Riverbed Briefing Note Most of the focus in the enterprise is on the data center, but in reality most of the action is in the remote office/branch office (ROBO). ROBO is the new normal for most organizations. It allows them…
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Remote IT is Moving to the Top of the IT Whiteboard
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, Data Fragmentation, dr, Hyperconverged, Riverbed, ROBO, Virtualization, WAN
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The Post-Virtualization Refresh: Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?
Hyperconvergence has seen significant uptake in the last two years, driven by its simplification of IT infrastructure. It reduces the need to manage discrete devices or have specialized training in component-level technology, such as storage area networks (SANs); makes operations…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization, WAN
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Webinar: Flash Myth: Flash is for Everything vs. Flash is for One Thing
Different workloads demand different attributes from their storage. These differences lead some to believe flash storage is only good for certain point use cases like accelerating databases. But the performance of flash systems lead others to claim a single flash…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, IBM, performance
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SlideShare: Cloud Storage: The 5 Reasons IT Can Do it Better
Cloud storage sounds like the ultimate solution for one of the data center’s biggest problems. What do you do with unstructured data that is rapidly growing both in terms of capacity consumed and number of files you store? Cloud storage…
Migration – The Storage Refresh Killer
Data Dynamics Briefing Note At some point in a storage administrators tenure, they will have to navigate the organization through a storage refresh. Actually they may have to guide the organization through several of these refreshes. It is a huge…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Dynamics, Migration, NFS, Replication, SMB, Storage Refresh, Unstructured data
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Software Defined Hyperconvergence
Stratoscale Briefing Note Hyperconverged solutions allow organizations to leverage storage and compute in their data centers shrinking the data center footprint and reducing cost of hardware while optimizing software. Most of these solutions provide some of the elements needed to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined, Stratoscale, VMware
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Are You Asking Too Much of Your NetApp Filer?
Organizations are asking the present day NetApp Filer to do many things: host home directories, store machine generated data, host virtual machine images and even databases. What was once a single purpose appliance focused on file server replacement is now…
Tagged with: Caringo, Data Protection, FAS, ISCSI, NetApp, Object Storage, Replication, Snaphots, Unstructured data, VM
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Disaggregated Hadoop Clusters – DriveScale Briefing Note
Web-scale applications are designed to run on dozens, if not thousands, of small commodity servers, which expect direct-attached storage. As a result storage performance and capacity is directly tied to the purchase of more compute (servers). Over time almost every…
Tagged with: Capacity, DriveScale, JBODS, performance, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Data Centers need Open Cloud Integration
Organizations establishing a cloud first strategy are looking for ways to integrate both legacy and modern applications. They are also looking for ways to automate and orchestrate redundant tasks. The goal is self-service IT, where users order the capabilities they…
Webinar: What Does Your Next NetApp Refresh Look Like?
Most organizations making an investment in NetApp Filers count on the system to store user data and host virtual machine datastores from an environment like VMware. In addition these organizations want their NetApp systems to do more and be the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Caringo, NetApp, Object Storage, Unstructured data, VMware
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