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Storage FAQ: The State of Flash in 2015

Storage Switzerland held a well-attended webinar with Tegile called “The State of Flash in 2015”. Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump and Tegile System’s Chief Marketing Officer Narayan Venkat review some follow-up questions to the webinar. Question 1: “What is the

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Storage Q&A: High Availability for Data Centers of all Sizes

SIOS Technologies and Storage Switzerland recently joined forces for a highly attended webinar. The attendees asked some outstanding questions about flexible HA and DR for virtual servers and cloud environments. Joining Storage Switzerland Founder and Chief Steward George Crump on

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Briefing Note: Platform9 brings Amazon Class Automation to Traditional Data Centers

For many data centers the most appealing part of the public cloud is the automated provisioning. Users or application owners simply define the type and amount of compute and storage they need and the public cloud automatically provisions the exact

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Storage Q&A: How to run Virtual Machines on your OpenStack Infrastructure

Open vStorage has a new product that will allow you to run virtual machines right on your OpenStack Infrastructure. Storage Crump Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump and Open vStorage Product Manager Wim Provoost sat down with me in the

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Set my Applications free – Achieving VM Mobility

Virtualization 1.0 provided an early taste of the value of application mobility by allowing the live migration of virtual machines to alternate hosts. But that mobility was confined to a single hypervisor, and for the most part a single data

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Storage Q&A: Is VM Customizable DR Protection essential?

Data protection is vitally important for your business. But not only do you have to protect your data, you have to have the right data going to the right location at the right time. After a recent video shoot with

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How to get MacBook Air VDI Performance at a Chromebook price

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) presents some real challenges for companies looking to replace their inventories of desktop PCs. It has to provide a desktop experience that’s acceptable to users and an infrastructure that costs the same or less than the

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The Virtualized Cloud Fabric

Many organizations are deploying multiple hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM in an effort to drive down costs. But this can cause infrastructure sprawl, hinder virtualized application mobility and impact the ability of an IT organization to meet SLAs. In

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