What is Your Rake Moment? There is a rake moment in almost every storage administrator’s life. A rake moment occurs when a storage problem takes them off-guard and forces them to scramble to resolve the issue. Like stepping on a…
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StorageShort: Server Virtualization, Storage and Rakes
Tagged with: Flash, HDD, Hybrid Flash, performance, SSD, Tegile, Virtualization
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Posted in StorageShort
Creating a Crawl, Walk, Run Approach to Archive
In a recent entry, “What Killed Archive?“, I discussed why most data centers don’t move inactive data from expensive storage to less expensive storage, despite a very compelling return on investment (ROI). The number one killer of the archive process…
Tagged with: Archive, Crossroads, Disk, Fujifilm, Recovery, ROI, Tape, Virtualization
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Posted in Blog
StorageShort: The Impact of Virtualization Intensity on Storage
From the moment that VMware started to move into production, it has strained the storage infrastructure. The impact of running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on the same server at the same time pushed traditional disk-based storage systems to their breaking…
Hybrid Flash Array Enables Local Government to Answer the Storage Performance Call
When virtualized applications experience performance problems, the complaints are always forwarded to IT administrators like Fritz Gielow. Fritz is the storage administrator for the County of Nevada in California, and he was having those “calls” come in too often. A…
Tagged with: Flash, HDD, Hybrid Flash, performance, SSD, Tegile, Virtualization
Posted in Case Study
Posted in Case Study
The Storage Requirements for 100% Virtualization
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…
Tagged with: Bare Metal, Critical, QOS, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Posted in Article
Rubrik Addresses Age Old Backup Problems
The backup and recovery process is complex and brittle. Virtualization has only made the situation worse. To meet the ever increasing demands of their users and application owners IT professionals have been forced to try a never ending parade of…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Container, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, RPO, RTO, Rubrik, SLA, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
MeetTheCEO: Containerized CEO DH2i’s Don Boxley
DH2i’s Don Boxley joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges on this week’s MeetTheCEO. Boxley founded DH2i with OJ Ngo five years ago. The company is becoming a leader in the Windows Server Market and is now enabling Docker like container…
Podcast: Bringing Docker-Like Technology to Windows with Container – How and Why
Docker brings efficiency to the Linux environment, allowing more applications to run on the same physical hardware via a container technology. Microsoft has committed to bringing similar technology to Windows in the future but what if you want to take…
ChalkTalk Video: Overcoming Storage Infrastructure Challenges
The modern storage infrastructure presents IT professionals with a myriad of challenges. Three challenges however top the list: reducing costs, creating flexibility and delivering storage as a service (SaaS). Software solutions like EMC’s ViPR provide IT professionals with the ability…
SlideShare: The Top 4 Requirements of a Docker Storage Architecture
Like virtualization before it, container technology will evolve from a DevOps initiative to an enterprise requirement. Docker is leading that evolution as it promises to bring greater efficiency to the data center than we ever thought possible with the virtual…
Tagged with: Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization
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Posted in Slideshare
