As IT attempts to scale Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), they realize the impact of the HCI resource efficiency problem. The selling point of HCI solutions is that they scale by “just adding a node.” Each node brings a fixed amount of…
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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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Lightboard Video: Data Protection and Mobility for HCI and the Public Cloud
Organizations are evolving their data centers to be more cloud-like. A significant component of these initiatives is to invest in hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI). Organizations are implementing HCI at multiple locations and, at the same time, are moving some workloads to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, HYCU, Hyperconverged, Replication, Snapshots, Sprawl
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Understanding the Problem of Unification in Most Software-Defined Storage Solutions
The promise of software-defined storage (SDS) aims to unify all of your organization’s storage assets through a single user interface. But that interface is supposed to do more than provide a single pane of glass for monitoring. It is also…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bare Metal, Container, DataCore, Fibre Channel, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, SDS, SMB, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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Overcoming the DRaaS Time Compromise
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) looks great on paper. DRaaS vendors tell organizations that they can eliminate their disaster recovery site and recover on-demand, in the cloud. The potential for cost savings abounds. Organizations have the potential to reduce…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Flash, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Hypervisors, NFS, NVMe, SDDC
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Purpose-Built versus Consolidated Backup
The number of data protection applications designed to back up a specific application or environment is increasing dramatically. These purpose-built backup applications have an almost unfair advantage over legacy solutions and customers seem more than willing to deal with the…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, Purpose Built, SQL
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New White Paper: Simplifying Multi-Cloud Data Protection
Organizations are already multi-cloud. They almost always have an on-premises cloud that leverages virtualization like VMware or Nutanix AHV. They also typically have some cloud-native applications or have the desire to migrate some applications to the cloud. Data protection continues…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, SQL
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Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing? Beware of Backup Software Claiming to provide Cloud Data Management
Organizations are already multi-cloud. They often have a cloud-like infrastructure on-premises like VMware or Nutanix. They may also have cloud-native applications based on SQL, SAP HANA or PostgreSQL. Even if the organization doesn’t have a cloud-native application, they may want…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Consolidation, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, HYCU, Hyperconverged, NFS, SQL
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Posted in Webinar
A Better Convergence for Converged Data Protection?
Converged data protection solutions attempt to manage all backup software and protection storage management operations from a single interface. These solutions also tend to be scale-out, addressing another big backup pain point, scaling and managing the backup repository. The challenge…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Converged, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Migration, Nutanix, Tape
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