Prior to the cloud era, most business information stayed on the corporate WAN. But now more corporate data traffic is going over the internet to sites like Salesforce.com, Dropbox and AWS. The problem is IT has limited visibility and control…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Storage, Data Protection and Data Insight All-In-One
If knowledge is power, then DataGravity’s solution offering may be a way for businesses to tap into that power. During Day 2 of VMworld, we sat down with the folks from DataGravity to discuss how their “data aware” storage platform…
Tagged with: Compliance, Data Governance, Data Protection, DataGravity, Storage
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Are All-Flash Arrays ready for All Primary Data?
Flash has been making its way into data centers primarily as an accelerant to existing workloads. Most of that adoption has been in the form of a hybrid use case, the combination of flash and hard disk drives. As we…
Picking The Next Storage Networking Protocol
The data center is under immense pressure to scale the infrastructure to support more virtual machines, more users per database and to deal with the capacity growth caused by big data. As they refresh their storage systems to address these…
Tagged with: CISCO, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Infrastructure, Scale, Storage Networking Protocol
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
Open Platform Docker simplifies Software Development Cycle
At VMworld we spoke with Docker, an open software platform designed to simplify the building, shipping and running of distributed applications. Similar to the way VMware virtualizes the hardware, Docker essentially virtualizes the operating system. This results in greater standardization…
Tagged with: Complexity, Docker, Efficiency, Operating system, Software, Virtualize
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Posted in Briefing Note
Webinar – The five ways your Backup Design can Impact Virtualized Data Protection
Virtualization specific backup applications, like Veeam, are the fastest growing segment of the data protection market, and for good reason. They promise to provide better, faster and more accurate data protection, while almost eliminating application recovery times. But the challenge…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Replication, Virtualization
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Posted in Webinar
The Virtualized Cloud Fabric
Many organizations are deploying multiple hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM in an effort to drive down costs. But this can cause infrastructure sprawl, hinder virtualized application mobility and impact the ability of an IT organization to meet SLAs. In…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Service Level, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
Four Requirements for adding DR-as-a-Service to VMware
For years, organizations have struggled with maintaining functional disaster recovery capabilities for their most critical business systems. The capital investment for redundant hardware, software and data center infrastructure, along with the personnel time required to ensure that business applications are…
Tagged with: Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, EMC, Hypervisor, Provisioning, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, VM, VMware
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Zetta No-Appliance Cloud Backup now supports Full Image Backup
Zetta has been offering a different kind of cloud-based backup since their inception five years ago. Their “direct-to-cloud” backup solution doesn’t use any hardware on-site, just their software which runs on application servers and file servers in the data center.…
VMworld After Hours: Tegile Party
Next up for Storage Switzerland was the Tegile “No Compromise” party. We grabbed Rob Commins, who was in studio earlier in the day, and David Bangs, Tegile’s new VP of Sales. More on Tegile Tegile takes a Reverse Hybrid Approach…
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