The first generation of Software Defined Storage (SDS 1.0) was an important step forward for storage management, as it opened up choice within the data center while bringing some semblance of centralized management. SDS 2.0 takes the next step by…
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Virtualization and All-Flash Arrays, a Must Have?
Flash Virtualization Myth #1 – All-Flash Arrays are a “must” for Virtualization There are a lot of myths surrounding the use of flash and virtualization, in our on demand webinar we expose the top 4. One of those myths is…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Flash Performance, HDD, Hybrid, performance, Tegile, virtual environment, Virtualization, VM
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New eBook – The Guide To Selecting Flash for Virtual Environments
Overcome Virtual Flash Confusion Flash is almost tailor made for virtualization. It handles the random I/O profile of the environment with relative ease and allows for additional cost savings by increasing VM density. The challenge facing IT administrators is which…
Webinar: Exposing the Myths of Flash Storage for Virtualization
Flash storage has become the cure-all for the storage I/O blender created by the virtual server and virtual desktop environment. But the rush to flash has created a few myths about how to use flash for virtualization. In this webinar…
Overcoming the Biggest Roadblock to the Always-On Data Center
Believing in the Always-On Data Center One of the topics in our on demand webinar, “Making The Always-On Data Center A Reality”, is overcoming the roadblocks to the Always-On Data Center. In this webinar experts from Storage Switzerland, Veeam and…
Tagged with: Backup, CBT, ExaGrid, QOS, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Virtualization is Critical to the Always-On Data Center
The concept of an always-on application has been a reality for years thanks to clustered applications and add-on High Availability (HA) software, but meeting this expectation can be expensive and complicated. Expand the scope beyond a single application, to an entire…
Tagged with: Backup, ExaGrid, QOS, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Why would you buy a Storage System without QoS?
QoS (Quality of Service) is a topic that’s becoming more common in storage discussions, partly due to the rise of multi-tenant environments like public clouds. QoS puts management controls on storage resources, especially processing power, so they can maintain performance…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Consolidation, Hybrid, QOS, Quality of service, Shared Storage, Sharing, Virtualization, VVOL
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Briefing Note: Running VMware in Google/Amazon Clouds – Ravello Launches Inception Beta
There are two parts to any cloud strategy; compute and storage. As discuss in our white paper, “Reverse Your Cloud Strategy” (register below), a cloud storage strategy becomes increasingly hard to justify over time. Cloud compute though is almost an…
Briefing Note: Riverbed Hyper-Converges Branch IT
Branch offices are the front lines of business. They need to be nimble and more than ever must be connected. These offices also store a lot of data that needs to be shared with the corporate headquarters. While the branch…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Hyper-converged, IOPS, Riverbed, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Conventional Storage QoS falls short on VMware and Virtualized Workloads
An increasing number of storage systems are coming to market with Quality of Service (QoS) functionality that allows an administrator to guarantee and in some cases, limit the amount of storage performance that a VMware or other virtualized workloads will…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, IOPS, LUN, performance, QOS, Shared Storage, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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