Database administrators (DBAs) spend a large portion of their day optimizing databases. Do all-flash arrays eliminate that need? While in most cases, the answer to any IT question is “it depends”, in this instance the answer is an emphatic NO!.…
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Does All-Flash Eliminate the need for Database Tuning?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bottleneck, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, Optimization, SQL, Tegile
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Why Would You Put SQL Server in a Container? – WinDocks Briefing Note
There’s no question that containers are growing in popularity, and attendance at this year’s DockerCcon is evidence of that. But the bulk of applications that are moving into containers still tend to be stateless applications without the need for persistent…
Tagged with: Backup, Container, Containers, Docker, dr, Migration, SQL, WinDocks
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Webinar: Optimizing Flash Storage for SQL Databases
Is your flash system up to the challenge? For many organizations, Microsoft SQL is the heartbeat of the business and IT professionals are under pressure to increase performance, reduce costs and improve protection. Storage vendors will point you toward flash.…
The Challenges Facing Docker on Windows – WinDocks Briefing Note
Until containers support persistent storage that can be easily backed-up, their use will be limited to test and development. This is not to say that containers can’t bring significant value to the test and development world. It’s just that they…
SlideShare: How and Why to Containerize Your Legacy Applications
Agile IT: it is far easier to say than to implement. But data centers need to make the move to Agile IT so their organizations can survive the digital transformation. At the heart of these efforts are modern DevOps environments…
Tagged with: Application, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Hyperconverged, HyperGrid, SQL, VDI
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StorageShort: The Use Cases for Containerized Legacy Apps
The move to containers is not just for new applications anymore. Organizations that have applications written in Java or .Net can now easily containerize them. Even packaged application providers like Oracle provide official images to run components of their architecture…
Tagged with: Application, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Hyperconverged, HyperGrid, SQL, VDI
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Developing an IT Consumption Model in Traditional Data Centers
Organizations need to move from building IT to consuming IT. Sounds easy, but for a traditional data center, creating a IT consumption model looks like it requires a complete teardown and rebuild of the data center. A consumption model means…
Tagged with: Application, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, HyperGrid, SQL, VDI, Virtualization
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More SQL Server with Fewer Licenses – DH2i Briefing Note
The cost of a SQL Server license is quite high. This is why the typical method of deploying SQL Server in a virtualized environment can become exceedingly expensive. One of the advantages of virtualization is each database instance can have…
Webinar: Proving It! A step by step Demo: Containerizing Legacy Applications
Storage Switzerland and HyperGrid recently held a webinar entitled “How and Why to Containerize Your Legacy Applications”. It is one of our highest attended webinars this year. The number one request from that webinar? “I want to see this thing…
Tagged with: Application, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Hyperconverged, HyperGrid, SQL, VDI
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Legacy Apps in a Containerized World
It is hard enough to convince organizations to virtualize their mission critical applications, now IT professionals are facing the challenge of convincing their organizations to containerize those mission critical applications. Virtualization frees mission critical applications of being bound to a…
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