Excel spreadsheets are the well-worn method IT administrators use to manage oversight of their storage systems. The spreadsheets track what servers serve to what LUN, how much capacity is available per LUN and how much capacity is available to assign.…
Hyperconvergence is capturing the attention of IT professionals. The apparent simplicity of the technology is certainly appealing to an IT staff that is often stretched too thin to properly manage the environment. As a result the IT staff is often…
The longer you keep data, the more it makes sense to move it off of primary storage and into a different kind of system. It makes financial sense, as discussed in the previous blog entry. It also makes sense for…
Embracing and taking full advantage of big data analytics can provide tremendous returns to organizations willing to invest. The problem is that while we understand the value of analytics, how to get started is confusing. Most big data analytic projects…
How To Break “The Cycle” and Move To Hyperconvergence Traditional three-tier (compute, network, storage) architectures have served their purpose. In today’s modern data centers, is a storage area network (SAN) the best fit to support your virtualized workloads and cloud…
Hyperconverged architectures claim to collapse compute, storage and networking into the same physical hardware. They create a cluster out of physical servers and leverage hypervisor technology to allow the cluster to run virtual machines and storage services at the same…
Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems and file servers were the foundation of collaboration in the 90’s. These storage systems primarily served the needs of users that needed to share files for projects. In the 2000’s NAS systems found a lease…
Briefing Note: Tintri VMstore Since the advent of VMware and other virtualization products, storage has been an issue. First, the challenge is having to use traditional shared storage devices with hypervisors. Traditional LUNs are too difficult to create, grow, and…
ZeroStack Briefing Note It is hard to argue with the flexibility of Amazon Web Services and similar offerings. With just a few mouse clicks or API calls, customers can have a completely operational database or web server ready for development…
For most data centers, periodic storage refreshes are a way of life. Many times, the storage vendor causes the refresh by pricing out-year maintenance renewals to the point that it is more cost effective to buy a new system than…
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