The backup and recovery process is complex and brittle. Virtualization has only made the situation worse. To meet the ever increasing demands of their users and application owners IT professionals have been forced to try a never ending parade of…
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Rubrik Addresses Age Old Backup Problems
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Container, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO, Rubrik, SLA, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
SlideShare: The Top 4 Requirements of a Docker Storage Architecture
Like virtualization before it, container technology will evolve from a DevOps initiative to an enterprise requirement. Docker is leading that evolution as it promises to bring greater efficiency to the data center than we ever thought possible with the virtual…
Tagged with: Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
Is your Storage ready for Production Docker Containers?
In a recent StorageSwiss survey, 40% of respondents indicated that they were interested in deploying Docker into production, as a compliment or potentially as an alternative to VMware. Docker containers are resource efficient and extremely flexible, which have lead to its…
Tagged with: Docker, Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Replication, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
ChalkTalk Video: Is More Flash or Spindles the only Answer to the VMware I/O Blender?
The VMware I/O blender is caused by multiple virtual machines generating random I/O at the hypervisor layer that bottlenecks storage systems. Adding more flash or spindles seems like the quick fix to this problem. The noise at the I/O blender…
Tagged with: Condusiv, Flash, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, SAN, Virtualization, VM, VMworld
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
Docker and Storage – Understanding Docker I/O
Designing a Docker Storage Infrastructure A recent Storage Switzerland report covered the basics of Docker and Storage; what Docker is and how it impacts storage. Container technology and Docker specifically places unique demands on the storage infrastructure that most legacy…
Tagged with: Container, Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, I/O, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
ChalkTalk Video: Navigating the All-Flash and SDS Feature Wars
IT professionals have more choices than ever to sort through as they try to make a storage decision. From a hardware perspective should they continue to use hard disks or should they start to move toward an all-flash data center?…
Containers vs. Virtual Machines
Which is Right for Windows Applications? Virtualization has allowed the data center to become more responsive to the needs of the business. As it has moved into production, however, virtualization has hit several walls and the scalability of the “one…
Tagged with: Availability, Container, DH2i, Efficiency, Hypervisor, QOS, Scale, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Webinar: The Top 4 Requirements of a Docker Storage Architecture
Like virtualization before it, container technology will evolve from a DevOps initiative to an enterprise requirement. Docker is leading that evolution as it promises to bring greater efficiency to the data center than we ever thought possible with the virtual…
Tagged with: Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
What are the Requirements to Consolidate Storage?
In the perfect world, a data center would have a single storage system. One that would provide high performance and high capacity in a single platform that doesn’t take up much data center floor space. Ideally, this system would be…
Tagged with: Consolidation, DRAM, Flash, Hypervisor, Infinidat, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Posted in Article
Briefing Note: Stopping Virtualization’s Double Tax
Virtualized Windows applications suffer from two I/O taxes. First, there is the tax of the I/O blender caused by mixing dozens of VMs on a single server, and then connecting multiple servers to a shared storage array that creates a…
Tagged with: Condusiv, DRAM, Flash, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, SAN, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
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