I just caught up with Eric Slack from Storage Switzerland on a webinar Storage Switzerland is doing with WD on May 21. It will cover SMB’s and the need to update or even build a data center. To register for…
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A New Take on SMB’s and the Data Center – Podcast
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Data center, Data Protection, SMB, Solid-state drive, Storage, Storage area network, Virtualization
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Why You Should Consider Server Caching for Virtualization
Many organizations are considering flash caching as a cost-effective way to accelerate application workloads. The challenge is virtual infrastructure planners need to sift through a myriad of flash caching options available on the market. One of the most popular flash…
Tagged with: Cache, Cache Acceleration, Density, DRAM, Hypervisor, Intel, NAS, performance, SAN, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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What to look for in flash accelerated software – Podcast
Are solutions that cluster server-side Flash and RAM a good thing for businesses that want to accelerate all storage IO workloads (read & write) while improving performance reliability? We’ll talk about that with Pernix Data. Read Colm’s Article, Choosing the Right Flash…
Tagged with: Flash, Flash memory, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage, Storage Architecture, Virtualization, VMware
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The EMC, VMware and Pivotal Federation
One of the major themes here at EMC World 2014 is the “Federated” platform. In essence, this refers to the collaboration and partnership for delivering a totally integrated next generation hybrid cloud computing (or in EMC’s parlance – 3rd platform)…
Tagged with: EMC, EMC World, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Pivotal, Virtualization, VMware
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The Next Generation Data Center – Podcast
Changes are coming to the Data Center. It will be highly virtualized with extremely high virtual machine densities. It will thrive on flexibility, cost and efficiency. To talk about The Next Generation Data Center is Jay Prassl from SolidFire and Storage Switzerland…
Tagged with: Cloud and the Data Center, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Scale-Out, Storage, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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What’s causing your virtualization problem?
– hint: your non-virtualized servers Watch Our Webinar on Demand “New Use Cases For Server Side Flash“ We all know about the challenges with server virtualization. The highly random workloads that hypervisors create can cause fits for the shared storage…
How do you cover Virtualization, Big Data, Cloud, Compliance and Software-defined Storage?
SNIA’s DSI Conference can help with all the hats you wear Things really changed after the financial downturn a few years ago. First, IT staffs got thinner at the height (depths) of the recession and people had to pick up…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Conference, DSI, Hybrid Cloud, SNIA, Software Defined Storage, solid state storage, Virtualization
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Choosing The Right Flash Storage Architecture For Virtual Data Centers
When effectively implemented, flash storage technologies can help remedy storage IO contention issues and deliver a performance benefit to virtualized applications. It is important, however, for IT planners to find ways of augmenting virtual machine (VM) performance without discarding their…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Converged Storage, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hypervisor, I/O, I/O Blender, PernixData, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Bringing Storage, Cloud Computing and Virtualization Vendors Under One Tent
Why IT Needs A Vendor Neutral Technology Showcase Many of today’s IT industry trade shows are hosted by the big industry juggernauts. While many of these events have value, the fact is, you’re only playing in their “World”. In other…
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