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Storage Q&A: with Ron Bianchini, CEO of Avere Systems

Recently we had a very well-attended webinar with the CEO of Avere Systems, Ron Bianchini, “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy”. The following excerpt from the Q & A portion of the webinar discusses how businesses can

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ChalkTalk Video – The Unique Hyper-V Storage Challenges

All virtualization environments place a strain on the storage infrastructure, making planning and design more critical than ever. But an advanced storage architecture drives up the cost of implementation. The relative cost of storage is a big concern in VMware

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Designing cost effective Storage Systems for Hyper-V

In a competition that many had pronounced over, Microsoft’s Hyper-V is now a viable candidate in the SMB, the remote office and even the enterprise data center. It brings the key virtualization features that most data centers need while being

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Webinar: Should your Storage be Virtualized, Software Defined or none of the above?

Whether you are planning to upgrade your current storage system or getting ready for a complete storage refresh, today’s IT planner has more storage choices than ever. A key decision is how you will access critical storage services like volume

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The Storage Architect and the DBA

Three Steps To A Productive Relationship That Ensures Optimal Database Performance When database performance issues arise, the finger of blame is often pointed at the storage infrastructure, and this can lead to conflict between the database administrator and the storage

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Poll – What Type of Storage Network Are You Using?

To get an exclusive copy of Storage Switzerland’s White Paper “Maximum VM Density Requires Optimal Storage Networking and Management” register for the on demand webinar and download your copy of the paper today. Brocade and VMware are clients of Storage

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The ROI of Dense Virtual Machines

Organizations that have fully embraced virtualization are buying host-class servers to put their VMs on. This equipment is “richer” in its configuration, with more processing power, more memory and higher quality components than the typical server designed for a single

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The three requirements of the modern Storage Network

The storage network has new requirements being placed on it so it can keep pace with the modern data center. The first cause of change is being driven by virtualization, both server and desktop. We have the compute power and

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ChalkTalk Video – How To Overcome The NetApp Capacity Gap

Join Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump and Crossroads Systems Executive Vice President of Strategy, David Cerf in this ChalkTalk video as they detail the problems with the growing NetApp Environment and how new solutions are coming to market that

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