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Primary Data provides Virtualized Data for Virtualized Infrastructures

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Colm Keegan

If Primary Data can do to data storage what VMware did to server computing, there could be a titanic shift in the storage industry in the coming years. Primary Data’s “data virtualization” platform is designed to liberate information from the…

Tagged with: Data Abstration, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Metadata, Primary Data, Software Defined, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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SlideShare – Is Convergence right for you? – 4 questions to ask

Posted on November 25, 2014 by George Crump

Data centers of all sizes are looking for ways to increase the return on investment on their virtualized (desktop and server) infrastructures. Converged infrastructures propose to increase ROI by reducing the number of layers, essentially combining compute, storage and networking…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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How does your Hyperconverged Solution store Data?

Posted on November 24, 2014 by George Crump

As we discussed in our recent webinar, “Is Convergence Right for You?“, converged or hyperconverged architectures can come in various forms, ranging from a bundle of multiple vendor’s hardware and software, to a software only – bring your own server…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing, Virtual machine, VM
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Is Storage Management Overload making IT less relevant?

Posted on November 20, 2014 by Colm Keegan

IT administrator “overload” is becoming the new norm for many organizations. Flat or declining IT budgets combined with accelerated data growth and an increasing demand for new business application services is putting many IT organizations in a quandary: How to…

Tagged with: Archive, Disaster recovery, Exablox, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Overload, Provisioning, Scale, Scale-Out
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Fiber Mountain’s Software-Defined Networking lowers Network Latency and Cost

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Eric Slack

Networks have historically been constructed using a hierarchical topology of rack and row switches connected into large ‘directors’ at the data center core. This architecture generates a number of ‘hops’ as packets traverse the network from edge to core to…

Tagged with: Fiber Mountain, I/O Virtualization, Infrastructure, IOV, Latency, Network Interface Card, NIC, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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WOS Access S3 creates Private Cloud with DDN Object Storage

Posted on November 17, 2014 by Eric Slack

Object storage was designed to support environments like the cloud that can have open-ended scaling requirements. Amazon developed the S3 interface to connect their object-based storage infrastructure to applications running in their own cloud. Now, enterprises can do the same,…

Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Hybrid Cloud, IaaS, Infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, NFS, Object, Object Storage, Scale, Web Oject Scaler, WOS
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SlideShare – Designing Cloud Backup to reduce DR downtime for IT Professionals

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Colm Keegan

IT professionals know that the ultimate test of the data protection process is performing a recovery; whether a single server recovery or recovering an entire data center. That said, we are all guilty of focusing too much on the backup…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Restoration, Storage
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SolidFire lowers Entry Point for Cloud-scale, All-flash Arrays

Posted on November 14, 2014 by Eric Slack

SolidFire is the all-flash array manufacturer that came to market with a scale-out storage system tailored for large-scale multi-tenant environments. These systems offered guaranteed performance, high availability, automated management and a strong efficiency story, based on the advantages that all-flash…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Capacity, Cloud, Infrastructure, IOPS, Multi-Tenant, Scalability, Scale-Out, SolidFire, SSD
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OpenStack as a Virtual Machine Storage Platform

Posted on November 10, 2014 by George Crump

Recently we sat down with Wim Provost, Product Manager for Open vStorage, for a podcast to discuss their new solutions that better enable OpenStack to run virtual machines. OpenStack is a set of open source software tools, typically used by…