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Is VDI making you throw out your Storage?

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects bring many benefits to the data center. The operational gains alone justify VDI. The challenge is getting users to embrace it so that IT can experience those operational gains. User adoption often comes down to

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Avere FXT 5000 Series Edge Filer Product Analysis

For quite some time now, organizations have been struggling with increasingly expensive and complex infrastructures as they fight to control and protect the ever-increasing avalanche of unstructured data. At the same time, they need to meet the demands from users

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Flash Strategy 2.0: Optimizing NetApp with Flash and Cloud

For most organizations, databases are the heart of the data center. Not surprisingly, its IT infrastructure revolves around those databases. But there are market segments like Media and Entertainment, Life Sciences, Financial Services and Technology where unstructured data is at

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SlideShare: Achieving VDI Success Without All-Flash Problems

The goal of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is to lower the operational costs of supporting an organization’s desktops and laptops. A VDI project should make it easier for IT to support users, keep the organization safe from viruses and better

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Webinar: 4 Ways to Improve NetApp Storage Performance Without Replacing It

Unstructured data is growing rapidly and IT planners are searching for ways to cost effectively store this data. While most unstructured data is inactive, a small portion of it is very active and the applications using that portion demand very

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New Paper: The Post-Virtualization Refresh: Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?

With the move to virtualization well underway, the data center faces its most pivotal technology refresh in its history. The current architecture was designed before the introduction of virtualization, but virtualization has been adopted into that legacy architecture at an

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Disaster Proof Local On-Site Backups

Briefing Note – ioSafe’s BDR 515 There are few things better than a local copy of your data center when the worst happens.  Unfortunately, events that destroy your data center also take out your backup system. Most people use tapes

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Tape vs Cloud for Archive and Cold Data

As my colleague, George Crump, discussed in a previous article, “What is Better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data”, cloud storage is great for processing active data but becomes increasingly expensive for storing cold data that is seldom accessed. While

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Is the Three-Tier Architecture needed?

The traditional three-tier architecture – compute, networking and storage – has served IT well for decades. It was born in an era where the availability of these resources were in short supply and the cost to acquire them was very

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