Briefing Note: Velostrata Many vendors and analysts have suggested that the hybrid cloud model is the best method for traditional data centers to adopt and leverage the cloud. But IT planners at traditional data centers remain unconvinced. There are simply…
VMware’s Storage vMotion is an invaluable tool to enable the migration of a virtual machine’s (VMs) datastore to another storage system. It is similar in concept to how regular vMotion migrates a VM to another host in a VMware cluster.…
Case Study: First National Technology Services Managed Service Providers (MSP) face an enormous challenge, they have to provide IT services at a cost and quality better than the customers they are trying to attract while fending off competitive pressures from…
Our ongoing MeetTheCEO series continues. Listen as the CEO of Key Information Systems, Lief Morin, joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges to discuss how traditional mid-market organizations can implement a hybrid cloud to solve a variety of business challenges as well as what Morin is doing for fun this summer!
Traditional backup processes were developed for local backup systems, not the cloud, and so were not designed to minimize the time required to complete backup jobs over a WAN. Most cloud backup solutions leverage this same technology, storing data locally…
Flash Virtualization Myth #1 – All-Flash Arrays are a “must” for Virtualization There are a lot of myths surrounding the use of flash and virtualization, in our on demand webinar we expose the top 4. One of those myths is…
For many organizations MS-SQL is the backend to many of their mission critical applications. The environment provides a cost effective foundation for an organization to develop custom designed solutions that drive the business forward. As MS-SQL has risen in importance,…
Seagate CSS (Cloud Systems and Solutions), a division of this long-time disk drive manufacturer, was put together to develop storage infrastructure solutions for the hyper-scale cloud provider and OEM markets, among others. More than just a component manufacturer ‘moving up…
Overcome Virtual Flash Confusion Flash is almost tailor made for virtualization. It handles the random I/O profile of the environment with relative ease and allows for additional cost savings by increasing VM density. The challenge facing IT administrators is which…
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…
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