Open vStorage has a new product that will allow you to run virtual machines right on your OpenStack Infrastructure. Storage Crump Founder and Lead Analyst George Crump and Open vStorage Product Manager Wim Provoost sat down with me in the…
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Storage Q&A: How to run Virtual Machines on your OpenStack Infrastructure
Tagged with: Block Based Storage, CEPH, Cloud, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Object Storage, Open Storage, Open vStorage, performance, Scale, Virtual machine
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Posted in Storage Q&A
Is Storage Management Overload making IT less relevant?
IT administrator “overload” is becoming the new norm for many organizations. Flat or declining IT budgets combined with accelerated data growth and an increasing demand for new business application services is putting many IT organizations in a quandary: How to…
Tagged with: Archive, Disaster recovery, Exablox, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Overload, Provisioning, Scale, Scale-Out
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WOS Access S3 creates Private Cloud with DDN Object Storage
Object storage was designed to support environments like the cloud that can have open-ended scaling requirements. Amazon developed the S3 interface to connect their object-based storage infrastructure to applications running in their own cloud. Now, enterprises can do the same,…
Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Hybrid Cloud, IaaS, Infrastructure, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, NFS, Object, Object Storage, Scale, Web Oject Scaler, WOS
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RackWare solves the last mile problem with Cloud DR
RackWare doesn’t see the cloud as another silo or a replacement of a company’s local environment, per se, but as an additional resource that enables them to do more with their existing infrastructures. The product is a management solution that…
Can NAS Scale to meet I/O demand?
Maximizing VM density is the goal as business grows and enterprise IT organizations scale their infrastructures to keep up – without breaking the bank. Dense VM environments are a more efficient use of IT resources, but they’re also more of…
Tagged with: Clone, Data Protection, Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scale, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
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You can do better than ioMeter and Vdbench
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…
Tagged with: Architecture, Automated Performance, Critical Application, Infrastructure, Load DynamiX, performance, ROI, Scale, Storage, TCO
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Picking The Next Storage Networking Protocol
The data center is under immense pressure to scale the infrastructure to support more virtual machines, more users per database and to deal with the capacity growth caused by big data. As they refresh their storage systems to address these…
Tagged with: CISCO, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Infrastructure, Scale, Storage Networking Protocol
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Storage Q&A: How can the Enterprise embrace Web-scale?
Enterprise data centers are looking longingly at web-scale cloud providers. They envy the cloud providers’ ability to scale rapidly so they can meet performance and capacity demands. They also envy the cloud providers’ cost effectiveness of the designs. In this…
Tagged with: Architecture, Nutanix, performance, Scale, Software Defined, Web-scale
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Posted in Storage Q&A
Storage Q&A: Is The Next Generation Data Center the “End-Game” for IT?
The next generation data center is here. Highly virtualized servers, extreme VM density, thriving on flexibility, low cost and efficiency. So that’s the thumbnail look at this new data center concept. Here to talk about it in a little more…
Tagged with: Efficiency, Integration, Multi-Tenant, Next Generation Data Center, Object Storage, performance, Scale, SolidFire
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Posted in Storage Q&A
The second Web-scale problem – can’t run Microsoft Applications
In our last column, we discussed one of the challenges that web-scale architectures face when the enterprise tries to adopt them: “The first Web-scale problem – too many parts”. As we discussed in our on demand webinar, “Web-scale vs. Enterprise…
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