During Michael Dell’s keynote presentation at Dell World 2014 the CEO emphasized the company’s renewed customer focus and how they’re leveraging the 2 billion customer conversations they have every year. He didn’t go into how this number was calculated but…
SolarWinds Software provides end-to-end monitoring and management of the IT infrastructure from the storage system to the application server and the network in between. In this video from the Dell World 2014 Solutions Expo Floor we talk to them about…
Welcome to the new world of storage technology evaluation. IT planners are being overwhelmed with new storage solutions to help them solve old problems. Most of these solutions leverage flash memory to help them address challenges like randomized I/O, scale…
Open Stack and Open vStorage. What are they and why should you want to run VMs on your OpenStack infrastructure? To answer those questions, George Crump from Storage Switzerland and Wim Provoost from Open vStorage join me on the podcast. Click Here…
If you’re an IT pro who is wearing a lot of hats, simplicity is the name of the game. Virtualization technology has made server management simpler, but storage infrastructure management still lags behind. Converged storage solutions promise ease of implementation…
During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Is Convergence Right For You? 4 Questions To Ask”, we polled our audience and asked what percentage of their environment is virtualized. Over half of the respondents selected 25-50% of their environment is virtualized.…
Across many data center environments, business data and new applications are rapidly proliferating. In large part, server virtualization has contributed to this growth since it removes many of the logistical barriers for bringing new business systems online. And while there…
Just as virtualization created a huge change in the data center, we are on the cusp of consolidation creating major changes in how we operate our facilities. To look at convergence and examine if it’s right for you is Craig…
The best way to ensure data and application recoverability is to conduct frequent DR testing. The problem is that many organizations rarely, if ever, perform DR testing because it is time consuming, expensive and often it has limited value because…
Some manufacturers have developed converged offerings that make the deployment of server compute, networking and storage resources more streamlined by pre-integrating each component into a rack enclosure. While this reduces deployment time, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the ongoing operational…
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