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Designing Highly Scalable Storage for Dense Virtual Machine Environments

We will discuss the testing methodology and scalability results for 4 & 8 node clustered Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 systems yielding 15,000 VMs in real-world enterprise environments. The test establishes linear performance scalability as nodes are added to the cluster,

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Are Converged Infrastructures getting hijacked?

Converged infrastructures are capturing the attention of organizations who are hoping to drive down IT costs while increasing data center agility. As we will discuss in our on demand webinar, “Is Convergence Right for You? – 4 Questions to Ask”,

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Backing up the Agile Data Center

The data center of the future will be agile. Applications, servers, networks and storage will all be dynamically configured through software. Lost somewhere in all the hype around that agile data center is the cold reality that its data protection

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What is Copy Data?

Controlling the growth of Copy Data is IT’s next big challenge. This data is made up of the copies of primary data made for data protection, testing, archives, eDiscovery and analytics. It is created and “managed” by a hodgepodge of technology making matters worse. It’s time for IT to take a step back and consider a holistic solution to the problem that will reduce costs and increase copy data value.

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Storage Short: How Dense can a VM Environment get?

VM density is something companies are striving for as they work to lower the TCO of their virtualized environments. The question is, how dense can you get; how many VMs can your successfully run on each host? In this Storage

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Can Dell be a leader in the Software Defined, Converged Data Center?

IDC recently recognized Dell as the leader in total terabytes sold (internal and external), and strengthened our stance that Dell is well positioned as we continue down the road to software defined storage and converged infrastructure. Dell is unique among

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Data Center Visit – Cloud Provider vs. Converged Storage

Our latest data center visit was to a Texas based cloud provider focused on providing compute and hosting services. While they are one of the largest providers in the market, what makes them unique is their security. They provide one

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Webinar: Is The All-Flash Data Center Myth or Reality?

It has been said that if you could afford to build an All-Flash data center, you would. But can we really create the All-Flash data center? Join experts from Storage Switzerland and Tegile as we discuss whether or not the

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Removing the fuzzy math from VDI

One of the aspects of server virtualization that makes it so popular is the simplicity of the return on investment (ROI) calculation. An IT Manager can look at the reduction in physical servers, combined with the increase in application workload,

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Set my Applications free – Achieving VM Mobility

Virtualization 1.0 provided an early taste of the value of application mobility by allowing the live migration of virtual machines to alternate hosts. But that mobility was confined to a single hypervisor, and for the most part a single data

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