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Protecting the VMware Only Data Center – Unitrends Briefing Note

Posted on May 8, 2018 by George Crump

Today, companies that make up the “M” part of small to medium sized businesses (SMB) as well as small enterprises, have data centers that are 100% or close to 100% virtualized, leveraging VMware as their hypervisor. There are no “teams”…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Ransomware, SMB, Unitrends, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Understanding All-Flash Costs – X-IO Briefing Note

Posted on May 4, 2018 by George Crump

All-flash arrays are quickly becoming the production storage system of choice. Organizations like that all-flash arrays eliminate the need to constantly fine tune the environment to wring out that last little bit of performance. The problem is that flash arrays…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, dr, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, QOS, Replication, Snapshot, X-IO
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Solving the Hybrid-Cloud Data Management Problem – Elastifile Briefing Note

Posted on May 2, 2018 by George Crump

Executive leadership wants IT to move the organization to the cloud but does not realize that from a data management perspective, the cloud is akin to the wild, Wild West. To move applications requires refactoring them, and meeting the performance…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Data Fabric, Deduplication, Elastifile, Flash, Hybrid, Migration, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage
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How to Solve VMware Problems, Not Just Knowing About Them – Runecast Briefing Note

Posted on May 1, 2018 by George Crump

Troubleshooting is a big part of the VMware Administrator’s job description. The problem is that most troubleshooting is a reactive process where something has to break before IT leaps into action. The situation gets worse because after a problem has…

Tagged with: Hyperconverged, Migration, Runecast, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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What is IO Acceleration? – JetStream Software Briefing Note

Posted on April 30, 2018 by George Crump

Flash’s first deployment in the data center was often as a cache implementation. A cache is a staging area that holds a small amount of the most recently accessed data. Caching software enables active data to be accessed from flash…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Cloud, Flash, IO Acceleration, JetStream Software, Migration, NVMe, Replication
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For SDS on NAS, Hardware Matters – iXsystems Briefing Note

Posted on April 17, 2018 by George Crump

A well established concept in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market is Software Defined Storage (SDS). SDS is tailor-made for NAS, as a file system is, after all, a software construct and it should run on any hardware. While SDS…

Tagged with: Encryption, iXSystems, NAS, NVDIMM, NVMe, Object Storage, Ransomware, SAN, SDS, VM, VMware
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How to Increase Backup and Recovery? – Rubrik Briefing Note

Posted on April 16, 2018 by George Crump

For most organizations, backup and recovery is their most fragile process. Any change in the environment can cause the entire data protection house of cards to come crashing down around the well-intentioned IT professionals that run it. The problem is…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid, Hypervisor, NoSQL, Recovery in Place, Rubrik
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Making the Composable Data Center a Reality – Liqid Briefing Note

Posted on April 12, 2018 by George Crump

For the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) to deliver its full potential it is necessary to bring together resources like CPUs, GPUs, storage and network into a dynamic pool from which applications or services pull those resources as needed. Then…

Tagged with: Cloud, Composable Storage, Flash, IoT, Liqid, NVMe, PCIe, SDDC
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Data Protection is the Key to Hyperconverged Adoption – HYCU Briefing Note

Posted on April 4, 2018 by George Crump

Most HCI systems are first purchased to be the platform for a specific greenfield project within an already busy data center. The goal is to expand HCI use as new projects come online or old ones are ready for IT…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, MS-SQL, Purpose Built, Recovery
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What Went Wrong with Enterprise File Sync and Share – MyWorkDrive Briefing Note

Posted on April 3, 2018 by George Crump

Sometimes IT vendors are guilty of answering questions that no one is asking. Such is the case with enterprise file sync and share (EFSS). For the most part, users just want to share office files with other colleagues and occasionally…