Many organizations have adopted a virtualize-first policy, where all new applications brought online are considered for virtualized deployment prior to getting their own bare metal hardware. But there are typically a number of mission critical applications that are still not…
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How Are You Guaranteeing Virtualized Application Performance?
Tagged with: Gridstore, Hyper-V, LUN, Quality of service, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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EMC ViPR Gets Defined
The next meeting at our EMC Briefing Day was with the Advanced Software Division. They are responsible for their software defined storage (SDS) solution – ViPR. We have written about ViPR extensively in the past but now that the product…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, EMC, EMC Isilon, EMCbreifingDay, ScaleIO, SDS, Software Defined Storage, ViPR
Posted in Briefing Note
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Hyper-V White Paper “Software-Defined Storage Optimized for Hyper-V”
An application owners’ primary concern is the performance of their application. While cost efficiencies and increased availability of virtualization intrigues them, they will not sacrifice a consistent application experience for their users. The key for Hyper-V and storage administrators is…
Guarantee Hyper-V App Performance With Hyper-V Software Defined Storage
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR – Click Here To Watch Now Microsoft’s Hyper-V is an attractive alternative to VMware and other hypervisors but maintaining application performance is still a key concern when virtualizing. The bottleneck almost always comes down to storage. Making sure that…
Tagged with: Gridstore, Hyper-V, Microsoft, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization Aware
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Maxta Briefing Note
Over the past six years, server virtualization has greatly simplified the deployment of applications in the enterprise. Applications are no longer locked into a single server and can be migrated to other servers, in real time, to satisfy dynamically changing…
Tagged with: Converged Storage, Maxta, Software Defined Storage, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
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The Democratization of FCoE
Let’s face it, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has not been the roaring success that vendors hoped it would be. Why? Probably the number one reason is that it was too expensive. Users expected FCoE to be cheaper, much cheaper,…
Tagged with: Ethernet, FCoE, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Hardware, IBM, Intel, ISCSI, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage area network
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Predictable Virtual Server Performance for Less
For many storage planners it is a daunting task to size their virtual storage infrastructure “just right”, without needless overspending. Indeed, this is becoming increasingly difficult to attain given the high degree of I/O workload variability that multiple virtual machines…
Tagged with: Cloud, Quality of service, SNW Europe, Software Defined Storage, Storage virtualization, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine, VMware
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Software Defined Storage Meets Software Defined Networking
Coho Data Delivers Scalable Multi-Purpose Storage Platform One of the challenges facing data centers today is the diversity of the applications they have to support. They range from the virtualized infrastructure, with its highly random I/O pattern, to the transactional…
Tagged with: Coho Data, MicroArray, OpenFlow, PCI Express, SDN, Software Defined, Software Defined Storage
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Accelerating Application Performance in the Virtualized Environment
Hyper-V, like any other virtualized server environment, puts specific strains on (some say it breaks) the traditional storage infrastructure. While a variety of designs have been created to address that issue few systems actually get at the heart of the…
Tagged with: Gridstore, Hyper-V, Quality of service, Scalability, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, Virtual reality
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