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Strategies for Managing the Performance Impacts of Data Efficiency in Hyperconverged Systems
The dramatic growth of data continues. To help solve the problems associated with that growth, vendors are coming up with new technologies that will not only maximize storage capacity but also improve performance. These techniques include thin provisioning, writeable snapshots…
Tagged with: Compression, CPU, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Metadata, SimpliVity, Thin provisioning, VM
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The Post-Virtualization Refresh: Is Hyperconvergence the Answer?
Hyperconvergence has seen significant uptake in the last two years, driven by its simplification of IT infrastructure. It reduces the need to manage discrete devices or have specialized training in component-level technology, such as storage area networks (SANs); makes operations…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, SAN, SimpliVity, Virtualization, WAN
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SimpliVity – Stepping up to the Hyperconverged Challenge
This week Storage Switzerland attended SimpliVity’s first analyst and influencer day. The event provided the company with a chance to impress the press and analysts on the capabilities of the product, gave a glimpse into upcoming capabilities, and provided a…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Metadata, performance, SimpliVity
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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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The Time Cost of a Storage Refresh
For most data centers, periodic storage refreshes are a way of life. Many times, the storage vendor causes the refresh by pricing out-year maintenance renewals to the point that it is more cost effective to buy a new system than…
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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Hyper-convergence, from Hype to Maturity
Hyper-converged architectures are solutions that leverage virtualization to support a software stack that aggregates storage and networking across compute nodes, converging these resources into a single stack. These solutions and their potential have been the focus of a lot of…
Tagged with: Architecture, Data Protection, Hyper-converged, Recovery, SimpliVity, Virtualization, VM
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