IT professionals look forward to storage refreshes as much as the 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…
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How to Avoid the Storage Refresh
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, SSD, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Using HCI to Optimize SMB and ROBO Storage Availability, Capacity and Performance – StarWind Briefing Note
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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Primary Storage for VMware on AWS – Zadara Briefing Note
VMware on AWS has been available for over a year, yet there are several missing elements. There are a lack of available data protection solutions and there is a lack of a truly enterprise class storage solution. The primary challenge…
Tagged with: AWS, Cloud, Copy Data, EBS, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, VM, VMware, VSAN, Zadara
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Why Storage is a Virtualization ROI Killer – And How to Fix It
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…
SlideShare: 3 Steps to be a Storage Superhero – How to Slash Storage Costs
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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Hyperconverged 101 – Understanding the Components of HCI – Part 2 – Storage Software
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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Abstract Applications from Infrastructure for Better Business Outcomes
The number of applications requiring high availability (HA) for business continuity and Tier 0 levels of performance is growing. For IT professionals, delivering on these demanding service level agreements (SLAs) is no easy task as IT environments grow more complex…
Lightboard Video: Obtain VM-specific Visibility and Control to Optimize Your Storage Infrastructure
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…
Bringing Copy Data Management as a Service to Enterprises – Actifio GO SaaS Briefing Note
There is no doubt that production data is growing, but copy data is growing even faster. More data must be backed up as the stricter compliance landscape creates more comprehensive retention requirements, and copy data is being used to serve…
Tagged with: Actifio, CDM, Cloud, CSP, Data Sprawl, dev/ops, dr, Encryption, Migration, MSP, Ransomware, Replication, SaaS, SLA, TCO, VM
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Using Proactive Change Management to Maximize Application Performance – SolarWinds Briefing Note
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…
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