Whether you are planning to upgrade your current storage system or getting ready for a complete storage refresh, today’s IT planner has more storage choices than ever. A key decision is how you will access critical storage services like volume…
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Webinar – Should Your Storage Be Virtualized, Software Defined or None of the Above?
Tagged with: File Share, Replication, SDS, server-side storage, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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Webinar – The Four NEW Requirements of Backup Disk For Veeam Success
Veeam and other virtualization specific backup solutions change the game when it comes to data protection. They provide the capability to backup virtual machines rapidly and repeatedly, thanks to change block backups. Second, they provide the ability to recover virtual…
Tagged with: Backup, Change Block Tracking, Recovery, SSD, Veeam, Virtualization, Webinar
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Storage Q&A: Is Virtualization Breaking Disk Backup?
Charlie: I recently sat down with Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst and Founder George Crump and Senior Analyst Colm Keegan to talk about one of our recent webinars; “How Server Virtualization is Breaking Disk Backup”. We had a large attendance for…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, ExaGrid, Recovery, Virtual desktop, Virtual Server, Virtualization, Webinar
Posted in Storage Q&A
Posted in Storage Q&A
A New Take on SMB’s and the Data Center – Podcast
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…
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…
