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Scale-Out Storage: The Advantages of Replication vs. Erasure Coding

Posted on November 20, 2018 by George Crump

Scale-out storage systems tend to protect data from media failure in one of two ways; they either use replication or erasure coding. Replication creates a user-defined number of copies of data, typically a minimum of three, as it is created…

Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Erasure Coding, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Replication, Scale-Out, SDS
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A Collective Hive for HCI – Maxta MxIQ Briefing Note

Posted on November 6, 2018 by George Crump

Hyper-converged Infrastructure (HCI) simplifies many things for busy IT professionals. As their environment grows, HCI automatically scales with it, adding performance and capacity with each additional node. However, an area where HCI falls short, along with many other storage systems,…

Tagged with: Cloud, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, Migration, VDI, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Using Machine Learning to Eliminate Data Center War Rooms – Virtual Instruments Briefing Note

Posted on October 31, 2018 by George Crump

According to Dimensional Research, over 60% of enterprises experience two or more significant application performance issues per month. In the modern data center, most users equate poor performance the same as application downtime. Performance issues, though, are usually much harder…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Hyperconverged, Machine Learning, Object Storage, Silos, SLA, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Overcoming the Storage Roadblock to Data Center Modernization

Posted on October 12, 2018 by George Crump

Organizations have tried a variety of solutions to regain control of their data storage infrastructure. They’ve invested in monolithic storage systems, software defined storage (SDS) and hyper-converged systems. While each approach may have brought some value, each failed in its…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Scale-Out, SDS
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Designing Storage for the Software Defined Data Center

Posted on October 1, 2018 by George Crump

The goal of a Software Defined Data Center initiative is to enable the organization to increase an organization’s flexibility by programmatically configuring and reconfiguring their environment with a series of software commands instead of interacting with hardware. The SDDC leverages…

Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Scale-Out, SDDC, SDS
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Storage vs. The Software Defined Data Center

Posted on September 26, 2018 by George Crump

The goal of a software defined data center (SDDC) is to enable an organization to leverage standard hardware to reduce costs and leverage intelligent software to increase flexibility by dynamically defining the data center as the needs of the application…

Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Scale-Out, SDDC, SDS
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How to Protect Applications Running in Google Cloud – HYCU Software Briefing Note

Posted on August 21, 2018 by George Crump

When they are migrating or creating cloud-native applications, organizations need to consider how best to protect those applications. Most cloud providers provide very good high availability but don’t provide robust point-in-time recovery capabilities. Recovery from data corruption, user error and…

Tagged with: Cloud, Corruption, Cyber Attack, Google, HYCU, Hyperconverged, Nutanix, Point-in-Time, Snapshot
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Webinar: Overcoming the Storage Roadblock to Data Center Modernization

Posted on August 14, 2018 by George Crump

Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Scale-Out, SDS
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Any Cloud Strategy Requires Understanding On-Premises Workloads

Posted on June 13, 2018 by George Crump

Is a Cloud First Strategy Right for IT? The cloud is a resource that most data centers are trying to factor into their future IT planning. Early adopters have found though that not all their workloads work properly, or at…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, Object Storage, Replication, Virtual Instruments
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SlideShare: 10 Reasons Why Backup Breaks and How to Fix It

Posted on May 8, 2018 by George Crump

IT professionals have been struggling to develop a consistent, reliable backup strategy since the beginning of the data center. Yet the more the data center has evolved, the more difficult the task of successfully protecting data has become. Now, for…