As we’ve mentioned in previous columns, in order for a VDI project to have any chance of success it has to deliver at least the same computing experience users had prior to their desktop being virtualized. That makes sense, but…
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VDI will eat your Storage System – and what to do about it
Tagged with: Atlantis, Compression, Cost Effective, Deduplication, Desktop Density, Disaster recovery, IBM, ILIO, VDI, Virtual desktop
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Will your Converged Infrastructure reduce operational costs?
Some manufacturers have developed converged offerings that make the deployment of server compute, networking and storage resources more streamlined by pre-integrating each component into a rack enclosure. While this reduces deployment time, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the ongoing operational…
Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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Scaling Converged Infrastructure can elevate costs
Converged infrastructures combine the four components of a compute environment – a server, storage, networking and a virtualization platform – in a single system. The concept is to simplify the implementation of a compute environment and maintain that simplicity as…
Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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The Enterprise needs Web-Scale Scalability
Data centers of all sizes are investigating Web-Scale architectures to see if they will meet their needs. In our recent webinar, “Web-scale vs. Enterprise IT“, we asked enterprise IT planners “What Appeals Most About a Web-Scale Architecture?”. The top vote…
Tagged with: Architecture, Backup, Compatibility, Disaster recovery, Nutanix, Web-scale
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What is the cost of Application Downtime?
During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Designing Cloud Backup To Reduce DR Downtime”, we asked the audience, “If Your Computer Room Was Flooded, How Long Would You Be Down?” Nearly half the respondents stated that they didn’t know how long…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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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”,…
Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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Can Joe’s Plumbing benefit from Google and Facebook Storage?
Do businesses really need Facebook or Google like web-scale storage capabilities? After all, these organizations support Exabytes of information on a global scale. Many businesses today are merely looking for ways to lower their total cost of storage ownership (TCO),…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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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…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
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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…
Tagged with: Backup, Converged Storage, Dell, Disaster recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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Private Cloud Storage cost containment
Reducing the cost of storage may seem like a fool’s errand in a world where enterprise production data is predicted to grow by 800% over the next five years. It’s the proverbial “finger in the dyke”. But if there was…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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