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How Can I Cut Storage Costs?

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Cutting storage costs is not a straightforward equation. There are many variable factors that impact the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a storage infrastructure. In this blog, we will provide a few things that IT professionals can do to…

Tagged with: CCPA, Cloud, Flash, GDPR, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, SSD, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, TCO, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: Designing a Storage Consolidation Strategy for Today, the Future and the Cloud

Posted on May 24, 2019 by George Crump

Most storage consolidation strategies fail because they attempt to consolidate to a single piece of storage hardware. To successfully consolidate storage, IT professionals need to look at consolidation strategies that worked. Server consolidation was VMware’s first use case. It was…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hypervisor, ML, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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What is the Distributed Cloud?

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Simply put, the distributed cloud is the intersection point of edge computing and cloud consumption. It is no secret that IT-as-a-service delivered through the cloud is continuing to proliferate, on the back of business requirements for greater IT agility and…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Hyper-converged, IoT, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, SLA, Software Defined, Virtual reality
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A No Compromise Approach to Software Defined Storage – DataCore Software Briefing Note

Posted on May 13, 2019 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) was supposed to displace legacy hardware storage solutions that locked customers into a particular vendor. Years after its introduction SDS continues to struggle to gain critical mass within data centers. Today most data centers, especially at…

Tagged with: DataCore, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, NVMe, SDS, Snapshot
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Bringing the Cloud Model to On-Premises Flash Storage – StorPool Briefing Note

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Legacy storage-area network (SAN) architectures are notoriously expensive and complex, leading many enterprises to consider migrating workloads off-premises. However, the public cloud model carries recurring costs that add up over time; with the growing petabytes of data that need to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IOPS, NVMe, QOS, SAN, SAS, SATA, SDS, SLA, SSD, StorPool, TCO, VDI
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Simplifying the Path to Open-Source Storage – SUSE Version 6 Briefing Note

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Software-defined storage (SDS) is growing in popularity as a path to achieving a public cloud-like experience on-premises. Among the key objectives in moving to SDS is cutting the costs and improving the flexibility of the storage infrastructure. Ceph is a…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, eDiscovery, Hybrid, IOPS, Migration, Object Storage, Open Source, SDS, SUSE
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The Next Generation of HCI: Intelligent Management and Multi-Cloud Support

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Dell Technologies World Hyperconverged Infrastructure Briefing Note Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is quickly spreading across core and edge data center environments. As it moves beyond the point use cases like virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) hosting, greater solution flexibility is needed because…

Tagged with: Cloud, Dell, Dell World, Dell World 2019, HCI, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Hypervisors, ML, SDS, Virtualization, VMware, VSAN
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Obtaining Data Agility Through SDN

Posted on April 25, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Agility is arguably the most valuable ability that IT can give to the business. The ability to respond as quickly as possible to changing business needs and market dynamics is increasingly driven by technology and most specifically, fast access to…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, IoT, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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How to Make Storage Consolidation Work in the Modern Data Center

Posted on April 22, 2019 by George Crump

Most data centers give up on their storage consolidation projects. The storage mainframe approach described in blog 2 is too costly and too restrictive, and the traditional software-defined storage approach described in blog 3 doesn’t support broad enough use cases.…

Tagged with: Deduplication, Hypervisor, Migration, NFS, NVMe, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, SSD, StorONE, Virtualization
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How to Avoid the Storage Refresh

Posted on April 17, 2019 by George Crump

IT professionals look forward to storage refreshes as much as they look forward to a trip to the dentist. In fact, the dentist may be preferable. There are certainly times where storage needs to be upgraded but IT should do…