The below is an excerpt from our exclusive report, “Virtualization Made Simple with Hyperconverged Infrastructure“. This paper is sent immediately to anyone that registers for our live or on-demand webinar that will cover how organizations with limited IT personnel can…
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…
Most companies conduct some kind of video surveillance, typically involving a PC-based infrastructure they manage on-site. For many small to mid-sized businesses, operating and maintaining this infrastructure (adding capacity, conducting upgrades, etc.) can be a real effort since much of…
Most business owners don’t worry about data backup or recovery. But when a critical application becomes unavailable or worse, when the business loses data they panic. Data protection becomes a high priority and a cloud based backup solution seems like…
Private or hybrid cloud file sharing provides many business benefits over traditional on-premise network attached storage. It enables organizations to consolidate infrastructure and remove duplicate silos of storage from multiple sites and office locations. Cloud file sharing reduces storage costs,…
Storage professionals need a way to test and validate that new or proposed storage architectures will perform well in their application environments. Common storage testing “solutions” like ioMeter and Vdbench, however, aren’t going to cut it. While these tools enable…
The 5 Critical Questions to ensure you have protection against downtime How much downtime can your business handle before it starts to cause a real disruption to the bottom line? Studies show businesses of all sizes start seeing lasting effects…
In his recent column “DR-as-a-Service may be the Cloud’s Killer App” my colleague Eric Slack predicted that disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) will become the predominant cloud offering. I agree, DRaaS is almost too compelling for many organizations to…
Optimizing storage performance is almost an art. One of the earliest papers I wrote for Storage Switzerland was “Visualizing SSD Readiness“, which articulated how to determine if your application could benefit from implementing solid state disk (SSD). It also discussed…
Prior to the cloud era, most business information stayed on the corporate WAN. But now more corporate data traffic is going over the internet to sites like Salesforce.com, Dropbox and AWS. The problem is IT has limited visibility and control…
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