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EMC Briefing Day – EMC Converges The Infrastructure With ScaleIO

Posted on December 5, 2013 by George Crump

Yesterday, Storage Switzerland was at EMC for a day full of briefings from various groups within EMC. First up on the agenda within the Emerging Technology Division was ScaleIO, a company that EMC acquired earlier this year. ScaleIO allows EMC…

Tagged with: EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Hard disk drive, Hyper-V, PCI Express, ScaleIO, storage solution, VMware, XtremIO
Posted in Briefing Note

Guaranteeing Application Storage Performance When Virtualizing

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Colm Keegan

It’s no surprise that traditional storage performance falls off a cliff in heavily virtualized server environments. Originally designed to interface with a limited number of hosts, legacy dual controller storage architectures simply cannot meet the I/O workload demands of multiple…

Tagged with: Business, Gridstore, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Quality of service, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage virtualization, Virtual machine
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Application Defined Cache Acceleration

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Maintaining consistent application performance has become increasingly challenging. While there are fewer physical servers to support in the data center, in many environments there are dozens, hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines (VMs) accessing the same shared storage resources.…

Tagged with: Cache, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Intel, Solid-state drive, SSD, VMware
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Hyper-V White Paper “Software-Defined Storage Optimized for Hyper-V”

Posted on November 25, 2013 by George Crump

An application owners’ primary concern is the performance of their application. While cost efficiencies and increased availability of virtualization intrigues them, they will not sacrifice a consistent application experience for their users. The key for Hyper-V and storage administrators is…

Tagged with: Hyper-V, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Switzerland
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Guarantee Hyper-V App Performance With Hyper-V Software Defined Storage

Posted on November 20, 2013 by George Crump

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR – Click Here To Watch Now Microsoft’s Hyper-V is an attractive alternative to VMware and other hypervisors but maintaining application performance is still a key concern when virtualizing. The bottleneck almost always comes down to storage. Making sure that…

Tagged with: Gridstore, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization Aware
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Accelerating Application Performance in the Virtualized Environment

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Eric Slack

Hyper-V, like any other virtualized server environment, puts specific strains on (some say it breaks) the traditional storage infrastructure. While a variety of designs have been created to address that issue few systems actually get at the heart of the…

Tagged with: Gridstore, Hyper-V, Quality of service, Scalability, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, Virtual reality
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Any-to-Any Hypervisor Image Recovery

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Hypervisor server diversification is becoming a key initiative for many businesses. In an effort to lower licensing costs by introducing competition for their hypervisor footprint, many organizations may be unwittingly taking on the potential burden of added infrastructure management, higher…

Tagged with: Acronis, Data deduplication, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Physical-to-Virtual, Virtual machine, VMware
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Multi-Hypervisor, Multi-Use Application Availability

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Colm Keegan

In an ever changing IT landscape, business owners and data center managers are finding it increasingly challenging to ensure that critical business information is not only adequately protected, but that the underlying system infrastructure is resilient enough to withstand outages…

Tagged with: Availability, Disaster recovery, Hyper-V, Multi-Hypervisor, Neverfail, RPO, RTO, Virtualization
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PHD Virtual Enables Low Cost, Multi-hypervisor Backups

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Eric Slack

Whether you’re just wrapping up your initial virtual server rollout or looking to shore up the data protection process, selecting the right backup solution for virtual environments can be a challenge. To address this, most IT managers have given up…