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VMware Storage Challenges
VMware storage challenges are the limiting factor in how thoroughly organizations adopt it. Learn what they are and how to fix them.
Scale-Out HCI is not Enough
Scale-out is the primary focus of most hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI), but scale-out HCI is not enough to deliver a more cost-effective and easier-to-operate data center. HCI vendors claim to offer scale-out by adding nodes to increase computing power, networking bandwidth,…
Lightboard Video: 5 Essential Storage Needs for Global 1000 Cloud Deployments
As the large enterprises look to the cloud to deliver agility and remove complexity and cost, data requirements and storage infrastructure often stands right in the way of achieving organizational goals. To get storage out of the way so IT…
Tagged with: AI, Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HCI, HDD, Hyperconverged, ML, Scale-Out, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined
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How to Make HCI Work Like the Cloud
Increasingly, organizations are looking to hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) to simplify their on-premises architectures to make them more cloud-like. Obvious considerations for IT professionals looking to move to HCI are Cisco HyperFlex, Dell EMC, Nutanix, and VMware HCI. This writeup is…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, LUN, Redundancy, VM, VSAN
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Overcoming HCI Transition Problems
As they consider a potential transition to a hyperconverged architecture (HCI), organizations need to decide how to migrate data to the HCI platform. They also need to decide what to do with their legacy storage infrastructure that still will be…
Tagged with: Cloud, DataCore, Encryption, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, SAN, SDS, Snapshot
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Integrating On-Premises SDN with Cloud VPC
One of the best examples of software defined networking (SDN) in action is in the cloud. When organizations use compute and storage resources from Amazon, Google and Microsoft clouds they don’t get to go into those data centers and configure…
Tagged with: Analytics, Big Switch, Cloud, Containers, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, SDN
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15 Minute Webinar: Do You Really Need to Consolidate Backup?
IT Professionals have been on a life-long mission to find a backup solution that can do everything. The goal is to back up the entire data center to a single backup target, all controlled by a single application. Is it…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Data Privacy, Deduplication, eDiscovery, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Replication, Snapshots, Sprawl
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VMware Storage Needs Intelligence and Awareness for a Different Experience
VMware continues to be at the heart of many data center infrastructures and will continue to be that heart for years, if not decades to come. Many of these infrastructures are still struggling however with the most basic of data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, HCI, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Latency, MS-SQL, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Key Management – The Dirty Secret of HCI Encryption
Edge data centers can be remote retail locations or offices, oil rigs, temporary command centers and even mobile data centers in the back of a van. Finding a solution that provides the performance edge data centers need at a price…
Tagged with: Cloud, Dell PowerEdge, Encryption, HCI, Hypervisor, IoT, Migration, SAN, Scale, Software Defined, StorMagic, Virtualization
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