The initial return on investment (ROI) of server or desktop virtualization projects are impressive. The potential cost savings associated with eliminating dozens of physical servers or the reduction in operations time to manage thousands of user desktops, can be rewarding.…
Retaining data is about more than compliance, now organizations want to keep data sets because they can leverage them to make better decisions or re-sell that data. In short there is money in the data; but you have to have…
In order for databases to scale, virtual environments to become denser, and analytics to become more real-time, storage performance needs to scale. That means designing storage architectures that not only meet the needs of today’s applications but also the needs…
Are you drowning in unstructured data? Can a private cloud, object based storage system be the solution? Watch our on demand webinar “5 Reasons Object Storage Can Solve Unstructured Data Problems” and get your head above water! According to industry…
Storage Switzerland was recently commissioned by Dell Storage to audit a lab test of their new Compellent All-Flash Array. This storage system is the first to tier between types of flash just like legacy storage systems tier between types of…
Server-side caching solutions seem to be the answer for every storage performance woe by enabling users to conduct a ‘surgical strike’ on storage I/O bottlenecks. But are they able to live up to all the hype? And what about the…
Caching has become the primary way way to integrate SSD into VMware Environments. Solutions have appeared that implement at the hypervisor layer and inside the VM at the guest OS layer but which caching technique is best? In this webinar,…
Thanks to virtualization and improved abilities in backup software, the data protection process has become easier to implement and operate but unlike other technologies, it has not become less expensive. Whether the licensing strategy is module based or capacity based,…
VMware creates a storage performance challenge for almost any data center that has implemented virtualization. No matter the size of the environment, the fundamental issue is dealing with highly randomized storage I/O. The theoretical quick fix has been to embrace…
Organizations of all sizes are delivering mission critical applications to users and customers that are built on Microsoft SQL. But many of these organizations lack the time, skill sets and tools required to develop a capable data protection strategy. Instead…
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