Consolidating storage into a single, or even a few storage systems is a big project. Once the project is complete, IT’s job is not over. The next job for IT is to make sure storage remains consolidated. Temptations to allow…
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How to Create a Storage Consolidation Solution That Lasts
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Hypervisor, NVMe, SAS, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, StorONE, Virtualization
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Using Proactive Change Management to Maximize Application Performance – SolarWinds Briefing Note
Application performance degradation can significantly drag on business productivity and the internal, as well as external, end-user experience. In the event that an application is not performing up to business requirements, it is important for IT to have effective change…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SLA, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Optimizing Storage Costs and Performance while Enhancing Planning with Resource Monitoring
Storage managers face the demanding task of maximizing storage infrastructure capacity, performance and availability, while also reducing or at least slowing the growth of storage-related capital and operating expenses. Storage array vendors are innovating to increase performance, uptime and utilization,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: 3 Steps to be a Storage Superhero – How to Slash Storage Costs
Reducing or a least slowing the growth of storage costs is a top priority facing IT organizations in 2019. In this live webinar with Storage Switzerland and SolarWinds, you will learn the three steps IT professionals can take to lower…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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What Can Storage Learn From Server Consolidation?
Storage consolidation projects are permanently on the IT project whiteboard. The process typically starts after IT realizes that their data center is overrun by multiple storage systems from multiple vendors. Storage Switzerland finds that most data centers have 5-6 different…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Migration, ML, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, StorONE, Virtualization, VMware
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Storage Programmability: The Key to the Software-defined Data Center
The terms “software-defined data center” (SDDC) and “software-defined storage” (SDS) are commonly thrown around, typically being associated with the abstraction of core infrastructure functionality into a common software plane that can then be deployed on low-cost, commodity hardware. This definition…
Why is Traditional Storage Consolidation Failing
The most common method for consolidating storage is for the organization to purchase a single storage system, hardware, and software, and move all workloads to the new system. The organization is in effect creating a storage mainframe. The challenges with…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Migration, ML, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, StorONE, Virtualization, VMware
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Using Software-defined Networking to Scale the IT Team
IT infrastructure must become easier to manage, to free up the time that IT managers are spending on cumbersome day-to-day management tasks that add little strategic value. To meet this need, automation and software-driven abstraction are becoming baked into modern…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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Fifteen Minute Friday: Will the Software Defined Data Center Ever Happen?
Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) leverage intelligent software to manage commodity hardware to create a flexible data center that meets performance and capacity requirements while simplifying operations and reducing overall data center costs. While the vision of SDDC sounds ideal…
Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Scale-Out, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined
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Webinar: Designing a Storage Consolidation Strategy for Today, the Future and the Cloud
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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