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Does Google Have a Faster DRaaS Cloud? – Infrascale Briefing Note
All VMs are not created equal. Two VMs running on equivalent hardware could have different performance based on the hypervisor they’re using. And obviously two VMs using the same hypervisor could have different performance based on the underlying hardware. Could…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Hyper-V, Infrascale, Ransomware, SSD, VM
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Does NAS Still Make Sense? – Panzura Briefing Note
When network attached storage (NAS) first came to market its initial use case was to store user data, typically found in file server home directories. All users wanted to be able to do is store and share data between a…
Google Competes Head-to-Head with Amazon – Google Cloud Storage Briefing Note
Google surprised a lot of people with its very strong offering aimed directly at Amazon S3. It is clear the product managers offering the Google cloud storage product were very familiar with complaints people have about Amazon S3 and are…
Simplifying Infrastructure Performance Management for IBM Spectrum – SVA BVQ Briefing Note
Today’s enterprise data center is a complicated virtualized storage infrastructure that has to function reliably and efficiently on a full time basis. It also has to be able to handle ever-increasing amounts of data. A key part of this infrastructure…
Making DRaaS Make Even More Sense – Bluelock Briefing Note
Disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) continues to grow on both the demand and the supply side of the equation. While some still wonder if DRaaS makes sense for their business, many customers and vendors alike are flocking to the…
Tagged with: Backup, Bluelock, Data deduplication, dr, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Replication, Virtualization
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High Performance Private Cloud Storage via Software – StorPool Briefing Note
Multiple classes of storage make up public clouds (Amazon and Google both have at least three tiers). One of those is made from memory like flash or even DRAM to provide high performance storage to compute intensive applications. Private clouds…
Tagged with: Cloud, DRAM, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, performance, SDS, StorPool
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Raising the Bar for Data Aware Scale-out NAS – Qumulo Briefing Note
Over a year ago, Qumulo released a new data-aware scale-out NAS solution designed to address what it considers a key weakness in scale-out storage – Increased data management complexity when adding nodes to the cluster. This means most scale-out NAS…
Controlling AWS with vCenter – HotLink Briefing Note
Many companies are finding workloads that are much more appropriate for the infinite scalability and cost predictability of the public cloud. They are also finding the public cloud to be an excellent disaster recovery and business continuity resource. The challenges…
Real-time Performance Analysis for the Hybrid Data Center – Virtual Instruments Briefing
The modern data center is hybrid – while most of its applications are still on premises, an increasing number are moving to the cloud. In addition, data centers find the need to increase scale and instantly adapt to changes in…
Tagged with: APM, Cloud, Hybrid, IPM, performance, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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