Making sure a data center’s compute, network and storage resources are used efficiently is important. But making sure those resources are efficiently used in the cloud is critical. In the data center, finding a better way to balance the compute…
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Never Obsolete Without the Green
Recently, storage vendors started to promote a concept of evergreen storage. Essentially, the vendor will swap out the customer’s storage hardware with the latest, more capable hardware at some point in the maintenance contract. The problem is this swap-out is…
End to End VM Management Driven By Storage – Tintri Briefing Note
Organizations are experiencing unprecedented growth in their virtual environments and as they grow, maintaining a consistent level of performance becomes a major problem. Most enterprises combat this challenge by over-provisioning resources; they buy too much compute and make massive investments…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Hypervisor, Migration, QOS, Scale, Tintri, Virtualization, VM, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
How To Make Your Private Cloud Act Like a Private Cloud – Turbonomic Briefing Note
The ultimate goal of a private cloud is to create a pool of compute, memory, networking and storage resources that allocate automatically to applications on an as needed basis. The cloud should ideally be 100% self-service and require almost no…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, Migration, Turbonomic, VDI, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
IT Needs A Different Reason To Buy Tape
With the release of LTO-8 Tape media and hardware vendors are once again boasting about how affordable it is to store data on tape. With a compressed capacity of 30TB per tape, they are right in doing so. At Storage…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, LTO, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Scale, Tape
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Amazon RE:Invent is for Storage Professionals
Amazon RE:Invent is right around the corner, and Storage Switzerland will be there for the first time shooting our famous ChalkTalk Videos and attending various analyst meetings and vendor briefings. Amazon AWS’ various storage offerings deserve serious consideration for storage…
Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Archive, Avere, AWS, Backup, Cloud, dr, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, SMB, SwiftStack
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Seven Storage Mistakes Data Centers Make During a Merger
Mergers and acquisitions are commonplace in today’s business climate. A key aspect of one of these transactions is how to combine the IT infrastructures of the two organizations. IT plays a critical role in making sure the combination is more…
Tagged with: Cloud, Migration, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Redundancy, Replication, SDN, Tape, WAN
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Simplifying File Migration and Modernization
There are plenty of solutions that promise to help an organization migrate, or transform, data in the cloud era. The problem is most of these solutions are just too complicated and try to do too much. Most organizations simply want…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Dynamics, Migration, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Real Time SAN Analytics, No TAPs – Virtual Instruments & Cisco Briefing Note
Capturing real time analytics from the storage area network is important to optimizing the network. However, the rapid adoption of flash technology makes it even more critical. The problem is capturing information in real time typically involves using TAPs. A…
Tagged with: ASIC, CISCO, Cloud, Flash, Migration, Object Storage, SAN, TAP, Virtual Instruments
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Beating the VMware Tax – Maxta Briefing Note
The term VMware Tax was a derogatory description of a change in VMware licensing a few years ago that charged users based on the amount of vRAM they used. VMware, after public outcry, dropped that policy. The term is now…
Tagged with: Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, Migration, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Posted in Briefing Note
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