The modern data center is hybrid – while most of its applications are still on premises, an increasing number are moving to the cloud. In addition, data centers find the need to increase scale and instantly adapt to changes in…
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Real-time Performance Analysis for the Hybrid Data Center – Virtual Instruments Briefing
Tagged with: APM, Cloud, Hybrid, IPM, performance, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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SlideShare: The Five Problems Facing Business-Critical NFS Deployments
VMware, NetApp and even EMC are proponents of using NFS based storage systems to support mission critical workloads like virtual machines, databases and performance sensitive unstructured data. But in comparison to mission critical fibre channel, the tools to monitor and…
Is your Filer running out of Steam?
Filers can start out so fast and end up so slow. How is that possible? A lot of companies buy a new filer and run a few performance tests against it, and they’re happy with what they see. The problem…
The Problems Using NFS for Mission Critical Workloads
NFS started life as a protocol for unstructured data, then in the early 2000’s NetApp and Veritas started to position NFS as an ideal way to host Oracle databases. NFS was easier and performed admirably when compared to the more…
Tagged with: Fibre Channel, Latency, Metadata, NFS, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine
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Webinar: The Five Problems Facing Business-Critical NFS Deployments
VMware, NetApp and even EMC are proponents of using NFS based storage systems to support mission critical workloads like virtual machines, databases and performance sensitive unstructured data. But in comparison to mission critical fibre channel, the tools to monitor and…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Which Flash is Right for Your Workload?
There are two key inflection points for the all-flash data center; when the all-flash array is purchased and during day-to-day operations. The first is before the flash array is purchased. There are a multitude of flash choices available to IT…
Virtual Instruments Extends VirtualWisdom Capabilities with 4.3 Release
Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom 4.3 Briefing Note Today’s data center is dealing with tight budgets, demands for increased storage efficiency and of course higher application performance and availability. In the past, data centers addressed these competing interests by purchasing hardware designed…
Tagged with: Efficiency, Infrastructure, performance, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Storage News for Feb. 14 – Podcast
Here are some of the latest headlines from Storage Switzerland. Lead Analyst George Crump joins me on the podcast. Click below for links to the blogs on Storage Swiss relating to each story: Arcserve simplifies Backup with Data Protection Appliance…
Tagged with: Arcserve, Asigra, Catalogic, DH2i, Nexenta, Protection, Virtual Instruments
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Briefing Note: VI’s VirtualWisdom4 shows you how to Manage your Open Systems Performance
Virtual Instruments provides active system monitoring and management solutions that generate a significant amount of data to improve SAN efficiency and performance. But users need more than an abundance of information to effectively manage their environments. In fact, this profusion…
Tagged with: Analytics, Converged Infrastructure, Efficiency, FC, Flash Array, performance, SaaS, SAN, Software as a service, Virtual, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine
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Performance Management is Broken
Performance management in today’s data center environment is broken. Between physical server silos, virtualized infrastructure, storage resources and networking devices, data center managers have to navigate through a plethora of management interfaces to diagnose application performance issues. The lack of…
Tagged with: performance, Software Defined, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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