Until containers support persistent storage that can be easily backed-up, their use will be limited to test and development. This is not to say that containers can’t bring significant value to the test and development world. It’s just that they…
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Storage Podcast January 2017 – HPE buys Simplivity and What Are Containers?
Join Storage Switzerland’s Analysts George Crump and Curtis Preston for our first live podcast of 2017. We will discuss the big news of the month: HPE buys Simplivity, update on the newest storage products and companies, AND provide a deep…
Data Center Modernization Still Needs Shared Storage
Organizations are increasingly embracing technologies like OpenStack and Docker so IT can become more agile, as well as be able to adapt to user or customer demands rapidly and cost effectively. IT’s new found agility, though, requires equal flexibility from…
#MeetTheCEO: ClusterHQ CEO Solves the Docker Container Storage Challenge
Containers do more than store big stuff on ships or trains. Dockers are more than a pair of pants. Both are new cutting edge technologies of that are modernizing data centers. But Docker Containers create a storage challenge. In our…
Docker Defined Storage
Portworx Briefing Note Docker is changing the application development process, but most data centers want to leverage the agility and efficiency of containers from development all the way through production. The move to production requires data persistence that keeps the…
Tagged with: Capacity, Container, Docker, Infrastructure, performance, Portworx, Virtual machine, VM
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MeetTheCEO: Containerized CEO DH2i’s Don Boxley
DH2i’s Don Boxley joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges on this week’s MeetTheCEO. Boxley founded DH2i with OJ Ngo five years ago. The company is becoming a leader in the Windows Server Market and is now enabling Docker like container…
Podcast: Bringing Docker-Like Technology to Windows with Container – How and Why
Docker brings efficiency to the Linux environment, allowing more applications to run on the same physical hardware via a container technology. Microsoft has committed to bringing similar technology to Windows in the future but what if you want to take…
Is your Storage ready for Production Docker Containers?
In a recent StorageSwiss survey, 40% of respondents indicated that they were interested in deploying Docker into production, as a compliment or potentially as an alternative to VMware. Docker containers are resource efficient and extremely flexible, which have lead to its…
Tagged with: Docker, Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Replication, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization
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Weekly Storage Podcast: Docker Storage Deep Dive and Common Data Protection Mistakes
This week we are going to take a dive into a “whale” of a topic…Docker. We are also going to sit down with Storage Switzerland’s newest Analyst, Joseph Ortiz, to get his insights on the most common data protection mistakes…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Coho Data, Docker, Hedvig, iXSystems, Micron, Nimble Storage, QLogic, Storage Consolidation
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Open Platform Docker simplifies Software Development Cycle
At VMworld we spoke with Docker, an open software platform designed to simplify the building, shipping and running of distributed applications. Similar to the way VMware virtualizes the hardware, Docker essentially virtualizes the operating system. This results in greater standardization…
Tagged with: Complexity, Docker, Efficiency, Operating system, Software, Virtualize
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