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Storage Short: How to support 15,000 VMs on a NAS

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Eric Slack

Running a high-density virtualization environment on a NAS box is something many companies assume won’t work. But we wanted to try. In this lab test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an 8-node Hitachi HNAS system reached over…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in StorageShort

Webinar: Is The All-Flash Data Center Myth or Reality?

Posted on October 9, 2014 by George Crump

It has been said that if you could afford to build an All-Flash data center, you would. But can we really create the All-Flash data center? Join experts from Storage Switzerland and Tegile as we discuss whether or not the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Clones, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Return On Investment, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
Posted in Webinar

Set my Applications free – Achieving VM Mobility

Posted on October 8, 2014 by George Crump

Virtualization 1.0 provided an early taste of the value of application mobility by allowing the live migration of virtual machines to alternate hosts. But that mobility was confined to a single hypervisor, and for the most part a single data…

Tagged with: Cloud, CSP, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, MSP, ROI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
Posted in Blog

Can NAS handle a dense VM Environment?

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Eric Slack

Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems have traditionally been used for the storing of unstructured data. As these systems have increased in performance and capabilities they are being used more and more for non-traditional NAS workloads, like databases and virtualization. While…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog

Overcoming the challenges of Server Side Network Storage

Posted on September 30, 2014 by George Crump

Server side network storage (SSNS) is attracting the attention of many data center planners. It aggregates internal server storage and presents that storage as a sharable virtual volume. Virtual machines access this shared volume no matter what host they are…

Tagged with: Converged System, Data Protection, Gridstore, Infrastructure, Network Storage, RAID, Server-side, Shared Storage, SSNS, Virtual machine, VM
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HDS addresses the Mobility Challenge – for Users and IT

Posted on September 22, 2014 by Eric Slack

The watchword in IT and in storage, according to HDS, is “mobility”, as mobile users and mobile devices continue to impact every aspect of data storage, now and in the near future. At the Next-Gen Storage Summit, we spoke with…

Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Mobility, Next Generation Storage Summit, Virtual machine, VM
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Overcoming challenges when integrating Disk Backup Appliances with Veeam

Posted on September 18, 2014 by George Crump

How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup

There is a new breed of backup applications that is gaining acceptance in data centers of all sizes, including the enterprise: VM Specific Backup Applications. These solutions were designed from the ground up, with virtualization in mind and they do…

Tagged with: Backup, CBT, Changed Block Tracking, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, ExaGrid, I/O, Recovery in Place, Replication, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Storage Q&A: Is VM Customizable DR Protection essential?

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Data protection is vitally important for your business. But not only do you have to protect your data, you have to have the right data going to the right location at the right time. After a recent video shoot with…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Service Level, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
Posted in Storage Q&A

Can NAS Scale to meet I/O demand?

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Eric Slack

Maximizing VM density is the goal as business grows and enterprise IT organizations scale their infrastructures to keep up – without breaking the bank. Dense VM environments are a more efficient use of IT resources, but they’re also more of…

Tagged with: Clone, Data Protection, Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scale, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
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Webinar & Lab Review: Enterprise NAS for Highly Dense VM Environments

Posted on September 8, 2014 by George Crump

Can NAS Scale to Meet the I/O Demand? Can Network Attached Storage (NAS) deliver the performance that a highly dense virtual infrastructure demands? Do you want a better answer than: “We think so”? In this webinar we prove that NAS…