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How to Avoid the Storage Refresh

Posted on April 17, 2019 by George Crump

IT professionals look forward to storage refreshes as much as they look forward to a trip to the dentist. In fact, the dentist may be preferable. There are certainly times where storage needs to be upgraded but IT should do…

Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, SSD, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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15 Minute Webinar: Overcoming the Hybrid Cloud Storage Roadblocks

Posted on April 16, 2019 by George Crump

For most organizations, unstructured data is their biggest problem. The need to store all this data is forcing IT to expand primary storage capacities at an alarming rate. Unstructured data not only threatens to break IT budgets, but also force…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, infinite io, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Virtualization
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Using HCI to Optimize SMB and ROBO Storage Availability, Capacity and Performance – StarWind Briefing Note

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

IT organizations at small-to-midsized businesses (SMBs) and remote and branch office (ROBO) environments face unique challenges. Like their counterparts at larger organizations, they are pressured to empower new, data-driven business insights in real-time, to respond with agility to dynamic business…

Tagged with: Flash, HCI, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Ransomware, Replication, ROBO, SDS, SLA, SMB, StarWind, Tape, Virtualization, VM
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Why is Software Defined Storage Failing to Consolidate Storage?

Posted on April 9, 2019 by George Crump

After enterprises decide not to use the storage mainframe described in our last blog they often next investigate software-defined storage (SDS) as a means to consolidate their storage and reduce storage costs. With SDS, consolidation occurs at the storage software…

Tagged with: AFA, Cloud, Compression, Consolidation, Deduplication, Flash, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, Migration, Object Storage, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, StorONE, Virtualization
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Why Storage is a Virtualization ROI Killer – And How to Fix It

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Virtualization brings the advantage of being able to run a multitude of workloads on the same physical infrastructure. In theory, virtualization promises IT professionals better infrastructure utilization and simplified management. The reality that many are finding, however, is in fact…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Analytics, Cloud, DDN, Flash, Hybrid, LUN, Metadata, Replication, SLA, Snapshots, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: 3 Steps to be a Storage Superhero – How to Slash Storage Costs

Posted on April 5, 2019 by George Crump

Reducing or a least slowing the growth of storage costs is a top priority facing IT organizations in 2019. In this live webinar with Storage Switzerland and SolarWinds, you will learn the three steps IT professionals can take to lower…

Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Is SAS All-Flash Good Enough?

Posted on April 5, 2019 by George Crump

Almost every storage vendor that used to just make SAS-based all-flash arrays is now shipping an NVMe Flash Array. New storage vendors are emerging that are skipping SAS-flash altogether and are starting with NVMe systems. The question facing IT planners…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HDD, Hyperconverged, NVMe, NVMe-oF, Object Storage, SANBlaze, SLA, SSD, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Hyperconverged 101 – Understanding the Components of HCI – Part 2 – Storage Software

Posted on April 4, 2019 by George Crump

In the last blog Storage Switzerland discussed the heart and soul of a Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), the hypervisor. But a group of servers clustered via a hypervisor is not HCI, it is merely virtualization. For any virtualized environment to deliver…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SDN, SSD, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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Using Open Networking to Overcome Roadblocks to the Cloud – Cumulus Networks Briefing Note

Posted on March 28, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are moving to private, hybrid and public cloud so they can create more flexible and more cost-efficient IT operations. The goal is to leverage software which interacts with quality, commodity hardware to create a programmable data center. Underpinning these…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Container, Cumulus Networks, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Metadata, NOS, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Lightboard Video: Obtain VM-specific Visibility and Control to Optimize Your Storage Infrastructure

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Virtualization has become the de facto standard for the majority of enterprise applications, but most management tools cannot provide virtual machine (VM) level visibility and control over input/output (I/O) performance and other capabilities such as replication. Steve Phillips, Principal Systems…