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Open Platform Docker simplifies Software Development Cycle

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Eric Slack

At VMworld we spoke with Docker, an open software platform designed to simplify the building, shipping and running of distributed applications. Similar to the way VMware virtualizes the hardware, Docker essentially virtualizes the operating system. This results in greater standardization…

Tagged with: Complexity, Docker, Efficiency, Operating system, Software, Virtualize
Posted in Briefing Note

Good Migrations – Moving Data from SAN to SAN

Posted on July 18, 2013 by George Crump

Either as part of a normal storage refresh cycle or when consolidating storage assets after a merger, almost every data center will eventually need to migrate data from one storage system to another. The problem is that data migrations are…

Tagged with: Data center, Data migration, FalconStor, Migration, Operating system, SAN, Storage area network
Posted in Article

Should Your VMware Backup Use Agents?

Posted on July 16, 2013 by George Crump

Initially most VMware projects start off by leveraging the backup applications that were in place prior to the virtualization effort. Then, IT Planners realize that they need something more and they turn to VM-specific backup applications. But then they are…

Tagged with: Backup, Hypervisor, Operating system, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtual reality, VMware, VMware ESX
Posted in Article

Is All Thin Provisioning The Same?

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Eric Slack

Thin provisioning is a storage allocation process that improves the write efficiency of a storage system by enabling it to consume less capacity for storing a given amount of data. It is becoming an increasingly popular, almost commonplace, feature available…

Tagged with: Dell, Dell Compellent, Operating system, Provisioning, SCSI, Solid-state drive, Thin provisioning
Posted in Article

VMware Aware SSD Caching

Posted on August 31, 2012 by George Crump

While there are a number of software caching solutions each has potentially significant weaknesses. They are either owned by a hardware vendor, which can limit choice or they don’t fully support the hypervisor or guest OS that the customer is…

Tagged with: AutoCache, Cache, Hypervisor, Operating system, PCI Express, Proximal Data, Solid-state drive, VMware, VMware vSphere, VMworld
Posted in Blog

Feature Rich NAS for the SMB

Posted on April 25, 2012 by George Crump

One of the first, if not the first server that a growing business will get is a network attached storage server. As we discussed in our recent article “SMB NAS Requirements”, these systems should be able to provide several important…

Tagged with: File server, Network-attached storage, Operating system, OS X, USB 3.0, Western Digital, Windows, Windows Server
Posted in Lab Report