One of the most important, recent shifts in enterprise IT operations is the migration of not only ever-increasing amounts of data to the cloud, but also the full complement of business services as IT begins to implement a cloud first…
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Overcoming Overprovisioning with Real-Time Scalability
Most data center administrators design storage infrastructures for peak load so when applications or users need the MOST performance or capacity, the system is able to meet the demand. The problem is that most of these peak demands occur occasionally…
Tagged with: Capacity, Overprovision, performance, Primary Data, Scalability, Virtualization, VM
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ChalkTalk Video: Provisioning Storage Network at Flash Speeds
All-Flash Arrays solve many performance problems that virtual environments face and mitigates the storage I/O blender. The problem is that after these arrays are implemented the time to provision networking resources to the array can take weeks. During operation, provisioning…
Tagged with: All-Flash, CISCO, Flash, Provisioning, SSD, Virtualization, VMworld2016
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ChalkTalk Video: Separating Storage Performance from Data Durability
IT professionals attempt to solve server virtualization problems by implementing an all-flash array on the storage network or by leveraging flash in a hyperconverged architecture. In both cases storage performance and data durability are bound together. In this ChalkTalk Video…
ChalkTalk Video: Overcoming the Cloud Privatization Problem
The allure of the public cloud may be wearing off. The theoretical consistent cost of the cloud has proven to be false. CIOs constantly complain about the surprise bill from their cloud provider at the end of the quarter. The…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid, Tegile, Virtualization, VM, VMworld2016
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Finally See what your VMs Really Need
Most organizations today have embraced virtualization technology because it significantly reduces the number of physical servers they need to maintain while providing the increased flexibility of an abstracted environment. While this consolidation of physical servers helps reduce data center costs,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Latency, Memory, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Primary Data, SLO, Virtualization, VM, VVOL
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Can Scale-Up Storage be Scaled-Out?
Is it possible to scale-out your scale-up storage solution even though it wasn’t built to do that? The only question is how you’re going to scale it out. Most methods of scaling (both out and up) add to complexity. So…
Tagged with: Capacity, Latency, performance, Primary Data, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Flash Memory Summit Video – Understanding Your Workload Before Flash
While flash can solve a lot of performance problems, storage is not the only reason that applications fail to meet the expectations of their users. Throwing flash at the problem will almost always help to some extent, but there are…
Tagged with: Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Infrastructure, SolarWinds, Virtualization
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Workload Mobility for Private Cloud to Public Cloud
CloudEndure Briefing Note Mobility is a key capability that data centers are looking for as they modernize IT operations. It is the ability to move any application or group of applications from anywhere to anywhere. But workload mobility is more…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, CloudEndure, dr, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Snapshot, Virtualization, VM
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Software Defined Data Center for Enterprises
HTBase Briefing Note The term Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) has been around for a few years now. But pinning down exactly what the term means can be a challenge as each vendor seems to have their own definition of…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, HTBase, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, QOS, SDDC, SDS, Virtualization
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