Veeam and data protection applications like it, arm data protection professionals with a new set of capabilities that they didn’t have access to in the past. So powerful are these capabilities that they can justify the acceleration to a 100%…
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Exclusive Report: Can your Backup Design handle Veeam?
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Replication, Veeam, Virtualization
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Why Virtualized Backup Design Matters
VM specific backup solutions like Veeam are increasingly being used to protect virtualized environments instead of more traditional enterprise backup systems. They provide a seamless way to non-disruptively and efficiently backup virtual machine data plus they include a number of…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Replication, Veeam, Virtualization
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All-Flash Arrays vs. Performance Management
Optimizing storage performance is almost an art. One of the earliest papers I wrote for Storage Switzerland was “Visualizing SSD Readiness“, which articulated how to determine if your application could benefit from implementing solid state disk (SSD). It also discussed…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, Server Side Flash, Software Defined, Solid State Disk, SQL, SSD, Virtualization
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The four quadrants of Virtualized Flash use
There is little debate that flash has an important role to play in the virtualized environment. Its high performance, low latency attributes make it ideal for data centers looking to solve the infamous storage I/O ‘blender’ that a dense virtual…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, Pure, SAN, Server Cache, Virtualization
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Webinar – The five ways your Backup Design can Impact Virtualized Data Protection
Virtualization specific backup applications, like Veeam, are the fastest growing segment of the data protection market, and for good reason. They promise to provide better, faster and more accurate data protection, while almost eliminating application recovery times. But the challenge…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Replication, Virtualization
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The Virtualized Cloud Fabric
Many organizations are deploying multiple hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM in an effort to drive down costs. But this can cause infrastructure sprawl, hinder virtualized application mobility and impact the ability of an IT organization to meet SLAs. In…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Service Level, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
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Performance Management is Broken
Performance management in today’s data center environment is broken. Between physical server silos, virtualized infrastructure, storage resources and networking devices, data center managers have to navigate through a plethora of management interfaces to diagnose application performance issues. The lack of…
Tagged with: performance, Software Defined, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Enabling Service Level Data Protection – Dell’s Backup & Disaster Recovery Suite
The standardization of server and desktop virtualization, the uncontrollable growth of unstructured data and the increasing importance of databases are forcing IT planners to face reality and rethink their data protection strategies. While they still need to use enterprise backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Dell, Disaster, dr, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Virtualization
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Controlling Storage Network Link Speed
Data center initiatives, like server and desktop virtualization, as well as the introduction of flash enhanced storage, have motivated storage managers to upgrade their storage networks sooner than they might have planned. But those storage managers would be wise to…
Tagged with: Brocade, Fibre Channel, QOS, Quality of service, VDI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
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Enterprise Backup or VM Specific Backup Software?
Most vendors seem to think that selecting which backup solution to use in the data center should be a choice of either an enterprise backup or virtual machine-specific backup solution. Enterprise backup provides legacy, multi-platform protection, but often only spotty…
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Data Protection, Dell, Hyper-V, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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