vMotion is a fantastic capability provided by VMware to VMware environments, but what if you’re not using VMware? Or what if you’re using VMware on-site, but would like to rehost the workload into a public cloud provider such as Amazon…
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ChalkTalk Video: Hyperscaling Data Protection
One of the data protection challenges IT professionals face is dealing with the growth of protected copies of data. Traditional systems simply scale up and eventually hit a wall that forces an upgrade or the purchase of additional systems. The…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Copy Data, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Hyperscale, Ransomware, Scale, VM, VMworld2017
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ChalkTalk Video: The Keys to Hybrid IT Success
As data centers look to the cloud they are faced with the very real challenges of dealing with sprawl, managing growth and ever increasing complexity. Growth though is not bad, it means the business is growing. Growth, however, needs to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Sprawl, Hybrid, Hyperscale, Ransomware, VM, VMworld2017
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Distributed Storage Goes Mainstream
Distributed storage offers more capability than traditional scale-out solutions. They scale further, are more granular and have a better multi-site/multi-cloud model. But distributed systems are typically viewed as the storage system for the next generation data center, and while they…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Encryption, Flash, Hedvig, Hypervisor, NFS, NVMe, Replication, Scale, SDS, VM
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Why Doesn’t Amazon Protect Your Data?
Amazon and its competitors could do more to protect the data stored in their object storage and block storage, and I can’t think of a reason why they shouldn’t. I have an idea on how they could make a lot…
Modern Storage Infrastructures Need Software Defined Networks – Big Switch Briefing Note
Data center modernization creates agility so IT can rapidly respond to the needs of the business. Of the aspects of the data center being modernized, the network infrastructure tends to be the last to change and it inhibits the proliferation…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Containers, Fabric, HCI, Hyperconvergence, ISCSI, NFS, SDN, SDS, Virtualization, VM, VSAN
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Realizing The Full Potential of VMware – Blue Medora Briefing Note
Virtualization is supposed to do so much more than just consolidate servers. It was supposed to allow IT to become more service oriented, essentially becoming the organization’s cloud, provisioning IT resources on the fly. Moving beyond simple server consolidation to…
Tagged with: Blue Medora, Cloud, Over provision, Software Defined, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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How To Leverage Cloud Storage With VMware
VWware, for the most part, is an on-premises infrastructure and that typically means there is an on-premises storage architecture to support it. How, then, can organizations leverage cloud storage in support of their VMware infrastructure? Cloud Storage for VMware Backup…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Retention, Hybrid, Migration, Replication, VM, VMware
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Is Hardware-Based Hyperconvergence Easier to Implement?
Implementation of hyperconverged systems requires the installation of two components. First is the hardware, made up of servers and the networking that connects them. Second is the software, made up of the hypervisor that creates a cluster and storage software…
Moving Beyond The Flash Status Quo – E8 Storage Briefing Note
There are an increasing number of environments where the flash status quo will not deliver enough performance to meet the demands of the organization. IT planners at these data centers need to deliver unprecedented levels of application response time by…
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