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Understanding the Problem of Unification in Most Software-Defined Storage Solutions
The promise of software-defined storage (SDS) aims to unify all of your organization’s storage assets through a single user interface. But that interface is supposed to do more than provide a single pane of glass for monitoring. It is also…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bare Metal, Container, DataCore, Fibre Channel, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, SDS, SMB, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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The Time is Now for File Virtualization
One part of File Virtualization is a global file system that abstracts the physical location of data from the logical directory structure. Even though data may move between physical file servers or network-attached storage (NAS) systems, users continue to access…
Tagged with: Archive, DataCore, IoT, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, pNFS, ROI, SMB, Unstructured data, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Overcoming the NVMe-oF Blame Game
Non-Volatile Memory Express over Fabrics (NVMe-oF) enables shared storage systems to achieve very low latency, to the point that they can now rival direct-attach storage solutions. Organizations no longer have to suffer through the inefficiencies of direct-attached storage, standard in…
Tagged with: CISCO, Container, DAS, FC, Latency, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SCSI, Shared Storage, Virtualization
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VMware Storage Needs Intelligence and Awareness for a Different Experience
VMware continues to be at the heart of many data center infrastructures and will continue to be that heart for years, if not decades to come. Many of these infrastructures are still struggling however with the most basic of data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, HCI, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Latency, MS-SQL, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Key Management – The Dirty Secret of HCI Encryption
Edge data centers can be remote retail locations or offices, oil rigs, temporary command centers and even mobile data centers in the back of a van. Finding a solution that provides the performance edge data centers need at a price…
Tagged with: Cloud, Dell PowerEdge, Encryption, HCI, Hypervisor, IoT, Migration, SAN, Scale, Software Defined, StorMagic, Virtualization
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Why VMware Storage is STILL a Problem
Most VMware storage solutions attempt to fix storage pain points with a sledgehammer instead of a scalpel. While the sledgehammer approach does solve or at least mask some VMware storage problems, many still remain. More importantly, the life of the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, HCI, Hyperconverged, IOPS, Latency, MS-SQL, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Posted in Blog
Looking for a Better Hybrid Cloud Strategy?
When a company begins its cloud journey, they often assume they need to move everything to one of the “big 3” (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Compute). Many organizations want to maintain control of their data and leverage only…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Data Protection, Egress Fees, File Virtualization, IOPS, Madison Cloud, OPEX, Scale, Virtualization
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Answering the “Where’s That File Question?”
One of the biggest challenges users face, and the cause for significant productivity losses, is finding those files later. Where did they store it? What was the file name? The problem is bad enough if they store all their data…
Tagged with: Cloud, DaaS, DAS, File Sharing, FileShadow, NAS, VDI, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
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Protecting the Multi-Cloud Data Center Without Losing Your Mind
Multi-cloud isn’t a future architecture, it is a reality right now. Organizations have on-premises clouds (virtualized infrastructures) and are hosting applications in multiple cloud providers. The problem is the multi-cloud situation these organizations find themselves in is ad-hoc, not part…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Data Protection, DRaaS, HYCU, Migration, Replication, SQL, Virtualization
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