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VDI will eat your Storage System – and what to do about it

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Eric Slack

As we’ve mentioned in previous columns, in order for a VDI project to have any chance of success it has to deliver at least the same computing experience users had prior to their desktop being virtualized. That makes sense, but…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Compression, Cost Effective, Deduplication, Desktop Density, Disaster recovery, IBM, ILIO, VDI, Virtual desktop
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Atlantis and IBM help solve VDI Catch 22

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Eric Slack

Successful VDI deployments must satisfy three groups within the enterprise: 1) users, who want the same experience they had with their desktop PCs; 2) IT managers, who want to simplify operations and reduce risk; and 3) the CFO, who wants…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Compression, Cost Effective, Deduplication, Desktop Density, Disaster recovery, IBM, ILIO, VDI, Virtual desktop
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Three Ways To Improve Software Defined Storage

Posted on February 11, 2014 by George Crump

Hyper-converged Storage may be the purest form of the software defined storage (SDS) concept, as it runs storage services as a virtual machine within the customer infrastructure. This new take on storage architectures collapses the traditional compute, storage and networking…

Tagged with: Architecture, Atlantis, Hyper-converged, ILIO, In-memory, Optimize, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine
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Solving the VDI Storage Contradiction

Posted on February 27, 2013 by George Crump

While 2013 may not be the “year” of desktop virtualization, it is certainly a year where interest is increasing rapidly and real-world production deployments are beginning to occur. A key part of the success of a VDI project is the…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Desktop virtualization, ILIO, VDI, Virtual desktop, VirtualBox, VMware
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