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Podcast: The Deduplication Myths of Flash Storage

What are the four myths of all flash in a virtual environment? That’s the subject of a webinar on StorageSwiss.com. But on this podcast we deep dive on flash and deduplication. Join George Crump as he talks to Tegile’s Chris…

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ChalkTalk Video: Must Haves for Next Generation Software Defined Storage

Software Defined Storage (SDS) has fundamentally changed the data center and holds great promise as organizations try to meet the performance demands of applications and users while driving down storage management costs. But the current generation of SDS needs to…

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Exclusive Paper: Ready for the Next Generation of Software Defined Storage?

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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