One of the promised benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is simplicity coming from the convergence of computing, networking, and storage into a single tier and from the ease of scale by “just adding a node.” Half of the promise is…
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HCI 2 Stays Simple
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Axellio, Big data, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, Machine Learning, MS-SQL, Sprawl, Virtualization
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Webinar: All in the Cloud – Data Protection Up, Costs Down
Managing and protecting critical data across servers and applications in multiple locations around the globe is challenging. And the more decentralized and complex your infrastructure, the more difficult it is to manage your data. The potential bad news? Data loss,…
Fifteen Minute Friday: Will the Software Defined Data Center Ever Happen?
Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) leverage intelligent software to manage commodity hardware to create a flexible data center that meets performance and capacity requirements while simplifying operations and reducing overall data center costs. While the vision of SDDC sounds ideal…
Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Scale-Out, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined
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Eliminating Stub Files for a Better Archive
The case for archiving is beyond compelling. Most organizations don’t access data once it is older than 90 days. In most cases, inactive data can consume 85% or more of the organization’s primary storage capacity. Moving inactive data to secondary…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, infinite io, Latency, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Understanding the 5 Most Common Oversights in a DRaaS Strategy
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) is potentially one of the best use cases for cloud resources. DR sites owned by the organization are expensive to set up and maintain as well as challenging to get to when a disaster…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, dr, DRaaS, KeepItSafe, Migration, Recovery, Replication, Veeam
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SlideShare: Tips for The Weekend – Stop the Unstructured Data Madness
Most organizations are not satisfied with their ability to backup, recovery and correctly retain unstructured data. The combination of unprecedented growth and increased scrutiny caused by regulations like GDPR and CCPA is pushing organizations to the brink. It’s time to…
Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, CCPA, Cloud, eDiscovery, GDPR, Igneous, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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Does NVMe Flash Mean the End of SAS Flash?
Before NVMe, most flash systems were either serial attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) based. In all-flash arrays, SAS was the preferred protocol because of its higher bandwidth and ability to support multi-port connections. NVMe is the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, PCIe, SAS, SATA, Western Digital
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Fifteen Minute Friday: Designing Cloud Storage for the Data Center, the Edge, and the Cloud
When most vendors talk about solving an organization’s storage problems, they typically are talking about solving their challenges in one of three categories: the data center, the edge or the cloud. The reality is that even within these three categories,…
How Data Centers Can Implement Open Networking Now
The use of Open Networking promises operational value, data center flexibility and a reduction in the cost of network infrastructure. Next Generation SDN (Software Defined Networking) promises automation, increased agility and a reduction in operational costs of data center networking…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hypervisor, IBN, Migration, NOS, Open Networking, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Virtualization
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HCI 2.0 Delivers Enterprise Class Performance
One of the initial appeals of hyper-converged infrastructure is its use of commodity hardware which in theory lowers costs. The reality is that most commodity hardware isn’t able to fully utilize high-performance CPUs, internal connectivity and high-performance NVMe media, which…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Axellio, Big data, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, Machine Learning, MS-SQL, Sprawl, Virtualization
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