptime for newly virtualized critical applications is a key requirement for virtualization administrators. In this higher stakes, virtualized world time tested techniques like establishing recovery point and recovery time objectives are as critical as ever. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump helps you design a data protection strategy for VMs that are critical to the business.
We will discuss the testing methodology and scalability results for 4 & 8 node clustered Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 systems yielding 15,000 VMs in real-world enterprise environments. The test establishes linear performance scalability as nodes are added to the cluster,…
Converged infrastructures are capturing the attention of organizations who are hoping to drive down IT costs while increasing data center agility. As we will discuss in our on demand webinar, “Is Convergence Right for You? – 4 Questions to Ask”,…
Do businesses really need Facebook or Google like web-scale storage capabilities? After all, these organizations support Exabytes of information on a global scale. Many businesses today are merely looking for ways to lower their total cost of storage ownership (TCO),…
The data center of the future will be agile. Applications, servers, networks and storage will all be dynamically configured through software. Lost somewhere in all the hype around that agile data center is the cold reality that its data protection…
Controlling the growth of Copy Data is IT’s next big challenge. This data is made up of the copies of primary data made for data protection, testing, archives, eDiscovery and analytics. It is created and “managed” by a hodgepodge of technology making matters worse. It’s time for IT to take a step back and consider a holistic solution to the problem that will reduce costs and increase copy data value.
VM density is something companies are striving for as they work to lower the TCO of their virtualized environments. The question is, how dense can you get; how many VMs can your successfully run on each host? In this Storage…
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