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How to Create a Storage Consolidation Solution That Lasts

Posted on February 28, 2019 by George Crump

Consolidating storage into a single, or even a few storage systems is a big project. Once the project is complete, IT’s job is not over. The next job for IT is to make sure storage remains consolidated. Temptations to allow…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Hypervisor, NVMe, SAS, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, StorONE, Virtualization
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Using Proactive Change Management to Maximize Application Performance – SolarWinds Briefing Note

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Application performance degradation can significantly drag on business productivity and the internal, as well as external, end-user experience. In the event that an application is not performing up to business requirements, it is important for IT to have effective change…

Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SLA, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Continuous Data Protection for Greater IT Resilience – Zerto Briefing Note

Posted on February 25, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The need for data protection transformation is pressing. Typically, IT employs multiple point solutions with long backup windows to provide “best effort” recovery point objectives (RPOs) and recovery time objectives (RTOs). However, in today’s business environment, a “best effort” RPO…

Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, DRaaS, Hybrid, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLA, SQL, Virtualization, Zerto
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Optimizing Storage Capacity and Performance with Smarter Metadata Management

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Krista Macomber

It has been long acknowledged in the storage industry that two-thirds or more of data that sits on primary storage arrays is inactive. Storage managers hesitate to archive more data, due to the concern that an urgent request for the…

Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Hybrid, infinite io, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Virtualization
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Making High Availability Attainable Across the Workload Ecosystem – INFINIDAT Briefing Note

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Ensuring high availability to mission-critical applications is vital, but it can be expensive and cumbersome. For instance, managing multiple point data gateways for high availability adds significant management overhead and can substantially drive up the costs of the infrastructure. Meanwhile,…

Tagged with: Analytics, Big data, Cloud, Infinidat, Machine Learning, Replication, SLA, Virtualization
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Optimizing Storage Costs and Performance while Enhancing Planning with Resource Monitoring

Posted on February 18, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Storage managers face the demanding task of maximizing storage infrastructure capacity, performance and availability, while also reducing or at least slowing the growth of storage-related capital and operating expenses. Storage array vendors are innovating to increase performance, uptime and utilization,…

Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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The TCO of Premium Node Hardware for HCI

Posted on February 14, 2019 by George Crump

While the per node cost of using premium hardware in Hyperconverged Infrastructure 2.0 (HCI) is higher than the per node cost of using commodity hardware common to HCI 1.0, the total cost of ownership is significantly lower. The primary reason…

Tagged with: Axe, Axellio, Big data, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, NVMe, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: 3 Steps to be a Storage Superhero – How to Slash Storage Costs

Posted on February 14, 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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Using Workload Simulation to Justify the Shift to NVMe

Posted on February 13, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The introduction of the non-volatile memory express (NVMe) storage protocol brings with it a new storage performance tier. Whereas older Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) and Advanced Technology Attachment (ATA) standards were designed for slower-performing hard disk drive (HDDs) and…

Tagged with: Analytics, ATA, Cloud, HDD, Hyperconverged, IOPS, NVMe, Object Storage, ROI, SANBlaze, SAS, SCSI, SSD, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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What Can Storage Learn From Server Consolidation?

Posted on February 13, 2019 by George Crump

Storage consolidation projects are permanently on the IT project whiteboard. The process typically starts after IT realizes that their data center is overrun by multiple storage systems from multiple vendors. Storage Switzerland finds that most data centers have 5-6 different…