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The four steps to Predictable Hybrid Array Performance

Hybrid All-Flash Arrays drive down cost by mixing high performance flash with cost effective hard disk drives (HDD). Establishing predictable performance is the chief concern for Hybrid Array buyers. As long as data is being accessed from the flash tier,

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Webinar: How to make a Hybrid Array perform like an All-Flash Array

One of the toughest decisions IT professionals face when selecting a new storage system is deciding between an All-Flash Array and a Hybrid Array. Do you go with the predictable high performance of the all-flash architecture or the attractive price

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Running VMs on Open Stack with Open vStorage – Podcast

Open Stack and Open vStorage. What are they and why should you want to run VMs on your OpenStack infrastructure? To answer those questions, George Crump from Storage Switzerland and Wim Provoost from Open vStorage join me on the podcast. Click Here

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How Hyperconvergence can Hyper-drive Virtualization

During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Is Convergence Right For You? 4 Questions To Ask”, we polled our audience and asked what percentage of their environment is virtualized. Over half of the respondents selected 25-50% of their environment is virtualized.

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Nakivo Delivers Recovery in Place

Backup solutions that focus on protecting the virtual environment are becoming increasingly popular. Companies participating in this market include Veeam and PHD Virtual (acquired by Unitrends). But there is another company that is sometimes left out of the conversation that

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The All-Flash Data Center: Myth or Reality? – Podcast

We’ve heard about the possibility of an all-flash data center for a long time. But is it possible? Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump and Tegile Chief Marketing Officer Narayan Venkat join me on the podcast to preview an webinar

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Do Hard Drives have a place in the All-Flash Data Center?

When a data center makes the jump to all-flash arrays the impact is dramatic. Applications respond quick and IT operations become simpler as administrators stop spending hours squeezing performance out of hard disk bound systems. This means it’s “game on”

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Designing Highly Scalable Storage for Dense Virtual Machine Environments

We will discuss the testing methodology and scalability results for 4 & 8 node clustered Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 systems yielding 15,000 VMs in real-world enterprise environments. The test establishes linear performance scalability as nodes are added to the cluster,

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Storage Short: How Dense can a VM Environment get?

VM density is something companies are striving for as they work to lower the TCO of their virtualized environments. The question is, how dense can you get; how many VMs can your successfully run on each host? In this Storage

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Why a 15,000 VM NAS Test is important to all Users

In a recent test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an enterprise NAS system was able to successfully support 15,000 VMs. This is certainly an impressive number, and a performance spec that some larger enterprises may actually need.

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