The ultimate goal of a private cloud is to create a pool of compute, memory, networking and storage resources that allocate automatically to applications on an as needed basis. The cloud should ideally be 100% self-service and require almost no…
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How To Make Your Private Cloud Act Like a Private Cloud – Turbonomic Briefing Note
Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, Migration, Turbonomic, VDI, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Simplifying File Migration and Modernization
There are plenty of solutions that promise to help an organization migrate, or transform, data in the cloud era. The problem is most of these solutions are just too complicated and try to do too much. Most organizations simply want…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Dynamics, Migration, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Unstructured data, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Beating the VMware Tax – Maxta Briefing Note
The term VMware Tax was a derogatory description of a change in VMware licensing a few years ago that charged users based on the amount of vRAM they used. VMware, after public outcry, dropped that policy. The term is now…
Tagged with: Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, Migration, Virtualization, VM, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
What is the Two Tier Data Center?
Most data centers have at least five to six different storage systems from different vendors, increasing storage costs and management complexity. One potential solution is the all-flash data center, where all data is moved to a single all-flash array. While…
Webinar: How to Create A Two Tier Enterprise With All-Flash and Object Storage
The only problem with the all-flash data center is most of the data (as much as 85%) organizations store is not accessed in more than a year. Assuming there is a more cost effective way to store that data it…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
Hyperconverged Solutions Need Long Term Flexibility
There is only one constant in the data center – change. Change, at least in the data center, is good. Done right, it delivers more performance in less space while reducing costs. But some hyperconverged solutions are resistant to change,…
Tagged with: Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, SDS, Virtualization, VM
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
Hyperconvergence – Scale-Up vs. Scale-Out
One of the attractions of a hyperconverged architecture is when the organization needs more compute or storage resources, it simply adds another node. But hyperconverged vendors seldom talk about the downsides to this approach. There may be times when it…
Tagged with: Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, Migration, NVMe, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SDS, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
SlideShare – Showdown: Hardware-Based Hyperconvergence vs. Hyperconvergence Software
Hyperconverged architectures come in two flavors; hardware-based hyperconvergence or hyperconvergence software. Hardware-based hyperconvergence is where the hardware and the software are licensed together and pre-integrated from a single vendor. Hardware-based solutions look appealing on the surface – just plug them…
Tagged with: Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Maxta, SDS, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
Why Has SDN Adoption Been So Slow? – Pluribus Networks Briefing Note
The move to commodity hardware changed the way data centers scale compute and storage resources. The network, for the most part, is being left out of the movement. Once an organization makes a network vendor selection, it has very few…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commoditization, Fabric, Hypervisor, Open Network, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Switches, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Posted in Briefing Note
The Hidden Cost of Hardware Hyperconvergence
Hardware hyperconvergence is supposed to make the life of the IT professional easier by bundling compute, networking, hypervisor and storage software into a single bundle. To a large extent hardware hyperconvergence lives up to the hype, at least initially. But…
