Data Centers are under increasing pressure to build infrastructures that are responsive to the application workloads of the organization. Understanding what a workload is and what its characteristics are is critical to creating a responsive infrastructure that can satisfy the…
After a rapid move from test to production, virtualization of existing servers in many companies seems to slow down. While it is true that most data centers have adopted a virtualize first philosophy, getting those older, mission critical workloads virtualized…
OpenStack is a set of tools for building and managing computing platforms for cloud data centers. Public cloud providers have widely adopted OpenStack, and now the toolset is working its way into the enterprise in the form of private clouds.…
VMware’s Storage vMotion is an invaluable tool to enable the migration of a virtual machine’s (VMs) datastore to another storage system. It is similar in concept to how regular vMotion migrates a VM to another host in a VMware cluster.…
Hyper-Converged Architectures (HCA) and Software Defined Storage (SDS) are two of the most talked about trends in the data center, and both are gaining traction. For IT planners sifting through the deluge of vendor claims about these two technologies to…
Infinio CEO Arun Agarwal sits down with Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and Charlie Hodges to talk about Infinio and how he’s trained his entire work life to run a start-up technology company. Infinio brings to market a fundamentally new architecture to…
Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) solves some important problems that administrators at small and medium-sized organizations face. When done correctly, it can provide a turnkey service that eliminates the need for managing a secondary recovery site and automate the process…
When IT professionals look to solve a storage performance or capacity problem the number of options available to them can almost be overwhelming. Trying to select the right solution to their particular problem seems almost impossible. They simply don’t have…
Hyper-convergence is the consolidation of the three traditional data center tiers (compute, networking and storage) into a single converged tier. The goal of hyper-convergence is to speed time to value, allowing new infrastructure to be deployed in a fraction of…
There are two parts to any cloud strategy; compute and storage. As discuss in our white paper, “Reverse Your Cloud Strategy” (register below), a cloud storage strategy becomes increasingly hard to justify over time. Cloud compute though is almost an…
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