The I/O Blender has reached an almost legendary status in virtualization circles. It is a term for what happens to storage I/O when in a virtual infrastructure. The I/O Blender is created when potentially hundreds of virtual machines across dozens…
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How Do I Know My Virtual Environment is Ready For SSD?
Tagged with: CPU, Flash, IOPS, LUN, SolarWinds, SSD, Utilization, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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The New Normal: Software-Defined WAN Acceleration for a Cloud-Centric World
Wide area network (WAN) acceleration technology has been successfully used by many organizations for over a decade to accelerate data traffic between data centers and branch offices. Typically deployed as an appliance, WAN accelerators help to ensure the timely transmission…
Tagged with: Acceleration, Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Center Sprawl, Hypervisor, Silver Peak, Software Defined, Virtual machine, Virtualization, WAN
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How Are You Guaranteeing Virtualized Application Performance?
Many organizations have adopted a virtualize-first policy, where all new applications brought online are considered for virtualized deployment prior to getting their own bare metal hardware. But there are typically a number of mission critical applications that are still not…
Tagged with: Gridstore, Hyper-V, LUN, Quality of service, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Maxta Briefing Note
Over the past six years, server virtualization has greatly simplified the deployment of applications in the enterprise. Applications are no longer locked into a single server and can be migrated to other servers, in real time, to satisfy dynamically changing…
Tagged with: Converged Storage, Maxta, Software Defined Storage, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
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Deciding On The Right Flash Storage For High Density Virtual Infrastructures
Dramatic increases in the number of VMs per host allows for greater ROI and TCO but creates a storage I/O nightmare. Vendors have embraced flash as the answer and have almost overwhelmed IT Planners with options. In this indepth report Storage Switzerland’s Founder and Lead Analyst, George Crump, looks at the various flash options and helps you determine the best path for your data center.
Dot Hill Delivers Storage for the Real World Data Center
From high density virtualization to software-defined infrastructures, changes in technology are coming fast. And keeping up with these changes is pushing IT staffs in the real world data center to the breaking point. This means detailed storage design and planning…
Tagged with: Dot Hill, Fibre Channel, Hardware, ISCSI, SNW Europe, Storage, Virtualization
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How To Design a 2 Million IOPS Storage Architecture
In order for databases to scale, virtual environments to become denser, and analytics to become more real-time, storage performance needs to scale. That means designing storage architectures that not only meet the needs of today’s applications but also the needs…
Asigra – All-in-One-Backup – From the Enterprise to the Cloud
Protecting data is becoming increasingly complex and fraught with risk. Today, business data resides on everything from centralized, virtualized server infrastructure to public cloud software applications, to end user mobile edge devices. Finding a way to reliably and efficiently protect…
Tagged with: Agentless, Archive, Asigra, Backup, Cloud, NAS, Recovery, SAN, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Scale Data Protection With Your Virtual Environment
Thanks to an easy-to-measure return on investment (ROI) most data centers’ virtual server environments are growing rapidly. Many organizations have implemented a “virtualize first” policy, where all new servers are virtualized. In addition, legacy servers are being migrated to virtual…
Tagged with: Backup, Business, HP, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESX
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Automated Caching for the Virtualized Data Center
Many industry observers estimate that the server infrastructure in a typical data center environment is approximately 50% virtualized. As virtual machine (VM) density increases, conventional storage platforms are wilting under the pressure of managing highly randomized storage IO patterns. Indeed,…
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