Most vendors are positioning SDS and Hyperconvergence as THE replacement for legacy storage area network (SAN) investment. They want IT to shove the legacy SAN out the door, which most IT professionals are reluctant to do. The result is data…
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SlideShare: Are You Sticking Your Head in the SAN?
How To Break “The Cycle” and Move To Hyperconvergence Traditional three-tier (compute, network, storage) architectures have served their purpose. In today’s modern data centers, is a storage area network (SAN) the best fit to support your virtualized workloads and cloud…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization
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Product Analysis: Data Center Systems’ Structured Connectivity keeps the Agile Data Center Agile
Often overlooked, the cabling infrastructure is the circulatory system of the data center. An organization can invest in the most powerful servers, the fastest storage and the most advanced switches, but if data cannot flow smoothly between them these investments…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Cabling, Data Center Systems, HBA, Hybrid array, Infrastructure, LAN, SAN
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
New Paper: The Post-Virtualization Refresh: Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?
With the move to virtualization well underway, the data center faces its most pivotal technology refresh in its history. The current architecture was designed before the introduction of virtualization, but virtualization has been adopted into that legacy architecture at an…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-convergence, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization
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Is the Three-Tier Architecture needed?
The traditional three-tier architecture – compute, networking and storage – has served IT well for decades. It was born in an era where the availability of these resources were in short supply and the cost to acquire them was very…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: Are You Sticking Your Head in the SAN?
How To Break “The Cycle” and Move To Hyperconvergence Traditional three-tier (compute, network, storage) architectures have served their purpose. In today’s modern data centers, is a storage area network (SAN) the best fit to support your virtualized workloads and cloud…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization
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Posted in Webinar
Is IP Storage DR leaving you Exposed?
As the world of applications explode, an increasing amount of critical business information is being passed between data center sites using IP storage. Most IP storage systems have excellent replication software built into them, but the infrastructure that IP storage…
Tagged with: Brocade, dr, Encryption, FC, Fibre Channel, IP Storage, QOS, Replication, SAN, WAN
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ChalkTalk Video: Is More Flash or Spindles the only Answer to the VMware I/O Blender?
The VMware I/O blender is caused by multiple virtual machines generating random I/O at the hypervisor layer that bottlenecks storage systems. Adding more flash or spindles seems like the quick fix to this problem. The noise at the I/O blender…
Tagged with: Condusiv, Flash, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, SAN, Virtualization, VM, VMworld
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ChalkTalk Video: VMworld Infrastructures – Fibre, IP Storage and the Cloud
The data center infrastructure is evolving. At the core is the Fibre Channel SAN, which is itself evolving gain speed and capabilities like 16Gbps bandwidth. Then there is the move toward next generation applications that often count on IP-based storage.…
Storage Infrastructure for a Data Center in Transition
Cisco July 2015 Briefing Note The enterprise data center is in transition, moving from a variety of scale-up applications and architectures to one where they scale-out. Scale-up designs are typically fibre channel based, where scale-out designs are usually IP based.…
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