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Overcoming the Storage Challenges of Hyperscale Data Centers – Excelero Briefing Note

Posted on July 14, 2017 by George Crump

A hyperscale data center may have hundreds of instances of multiple applications. At any point in time one of these instances may peak and demand a much higher than normal amount of CPU and storage IO, starving other instances and…

Tagged with: Cloud, Containers, Convergence, CPU, Excelero, Hyperconvergence, Hyperscale, IOPS, Mirroring, NVMe, Replication, Software Defined, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note

ChalkTalk Video: Maximizing the Potential of NVDIMM Storage Class Memory with Software Defined Memory

Posted on December 15, 2015 by George Crump

Delivering Real-time Application Performance Without Breaking the Bank Traditional flash storage provided a much-needed performance boost to legacy applications. There is a new breed of real-time applications however that are demanding even lower latencies and higher throughput. Delivering a real-time…

Tagged with: Convergence, Flash, Next Generation, NVDIMM, Plexistor, Software Defined
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Briefing Note: Is it time to Hyper-converge Backups?

Posted on May 26, 2015 by George Crump

Convergence and hyper-convergence are two concepts that have proven to be very popular with data centers, allowing them to shorten implementation times and in some cases condense the IT stack to simplify operations and support. But these concepts have mostly…

Tagged with: Compression, Convergence, Data Protection, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyper-convergence, Replication, Rubrik
Posted in Briefing Note

Briefing Note: Asigra Converges Data Protection without lowering expectations

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

As we discussed in our article “Service Level Objectives What do RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?” enterprises need, and now are beginning, to demand a broad spectrum of data protection options to match different use cases. For example, the…

Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Convergence, Data Protection, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, LTFS, NAS, Point-in-Time, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Tape, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

Ten IT Trends for 2015 from HDS and StorageSwiss

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Eric Slack

In a recent webinar Storage Switzerland Founder, George Crump, and HDS CTO, Hu Yoshida, discussed 10 IT Trends for 2015. A theme of this list was the importance of “business-defined IT” and the specific technologies that are coming to support…

Tagged with: Big data, Business-Defined, Cloud, Consolidation, Convergence, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyper-convergence, Trends
Posted in Blog

Analyst Blog: What are Converged Infrastructures? Part 1 – Hardware Convergence

Posted on December 12, 2014 by George Crump

Every so often it makes sense to take a step back and attempt to define the terms that we in the industry use to describe the approaches we take to solving customer problems. One of those is “converged architectures”. When…

Tagged with: Converged Infrastructure, Convergence, Flash, Hyper-converged, Integration, QOS, Quality of service, Virtual machine, VM
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Converged vs Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Colm Keegan

IT organizations are increasingly coming under pressure to deliver business application services with the same speed and agility as their public cloud counterparts. The bottom line is if IT can’t be responsive to the needs of the business, they may…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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SlideShare – Is Convergence right for you? – 4 questions to ask

Posted on November 25, 2014 by George Crump

Data centers of all sizes are looking for ways to increase the return on investment on their virtualized (desktop and server) infrastructures. Converged infrastructures propose to increase ROI by reducing the number of layers, essentially combining compute, storage and networking…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
Posted in Slideshare

How does your Hyperconverged Solution store Data?

Posted on November 24, 2014 by George Crump

As we discussed in our recent webinar, “Is Convergence Right for You?“, converged or hyperconverged architectures can come in various forms, ranging from a bundle of multiple vendor’s hardware and software, to a software only – bring your own server…