Thanks to an easy-to-measure return on investment (ROI) most data centers’ virtual server environments are growing rapidly. Many organizations have implemented a “virtualize first” policy, where all new servers are virtualized. In addition, legacy servers are being migrated to virtual…
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Scale Data Protection With Your Virtual Environment
Tagged with: Backup, Business, HP, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESX
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The Future of Backup is an Architecture Not an Application
While the applications that protect data have vastly improved over the last 20 years, they still often struggle to keep up with the technical challenges of data growth, shrinking backup and recovery windows and demands for greater disaster resilience. At…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Domain, EMC, Storage, Storage Switzerland, Top10-2013, Virtual machine
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The Benefits of Software-defined Server-side Storage
Hyperscale Data Centers, Managed Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers and large Enterprises all face a similar challenge; how to cost effectively scale their cloud/virtual infrastructures so that maximum return on investment can be achieved. The answer is to build scale-out…
Tagged with: Compuverde, Data center, OpenVMS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage virtualization, Virtual machine
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Server Side Caching vs. Raid Controller Caching
Caching is an ideal way to maximize an investment in solid state disk (SSD), especially in virtual environments where massively random I/O patterns are the norm. Caching provides an automated way to make sure that the most active data is…
Tagged with: Cache, Disk array controller, Intel, PCI Express, RAID, Servers, Solid-state drive, Virtual machine
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Any-to-Any Hypervisor Image Recovery
Hypervisor server diversification is becoming a key initiative for many businesses. In an effort to lower licensing costs by introducing competition for their hypervisor footprint, many organizations may be unwittingly taking on the potential burden of added infrastructure management, higher…
Tagged with: Acronis, Data deduplication, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Physical-to-Virtual, Virtual machine, VMware
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VMware Server Side Caching – Flash SSD or DRAM
Server virtualization has a well-documented problem; it creates an I/O blender that can bring storage networks and storage systems to their knees. The I/O blender vs. the desire to design increasingly dense virtual machine (VM) architectures has created a new…
Tagged with: DRAM, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Infinio, Solid-state drive, Virtual machine, VMware
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The Role Of Enterprise Backup In The Modern Data Center
Data has changed. There is more of it, it’s larger and is no longer all located on a single storage device in the middle of the data center. As a result backup, an already challenging process, is now reaching the…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, HP, NetApp, OpenVMS, Storage, TCO, Virtual machine
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Server Side VMware Caching Gets Smarter
Increasing virtual machine (VM) density is critical for organizations looking to continue to reap the ROI benefits of virtualization; the more VMs per server the more cost effective the virtualization project becomes. There is one primary roadblock to increased VM…
Tagged with: Cache, OpenVMS, Proximal Data, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware ESX
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Seamless Hyper-V or VMware To Amazon EC2
The pay as you go compute capacity of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can be leveraged by organizations of all sizes to dynamically respond to spikes in business. An ideal use case is to move less compute demanding workloads to…
Tagged with: Amazon, Cloud computing, HotLink, Microsoft, Servers, Virtual machine, VMware
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