The “as a service” moniker is appearing everywhere. Everything from storage to compute to networking is now being offered as a service. More and more companies are opting to have service providers provide their core infrastructure services – as a…
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Does Networking as a Service Make Sense? – Datto Briefing Note
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Datto, dr, File Sync, Hybrid, MSP, Virtualization
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On-Premises, in the Cloud, or Both?
If you ever ask someone whether your data should be on-premises, in the cloud, or both, the answer is often different depending on the source. Cloud vendors think you should store all of your data in the cloud. Traditional storage…
The Storage Challenges to IT Agility
IT is under pressure to move to a self-service environment, where users and applications “order up” IT on an “as needed” basis. Behind the scenes the IT infrastructure is supposed to respond and adapt to those orders as they come…
Introducing DRaaS 2.0
When Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) was first introduced its advantages were immediately obvious to the organizations that chose to use it. Namely the cost savings in not having to equip and operate a remote DR site. But limitations…
Merging NAS, Object and The Cloud – Avere C2N Product Brief
As more organizations move to the cloud or plan to move to the cloud, in order to address challenges like the ever-rising tide of unstructured data, many are encountering various unexpected complications. Some of these complications are things like increasing…
High Performance Private Cloud Storage via Software – StorPool Briefing Note
Multiple classes of storage make up public clouds (Amazon and Google both have at least three tiers). One of those is made from memory like flash or even DRAM to provide high performance storage to compute intensive applications. Private clouds…
Tagged with: Cloud, DRAM, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, performance, SDS, StorPool
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Raising the Bar for Data Aware Scale-out NAS – Qumulo Briefing Note
Over a year ago, Qumulo released a new data-aware scale-out NAS solution designed to address what it considers a key weakness in scale-out storage – Increased data management complexity when adding nodes to the cluster. This means most scale-out NAS…
Controlling AWS with vCenter – HotLink Briefing Note
Many companies are finding workloads that are much more appropriate for the infinite scalability and cost predictability of the public cloud. They are also finding the public cloud to be an excellent disaster recovery and business continuity resource. The challenges…
Real-time Performance Analysis for the Hybrid Data Center – Virtual Instruments Briefing
The modern data center is hybrid – while most of its applications are still on premises, an increasing number are moving to the cloud. In addition, data centers find the need to increase scale and instantly adapt to changes in…
Tagged with: APM, Cloud, Hybrid, IPM, performance, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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More SQL Server with Fewer Licenses – DH2i Briefing Note
The cost of a SQL Server license is quite high. This is why the typical method of deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment can become exceedingly expensive. One of the advantages of virtualization is each database instance can have…
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