Briefing Note: Hedvig Storage Driver for Flocker Delivers Persistent Storage for Docker Containers Docker is a container technology that virtualizes at a finer level of granularity than a virtual machine (VM). This finer granularity is more lightweight than a VM,…
Cisco July 2015 Briefing Note The enterprise data center is in transition, moving from a variety of scale-up applications and architectures to one where they scale-out. Scale-up designs are typically fibre channel based, where scale-out designs are usually IP based.…
Initiatives like server virtualization, cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, and real-time analytics are allowing IT to meet today’s ever-increasing business demands. These initiatives are designed to bring agility to the data center, yet they trip and fall when they have to interact with…
The Violin Memory Systems “Disk is Dead” campaign says what needed to be said; disk, at least for the production use case, is dead or it least it should be. An autopsy done on the technology will find that it…
Briefing Note: Velostrata Many vendors and analysts have suggested that the hybrid cloud model is the best method for traditional data centers to adopt and leverage the cloud. But IT planners at traditional data centers remain unconvinced. There are simply…
High-Performance Compute (HPC) and the storage infrastructure that supports it has long been considered a realm unto itself. Enterprise IT would have nothing to do with it. However, in the past decade, massive I/O bottlenecks have emerged throughout IT infrastructure…
Which is Right for Windows Applications? Virtualization has allowed the data center to become more responsive to the needs of the business. As it has moved into production, however, virtualization has hit several walls and the scalability of the “one…
Like virtualization before it, container technology will evolve from a DevOps initiative to an enterprise requirement. Docker is leading that evolution as it promises to bring greater efficiency to the data center than we ever thought possible with the virtual…
VMware’s Storage vMotion is an invaluable tool to enable the migration of a virtual machine’s (VMs) datastore to another storage system. It is similar in concept to how regular vMotion migrates a VM to another host in a VMware cluster.…
Up until the past year or two, High-Performance Compute (HPC) environments and the enterprise data center have been separate domains. But now the data intensive demands of analytics, migrations to cloud infrastructures and ever growing numbers of users looking to…
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