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The Problems with Storage Performance Benchmarks

Posted on July 27, 2017 by George Crump

There are a number of storage performance benchmarks that provide a standardized way to compare storage systems from various vendors. The problem is there are few, if any, data centers that have a workload that is exactly like those benchmarks.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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SlideShare: 5 Steps To The Perfect Storage Refresh

Posted on July 24, 2017 by George Crump

An Independent Process for Assessing & Refreshing Storage Every data center eventually needs to increase capacity, resiliency, performance or the cost efficiency of its storage architecture. It needs to refresh storage infrastructure. The problem is that most organizations don’t have…

Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Hyperconvergence is Broken, Learn How to Fix it!

Posted on July 21, 2017 by George Crump

While hyperconverged infrastructures (HCI) offer rapid startup they lock organizations into a specific set of vendor compute, storage, networking and hypervisor configurations. And, as the infrastructure scales it becomes increasingly difficult to deliver workload specific levels of performance and data…

Tagged with: Datrium, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Scalability, Scale
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The Storage Refresh Needs to Become a Process

Posted on July 6, 2017 by George Crump

Times have changed. Data centers must refresh storage more frequently than ever. The organization wants faster application response to more sophisticated queries across more users. Or it wants to start a totally new endeavor, like better decision making driven by…

Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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What is The Hyperconverged Tax?

Posted on June 30, 2017 by George Crump

Hyperconvergence scales by adding nodes. Each node provides compute, storage, and network. The problem is very few data centers need these three resources at the same time. In most cases the data center consistently needs more of one of the…

Tagged with: Datrium, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Open Converged, Scalability
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Storage Problems Limit Hyperconverged Scale

Posted on June 12, 2017 by George Crump

Hyperconvergence has a real problem. It can’t scale. While hyperconverged architectures may be a good match for medium sized business, as the environment scales it’s “all for one, one for all” simplicity becomes problematic. As is usually the case, storage…

Tagged with: Datrium, Erasure code, Flash, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Replication, Scalability, Virtualization
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Webinar: Hyperconvergence is Broken, Learn How to Fix it!

Posted on June 5, 2017 by George Crump

Tagged with: Datrium, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Scalability
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Webinar: 5 Steps To The Perfect Storage Refresh

Posted on May 17, 2017 by George Crump

Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Data at your Service – Bringing Self-Service to Data Management

Posted on December 5, 2016 by Joseph Ortiz

The business environment changed radically over the last decade. Long gone are the standard 9 to 5 working days on a Monday through Friday business model. Today, businesses are operating 24/7 365 days a year. Operations are moving to be…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Migrate, Sprawl, VM
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