Running a high-density virtualization environment on a NAS box is something many companies assume won’t work. But we wanted to try. In this lab test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an 8-node Hitachi HNAS system reached over…
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Storage Short: How to support 15,000 VMs on a NAS
Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Can NAS handle a dense VM Environment?
Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems have traditionally been used for the storing of unstructured data. As these systems have increased in performance and capabilities they are being used more and more for non-traditional NAS workloads, like databases and virtualization. While…
Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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HDS addresses the Mobility Challenge – for Users and IT
The watchword in IT and in storage, according to HDS, is “mobility”, as mobile users and mobile devices continue to impact every aspect of data storage, now and in the near future. At the Next-Gen Storage Summit, we spoke with…
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Mobility, Next Generation Storage Summit, Virtual machine, VM
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Can NAS Scale to meet I/O demand?
Maximizing VM density is the goal as business grows and enterprise IT organizations scale their infrastructures to keep up – without breaking the bank. Dense VM environments are a more efficient use of IT resources, but they’re also more of…
Tagged with: Clone, Data Protection, Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scale, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
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Webinar & Lab Review: Enterprise NAS for Highly Dense VM Environments
Can NAS Scale to Meet the I/O Demand? Can Network Attached Storage (NAS) deliver the performance that a highly dense virtual infrastructure demands? Do you want a better answer than: “We think so”? In this webinar we prove that NAS…
Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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StorageSwiss Take on the HDS Acquisition of Sepaton
Yesterday, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced they had acquired Massachusetts-based Sepaton, an established manufacturer of purpose built backup appliances (PBBAs) that use advanced de-duplication to shorten backup times and minimize backup appliance “sprawl”. The company will become a wholly-owned subsidiary…
Tagged with: Acquisition, Backup, Deduplication, disk backup, Disk Based, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, PBBA, Sepaton
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The Internet of things that matter
At the Hitachi Data Systems analysts meeting in Colorado, the company discussed some important changes in the organization and an interesting initiative they’re calling “Social Innovation”. It’s a unique approach to what’s essentially a big data problem (and opportunity). This…
The Evolution of HPC Storage Architectures in Commercial Environments
High Performance Computing (HPC) environments have unique characteristics and some unique challenges that make them different from ‘traditional’ IT environments. HPC usually means big analytics projects that involve lots of data, high speed processing and frequently a compute infrastructure that’s…
Tagged with: Big data, Business Intelligence, data storage, HDS, High Performance Computing, HPC, HPC project, open source software, Storage Architectures, storage infrastructure, White paper
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