Did you ever hear the old adage that to a hammer everything looks like a nail? This is certainly true in the land of the all flash array. Such arrays are certainly the fastest storage array option available today, and…
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Flash Storage: Sometimes Performance Is Not Enough
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, IBM, performance, VDI, Virtualization
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Acronis Launches Three Cloud Services
Acronis has come a long way since the initial introduction of its backup software many years ago. It now protects over 5 Exabyte of data for over 500,000 business customers and over 5 million consumer customers, 40 percent of whom…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hypervisor, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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The Post-Virtualization Refresh: Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?
Hyperconvergence has seen significant uptake in the last two years, driven by its simplification of IT infrastructure. It reduces the need to manage discrete devices or have specialized training in component-level technology, such as storage area networks (SANs); makes operations…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization, WAN
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Webinar: Flash Myth: Flash is for Everything vs. Flash is for One Thing
Different workloads demand different attributes from their storage. These differences lead some to believe flash storage is only good for certain point use cases like accelerating databases. But the performance of flash systems lead others to claim a single flash…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, IBM, performance
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SlideShare: Cloud Storage: The 5 Reasons IT Can Do it Better
Cloud storage sounds like the ultimate solution for one of the data center’s biggest problems. What do you do with unstructured data that is rapidly growing both in terms of capacity consumed and number of files you store? Cloud storage…
Migration – The Storage Refresh Killer
Data Dynamics Briefing Note At some point in a storage administrators tenure, they will have to navigate the organization through a storage refresh. Actually they may have to guide the organization through several of these refreshes. It is a huge…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Dynamics, Migration, NFS, Replication, SMB, Storage Refresh, Unstructured data
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Software Defined Hyperconvergence
Stratoscale Briefing Note Hyperconverged solutions allow organizations to leverage storage and compute in their data centers shrinking the data center footprint and reducing cost of hardware while optimizing software. Most of these solutions provide some of the elements needed to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined, Stratoscale, VMware
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What is a Cloud Ready Platform?
Once an organization has carefully considered all the various factors, requirements and ramifications of a cloud first strategy and has decided to implement it, they need the means to accomplish the migration of their selected data, applications and processes to…
Bats Aren’t Blind & IT Shouldn’t be Either
Bats aren’t blind. They just can’t see. The term “blind as a bat” could just as well be “blind as a person driving in the dark without headlights.” The reason bats are “blind” is that they hunt at night and…
Data Centers need Open Cloud Integration
Organizations establishing a cloud first strategy are looking for ways to integrate both legacy and modern applications. They are also looking for ways to automate and orchestrate redundant tasks. The goal is self-service IT, where users order the capabilities they…
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