Traditionally, systems create data, process it, and then store it for a time before accessing it again in response to a user request. Essentially, data is processed in batches. In the modern data center, the move is toward real-time analysis…
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Creating a Real-time Storage Network
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, CISCO, DAS, FCoE, HCI, Hyperscale, NVMe, NVMe-oF, QOS, SAS, Virtualization
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White Paper: Storage Diversity vs. Storage Consolidation
The advantages of storage consolidation, better utilization lowered operational costs, seem like compelling reasons for IT to consolidate all their storage systems down to a single system. Why then is the data center becoming more and more storage diversified? There…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, MySQL, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Virtualization, VM
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Backup Software Needs to Provide Freedom of Choice – Nakivo Backup and Replication 7.5
Backup software used to be a conduit through which data moved from primary storage to some form of protected storage. Today though, backup software vendors are increasingly forcing customers down a pre-selected path. Vendors are now bundling their solutions with…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Nakivo, NAS, Replication, Virtualization, WAN
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SlideShare: The All-Flash Fix – How to Create a Hybrid Storage Architecture
The All-Flash Data Center was supposed to eliminate all storage problems and allow the application architecture to scale to new heights. The problem is data capacities are growing faster than the cost per GB of flash can decrease. Most data…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Tegile, Virtualization, Western Digital
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The Top 5 Reasons VMware Backups Still Break
Lack of Auto-Discovery Lack of auto-discovery is an issue for most backup solutions. As virtual machines and physical hosts are constantly being added to a VMware environment, many backup applications can’t auto-discover them. This means a new VM can go…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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SlideShare: Faster, Smarter, Simpler – The New Requirements in Storage Networking
IT professionals need a faster, smarter and simpler storage architecture. Organizations drive this need by deploying more diverse and demanding applications and services. Data is the very lifeblood of an increasing number of organizations. The consumers of this data need…
Tagged with: CISCO, FC-NMVe, LAN, Machine Learning, networking, Virtualization, WAN
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Webinar: What’s Breaking Your VMware Backups? And How You Can Fix Them Quickly
Backing up VMware successfully has always been a challenge. The introduction of the cloud ever increasing scale of VMware infrastructure continues to give backups fits and makes it even harder. Please join George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Next Generation Networks Are Faster
The modern data center is very demanding of its network infrastructure. Next-generation networks need to be more than fast. They also need to be smarter and provide deep insight. Speed seems like an obvious requirement, but there is more to…
Tagged with: CISCO, FC-NMVe, LAN, Machine Learning, networking, Next Generation, NVMe, NVMe-F, Virtualization, WAN
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Current Data Protection Infrastructure Is Broken
Some of the more sizeable shifts in the data center include the move from Mainframes to Open Systems and network computing, the move to client-server computing, and the move to a virtualized server infrastructure. Each of these shifts spawned several…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Encryption, Ransomware, Replication, Rubrik, SaaS, SLA, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Three Steps to Multi-Vendor Storage Excellence
Most data centers have given up on the idea of a single storage system for all the organization’s workloads. Organizations have decided to buy storage systems that solve a specific problem. The multi-vendor storage environment does have some advantages. Individual…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, MySQL, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Virtualization, VM
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