Most organizations approach the cloud without a formal strategy. They pick a pain point, like backup and disaster recovery, as a starting point with the hope of adding more services as they become more cloud savvy. What often happens, however,…
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Understanding the Azure Hybrid Cloud On-Ramp
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, PCIe, QOS, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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What is a Cloud-Like Storage Experience for On-Premises Applications?
The public cloud is often described as “just a business model” that provides organizations with the ability to pay for storage and compute resources as they need them. If that were true then the public cloud providers could be easily…
Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Data Protection Versus Hyperconverged Data Protection
As applications’ data protection requirements become more unique, many enterprises are considering a hyperconverged data protection solution so they can “just drop in” a node to meet expansion needs. While at the surface this sounds like an agile and simple…
Tagged with: Container, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Retention, VDI, Veritas, Virtualization
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HiveIO Debuts Hive Fabric 7.3
More Proactive Infrastructure Operations and Cost-Effective, Granular Application Performance Acceleration Graphics processing units (GPUs), software-defined data center architectures, and more intelligent infrastructure management are important technologies that all stand to help IT professionals meet modern business requirements. These include ever-faster…
Tagged with: AI, GPU, HCF, HiveIO, Hyper-convergence, Hypervisor, SDN, SLA, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM
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Reducing the Cost of Scaling Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions start innocently enough. The organization starts with two or three nodes and initially it handles all their compute, and storage needs quite well. As the environment scales because of the growth of the initial workloads or…
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SSD, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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The State of Server Virtualization: Summer 2019
The “software-defined data center” (SDDC) is hailed by many as the data center architecture of the future – promising to bring new levels of hardware utilization and a simplified, public cloud-like user experience on-premises. Previously, Storage Switzerland detailed the key…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, DAS, Data Protection, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, QOS, SDDC, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM
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Hitachi Vantara Updates its Content Platform
Going Beyond Archive with Denser, More Intelligent Object Storage Object storage has long been viewed as an archive and long-term retention platform. But in the age of data-driven business intelligence, more frequent and more sophisticated cyberattacks, and data privacy regulations,…
Tagged with: Archive, Cyber Attack, Data Privacy, Deduplication, Erasure Coding, Hitachi, LUN, Machine Learning, Object Storage, RAID, Replication, Retention, Virtualization
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Why Azure Stack HCI for Your Hybrid or Private Cloud
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) consolidates several data center components into a single architecture with the promise of simplifying management and enabling better scale to meet the demands of the organization. Of these components, two of the most important are the hypervisor…
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, PCIe, QOS, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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The State of the Software-Defined Data Center
The concept of the “software-defined data center” (SDDC) emerged around 2012, and since then the term has been adopted by nearly all vendors and heavily debated by analysts. While some argue that it is nothing more than a “marketecture,” and…
Tagged with: Cloud, Containers, CSP, Data Protection, Scale-Out, SDDC, SLA, Software Defined, TCO, Virtualization
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Three Steps to Simplify Your Transition to the Hybrid Cloud
The hybrid cloud, whereby data and workloads can exist, be migrated and orchestrated across on-premises private and off-premises clouds, is by and large the end goal of most IT organizations today. One size does not fit all when it comes…
Tagged with: Axellio, Azure, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, SLA, Virtualization, VM
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