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Software Defined Hypervisors? HotLink Abstracts The Hypervisor

Last year the term, “software defined”, started to be used to describe how hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM could be used to allow IT to virtualize their entire infrastructure via the software hypervisor. There is software defined networking, software

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VMware Aware SSD Caching

While there are a number of software caching solutions each has potentially significant weaknesses. They are either owned by a hardware vendor, which can limit choice or they don’t fully support the hypervisor or guest OS that the customer is

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Preparing For Virtualization 3.0

Virtualization 3.0 is the eventual end-game for the data center. In this environment the host will become the ‘atomic’ element of the data center, with applications, storage and networking all centered on this single element, for the most part. Clearly,

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Your Hypervisor Is Hardware Independent

So Should Your Replication Solution Be Server virtualization changed the way the server infrastructure is deployed, managed  and maintained. It also changed the way servers were acquired. No longer was the user locked into a particular set of server hardware

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The Storage Hypervisor

Flexibility is a key objective for many data centers. They want to respond to the needs of the business without having to slow the business down. Flexibility like this is a primary deliverable of server virtualization and one of the

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Using NPIV to Optimize Server Virtualization’s Storage

Despite the economy, server virtualization rollouts continue unabated and in fact because of the economy there is increased pressure to optimize further the virtual infrastructure by increasing virtual machine density. This increased density puts additional pressure on an already strained

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