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NVMe and NVMe Over Fabrics Critical To Next Generation Storage Architectures
The storage media used to be the slowest component within the storage architecture. Now, thanks to flash, it is the fastest. While the performance and low latency of flash allows data centers to make significant steps forward in application scale…
A Hybrid Cloud is not Two Clouds
VMware starts the organization on the journey to the software defined data center. With their workloads freed from the bounds of physical hardware they look for ways to take advantage of the newfound application mobility. Destinations under consideration include both…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Copy Data, DRaaS, Hybrid, Latency, Software Defined, VMware
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SlideShare: 10-Minutes to Cloud: How to Quickly Shift Big Data Processing
Enterprises aren’t the only organizations that can benefit from big data. Medium and large businesses can too. The challenge is, can these businesses build the same big data infrastructure enterprises do? The short answer is, they can’t. But the secret…
What’s Next in Storage: Cloud to Cloud Data Movement
The writing’s on the wall. Eventually almost every organization will use cloud storage in one form or another. While the use cases may range from production applications to backup, the economics may be too appealing for an organization not to…
Can You Fall in Love with Data Classification Again?
Veritas Integrated Classification Engine Briefing Note Almost a decade ago, data classification was the new “in thing” for the data center. The project looked like a great idea on the whiteboard, but then the wheels came off during implementation and…
Webinar: How To Leverage Cloud Storage for Hybrid VMware
The VMware environment, for most data centers, is the beginning of their cloud journey. But they struggle with the next step, moving applications or storage to the cloud. Sure, there are applications to migrate or replicate virtual machines to the…
How To Simplify Branch Office Connectivity – Silver Peak Briefing Note
The modern data center enterprise is made up of mobile workers and many offices of different sizes. The problem is branch connectivity is left out of the modernization effort. The days of a single main headquarters data center location are…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid, MPLS, QOS, SaaS, SD-WAN, Silver Peak, Software Defined, VPN, WAN
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The Problems with Storage Performance Benchmarks
There are a number of storage performance benchmarks that provide a standardized way to compare storage systems from various vendors. The problem is there are few, if any, data centers that have a workload that is exactly like those benchmarks.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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When Will The Storage Performance Bubble Burst – Cisco Briefing Note
Many data centers are experiencing a performance bubble. They have more than they need. The move from high latency hard disk systems to almost zero latent flash arrays delivers dramatic performance in every case. But this bubble will burst and…
Tagged with: All-Flash, CISCO, Containers, FC, Flash, Hard disk, NVMe, SCSI, Virtualization
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