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VMware Storage Problems Not Just Performance Related

Posted on November 25, 2013 by George Crump

A discussion about the storage infrastructure supporting virtual servers or virtual desktops almost always starts with a focus on performance. After all, solving the much talked about I/O Blender problem often takes center stage. But according to a poll conducted…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Information technology, Logical unit number, LUN, Tintri, Virtual machine, VMDK, VMware
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Is Legacy Storage Cannibalizing Your Virtualization ROI?

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst Server virtualization has delivered many benefits to the data center but one area that has become increasingly challenging is storage performance management. Legacy storage was designed to allocate disk resources from physical storage arrays to physical…

Tagged with: Storage Switzerland, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization Aware, VMware
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An Index into Unstructured NetApp Data

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Industry pundits continue to chronicle how the deluge of unstructured data (user files, images, PDFs, email, etc.) is overwhelming many data center storage environments. While applying the right storage technology to shore up data is important, having visibility into those…

Tagged with: NetApp, SnapVault, Syncsort, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware vSphere, vSphere
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HotLink Unifies VMware, Amazon Web Services and NetApp

Posted on November 14, 2013 by George Crump

Most data centers want to use cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) to compliment, not replace their existing data center operations. This may be for augmenting a disaster recovery plan, bursting computation workloads into the cloud to cover peak…

Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS, NetApp, Virtual machine, VMware
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The 5 Reasons Why Storage Is Eating Away Your Virtualization ROI – And How To Stop It

Posted on November 12, 2013 by George Crump

The initial return on investment (ROI) of server or desktop virtualization projects are impressive. The potential cost savings associated with eliminating dozens of physical servers or the reduction in operations time to manage thousands of user desktops, can be rewarding.…

Tagged with: Storage Switzerland, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization Aware, VMware
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VM-Aware Storage Improves Virtualization ROI

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Traditional storage was not designed to manage the high volume of I/O workloads characteristic of today’s multi-tenant VMware virtual machine (VM) environments. Consequently, many organizations fall into the trap of over provisioning storage infrastructure to help ensure good virtual application…

Tagged with: Hardware, OpenVMS, Quality of service, Tintri, Virtual machine, VM-Aware Storage, VMware
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Maximizing Value in VMware Caching

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Eric Slack

Maximizing the value of a VMware caching solution involves more than developing algorithms to determine the hottest data and figuring out ways to keep that data in the cache. It also means getting the most out of that expensive flash…

Tagged with: Flash memory, FlashSoft, OpenVMS, SanDisk, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMDK, VMware, VMware vSphere
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Predictable Virtual Server Performance for Less

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Colm Keegan

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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Accelerating Application Performance in the Virtualized Environment

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Eric Slack

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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Asigra – All-in-One-Backup – From the Enterprise to the Cloud

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Protecting data is becoming increasingly complex and fraught with risk. Today, business data resides on everything from centralized, virtualized server infrastructure to public cloud software applications, to end user mobile edge devices. Finding a way to reliably and efficiently protect…