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…
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Briefing Note: Riverbed Hyper-Converges Branch IT
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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Why “Mostly” isn’t Enough in Backup – and what to do about it
Part time insurance is a dangerous thing. You need to be covered all the time in all situations. The IT professionals in charge of backup live this. Comprehensive backup is good insurance but a backup solution that leaves even one…
Briefing Note: Rovius provides the Mobility to realize Virtual Platform and Cloud Freedom
With the move towards software-defined infrastructures and commodity-based hardware, companies are getting used to freedom and flexibility in IT. They also expect that freedom in the cloud, including the ability to move between platforms, clouds and hypervisors easily as they…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Hypervisor, Protection, Rovius, Software Defined, Virtualization
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Podcast – Fixing fractured backup and bad DR
Zetta found in a recent survey of IT pros from a cross-section of companies that IT environments in most companies are a conglomeration of operating systems, platforms and backup solutions and that backup is a mess for most companies and DR…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, Protection, Virtualization, Zetta
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The Criticality of Cabling Infrastructure in High Performance Storage Networking
Pushed by initiatives like high density virtualization, online database applications and low latency flash storage, fibre channel (FC) storage networking is entering a new era sooner than expected. These initiatives are forcing the move to 16Gb FC networking at a…
Tagged with: Cabling, Data Center Systems, FC, Fibre Channel, LAN, performance, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: StorTrends Delivers Feature Rich All-Flash with Intelligent DR
As data center storage becomes increasingly flash based, the big debate among storage vendors is whether storage should be all-flash or hybrid (a mixture of flash and hard disks). Depending on the workload there is a case to be made…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, Replication, RPO, Snapshot, SSD, StorTrends, Virtualization
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Backup is a Fractured Mess and DR is worse – Can the Cloud Save us?
Cloud backup solution provider Zetta.net recently surveyed over 400 IT professionals from a wide range of industries, asking questions like what types of backups were being done, what operating systems were being protected, how virtualized the environment was, and how…
Software-Defined Storage – Over-Hyped or Overdue?
The interest in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is at an all-time high and data center operators want to know if now is the time to move towards this type of a storage infrastructure. In our latest workshop series “Software Defined Storage…
Tagged with: Infrastructure, Replication, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: PernixData FVP Software Pools Flash & RAM to Accelerate VMs, Complement SAN/NAS
Virtualization pushes traditional storage architectures to their performance limits, prompting companies to look at server-dedicated solutions, typically PCIe and SSD flash, to solve their performance problems. The challenge with server dedicated solutions, since they’re limited to the storage devices that…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Flash, Hypervisor, PCIe, PernixData, Protection, RAM, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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