One of the key challenges facing administrators is how to deal with storage sprawl, especially in the VMware era. Virtualization of servers and desktops has led to IT administrators being forced to throw hardware at the problem. It is not…
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MS-SQL Admins – Step Up and Smell the Container
Container technologies like Docker are capturing a lot of headlines in IT circles right now. They provide a greater level of granularity than a virtual machine, creating a more portable and flexible environment. The problem is that most of the…
Docker and Storage – Understanding Docker I/O
Designing a Docker Storage Infrastructure A recent Storage Switzerland report covered the basics of Docker and Storage; what Docker is and how it impacts storage. Container technology and Docker specifically places unique demands on the storage infrastructure that most legacy…
Tagged with: Container, Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, I/O, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization, VM
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ChalkTalk Video: Navigating the All-Flash and SDS Feature Wars
IT professionals have more choices than ever to sort through as they try to make a storage decision. From a hardware perspective should they continue to use hard disks or should they start to move toward an all-flash data center?…
Is Software-Defined Storage Enough?
Initiatives like server virtualization, cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, and real-time analytics are allowing IT to meet today’s ever-increasing business demands. These initiatives are designed to bring agility to the data center, yet they trip and fall when they have to interact with…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Fragmentation, Hyper-converged, NAS, Primary Data, SDS, SLO, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Virtualization
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Can HPC Storage Solve Enterprise Data Management Issues?
High-Performance Compute (HPC) and the storage infrastructure that supports it has long been considered a realm unto itself. Enterprise IT would have nothing to do with it. However, in the past decade, massive I/O bottlenecks have emerged throughout IT infrastructure…
Tagged with: Backup, Clone, DataDirect Networks, DDN, HPC, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot, Virtualization
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Containers vs. Virtual Machines
Which is Right for Windows Applications? Virtualization has allowed the data center to become more responsive to the needs of the business. As it has moved into production, however, virtualization has hit several walls and the scalability of the “one…
Tagged with: Availability, Container, DH2i, Efficiency, Hypervisor, QOS, Scale, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: 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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MeetTheCEO: Infinio’s Arun Agarwal
Infinio CEO Arun Agarwal sits down with Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and Charlie Hodges to talk about Infinio and how he’s trained his entire work life to run a start-up technology company. Infinio brings to market a fundamentally new architecture to…
Reining in Runaway Data Sprawl
Briefing Note: Komprise Data Management Solution As anyone who has been in IT for a while knows, modern organizations are swamped by what has been called a “tsunami of data.” Various industry sources have indicated that data is more than…
Tagged with: Cloud, IoT, Komprise, SaaS, Storage Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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