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What is SRMaaS?

Posted on February 18, 2020 by George Crump

To keep up with the capacity and performance demands, IT is continually adding new storage systems to the data center. At Storage Switzerland, we find it is not uncommon for an organization to have seven or more different storage systems…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Clear Technologies, Cloud, Hyperconvergence, IoT, ML, SRM, SRMaaS
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Webinar: Three Reasons SRM is Broken and How to Fix It

Posted on February 18, 2020 by George Crump

Storage Resource Management (SRM), given the growth in storage capacity, the increased emphasis on performance, and the number of storage systems IT is implementing, should be the most popular application category within the storage market. The reality is that SRM…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Clear Technologies, Cloud, Hyperconvergence, IoT, ML, SRM, SRMaaS
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Lightboard Video: What is SRM as a Service?

Posted on February 17, 2020 by George Crump

Storage Resource Management is too complicated, doesn’t provide a complete enough view of the storage infrastructure, and is incredibly expensive. As a result, most organizations count on vendor tools to capture storage data. Then they manually consolidate that data in…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Clear Technologies, Cloud, Hyperconvergence, IoT, ML, SRM, SRMaaS
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Data Protection Versus Hyperconverged Data Protection

Posted on June 19, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As applications’ data protection requirements become more unique, many enterprises are considering a hyperconverged data protection solution so they can “just drop in” a node to meet expansion needs. While at the surface this sounds like an agile and simple…

Tagged with: Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Retention, VDI, Veritas, Virtualization
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StorMagic Encryption Key Manager and KVM Support Briefing Note

Posted on June 17, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Cutting the Encryption and Hypervisor Taxes for the Edge and Small Data Centers Edge data centers are quickly becoming important hubs where mission-critical data is processed. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) poses an attractive architecture to serve these environments, but there are…

Tagged with: Encryption, HCI, Hyperconvergence, SAN, StorMagic, Virtual Instruments, WAN
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Why is Software Defined Storage Failing to Consolidate Storage?

Posted on April 9, 2019 by George Crump

After enterprises decide not to use the storage mainframe described in our last blog they often next investigate software-defined storage (SDS) as a means to consolidate their storage and reduce storage costs. With SDS, consolidation occurs at the storage software…

Tagged with: AFA, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Flash, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, Migration, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, StorONE, Virtualization
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Why SDN Should be Part of Your Cloud Strategy

Posted on November 7, 2018 by George Crump

Organizations are incorporating public cloud resources into their deployment strategies. The organization may have a cloud-first initiative, or it may use the cloud as determined by the workload but the reality is that an overwhelming number of organizations deploy in…

Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Why Does the Network Team Want SDN?

Posted on August 27, 2018 by George Crump

The network team has a lot invested in traditional networking and may resist the move to a software-defined network (SDN), but given the pace of growth and expansion of the data center, they may not have an option. The network…

Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Why Do Storage and vAdmin Teams Want SDN?

Posted on August 22, 2018 by George Crump

While it should seem like someone else’s concern, no other group within IT should want software-defined networking (SDN) more than the storage administration and virtualization vAdmin groups. SDN’s promise to all the storage and vAdmin teams is to perform their…

Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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The Data Management Imperative vs. IT Reality

Posted on June 11, 2018 by George Crump

Data management is hard, and with the massive growth of data this task is becoming even more difficult. But, data growth is also making data management an imperative. Organizations need to figure out a way to better manage their data…