The software defined data center does not mean data centers are free from vendor lock-in. It just means vendors moved the lock from hardware to software. While the software may (not always) provide the organization the ability to mix and…
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iXsystems’ New TrueNAS X10 and FreeNAS v11.0 Briefing Note
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Hyperconverged, iXSystems, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SAN, SDS, SMB, Snapshot, VM
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How To Solve The Three Biggest HCI Adoption Challenges
Guaranteeing application performance, creating a cloud like consumption model and timing the simultaneous replacement of three data center architectures are the biggest hindrances to HCI adoption. Hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) promise to simplify a data center, making it more cloud like.…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Dell EMC, Dell World, EMC World, HCI, Hyperconverged, Latency, NVMe, Replication
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Virtual Instruments – Realizing Full Value of Your EMC Storage Deployments
One request I never hear from IT professionals is give me more tools. They are inundated with tools from every vendor in their environment. Every component in the data center generates data about how it’s operating. The problem is none…
Datrium Adds Data Protection Features – Datrium Briefing Note
What if you could have the performance advantages of local flash storage and the data protection advantages of hyperconverged infrastructure without the limitations of either? That is the goal of Datrium DVX, a unique product to say the least. We…
Tagged with: Compression, Datrium, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, Flash, Hyperconverged, NVRAM, Replication, Snapshot
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HPE Buys Nimble – What Were They Thinking?
Yesterday HPE announced it is buying Nimble Storage for a little over 1 billion dollars. That news took almost everyone off-guard and also brought the immediate, “HPE is crazy”, reaction. Instead of writing something up right away, I needed to…
The VMware File Services Problem
One of the challenges facing virtualized environments, especially hyperconverged ones is how to provide file services to their users because after virtualization users still need to share data. One method is to select a storage system for the virtual infrastructure…
SlideShare: Do Hyperconverged Systems Need File Services?
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) products have significantly grown in popularity in the last few years, leading many vendors to adopt a hyperconverged approach. VMware is adding to its portfolio a series of products that make its product more suitable to hyperconverged…
SlideShare: How and Why to Containerize Your Legacy Applications
Agile IT: it is far easier to say than to implement. But data centers need to make the move to Agile IT so their organizations can survive the digital transformation. At the heart of these efforts are modern DevOps environments…
Tagged with: Application, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Hyperconverged, HyperGrid, SQL, VDI
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StorageShort: The Use Cases for Containerized Legacy Apps
The move to containers is not just for new applications anymore. Organizations that have applications written in Java or .Net can now easily containerize them. Even packaged application providers like Oracle provide official images to run components of their architecture…
Tagged with: Application, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Hyperconverged, HyperGrid, SQL, VDI
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ChalkTalk Video: Modern Shared Storage vs Hyperconverged Architectures
IT professionals are inundated with new ways to deliver storage services to applications and users. Architectures like converged and hyperconverged seem to defy conventional wisdom, creating a new paradigm and server side storage. But the more things change, the more…
Tagged with: Brocade, Flash, Hyperconverged, performance, Realiability, Scale, Shared Storage
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