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Hyperconverged 101 – Understanding the Components of HCI – Part 1 Hypervisors

Posted on March 21, 2019 by George Crump

It is tempting for IT professionals to take a macro-view of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and let the vendor take care of all the details. The problem is the details matter, especially in HCI. The key HCI components for IT to…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, NVMe, SDN, SSD, Virtualization, VMware
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SlideShare: Does Your Data Center Need NVMe?

Posted on March 15, 2019 by George Crump

NVMe storage systems and NVMe networks promise to reduce latency further and increase performance beyond what SAS based flash systems and current networking technology can deliver. To take advantage of that performance gain, however, the data center must have workloads…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Hyperconverged, NVMe, Object Storage, SAS, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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How to Use Copy Data Locally, Regionally and Globally

Posted on March 15, 2019 by George Crump

Copy Data is secondary copies of data that already exists on primary storage. These copies are used for recovery, reporting, analytics and testing. Most copy data management solutions are really just advanced snapshot management tools. They don’t provide a robust…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Copy Data, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtualization
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Why Production Workload Modeling for NVMe?

Posted on March 14, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Enterprises are relying on a growing number of applications to run their business. At the same time, these applications carry requirements including performance levels that are simultaneously more divergent and dynamic than ever before. New applications are being spun up…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HDD, Hyperconverged, NVMe, NVMe-oF, Object Storage, SANBlaze, SLA, SSD, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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What is Workload Modeling?

Posted on March 13, 2019 by George Crump

Workload modeling is the process of capturing the IO patterns of a workload so that it can be played back later in a different environment. The goal is to provide a very close simulation of how that workload will respond…

Tagged with: Analytics, ATA, Cloud, HDD, Hyperconverged, NVMe, NVMe-oF, Object Storage, SANBlaze, SAS, SCSI, SSD, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Getting More Out of Your Storage with Copy Data Management

Posted on March 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Copy data sprawl is quickly getting out of hand. Enterprises are spinning up multiple copies of data to meet growing needs around processes such as retention, test and development, analytics and legal discovery without impacting the production storage system. These…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Why Hyperconverged Infrastructure 2.0 for the Hybrid Cloud?

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Most enterprises have experienced early value and success with deploying hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for virtualized workloads. In fact, it is the ability to streamline the path to the on-premises private cloud through abstracting the storage controller into the hypervisor and…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, NVMe, SDN, SSD, Virtualization
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Mastering Enterprise Data Management and Protection – FalconStor Briefing Note

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The modern enterprise relies on data to differentiate itself from competitors, to innovate new products and services, to unlock new revenue opportunities, and to drive employee productivity. Consequently, IT organizations must deliver unprecedented levels of data agility and availability while…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLA, SSD, Virtualization
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Adopting Value-Based Data Governance to Meet Modern Data Privacy Needs

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Data privacy is a universal concern for enterprises, and not only because of the rise of regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By and large, consumers have higher expectations in terms of how businesses are…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Why is Storage Monitoring Critical?

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The boom in data growth and usage makes maximizing the utilization of storage resources more important than ever before. The silos of storage infrastructure that have typically existed in enterprise data centers are becoming further fragmented, as storage managers deploy…