Most organizations today have embraced virtualization technology because it significantly reduces the number of physical servers they need to maintain while providing the increased flexibility of an abstracted environment. While this consolidation of physical servers helps reduce data center costs,…
It is no secret that one of the most difficult challenges with virtualization is managing the storage where VMs reside. The problem starts with the fact that VMware has historically known very little about the storage VMs are using. This…
At the top of most IT project whiteboards is “cloud”. Whether cloud compute or cloud storage, organizations are trying to figuring out how to move their applications or data to these no CapEx environments. One of the most popular is…
CloudEndure Briefing Note Mobility is a key capability that data centers are looking for as they modernize IT operations. It is the ability to move any application or group of applications from anywhere to anywhere. But workload mobility is more…
The cloud is not a single location. It is a combination of private, public and hybrid cloud locations and an organization may have several of each. The cloud aspect means that data and workloads should move seamlessly between these locations.…
The dramatic growth of data continues. To help solve the problems associated with that growth, vendors are coming up with new technologies that will not only maximize storage capacity but also improve performance. These techniques include thin provisioning, writeable snapshots…
Today’s applications have varying storage needs, including performance, protection, and long term retention. In a perfect world, you would store data on the storage system that best meets each of these needs. But the real world delivers a lot of…
Acronis has come a long way since the initial introduction of its backup software many years ago. It now protects over 5 Exabyte of data for over 500,000 business customers and over 5 million consumer customers, 40 percent of whom…
Organizations are asking the present day NetApp Filer to do many things: host home directories, store machine generated data, host virtual machine images and even databases. What was once a single purpose appliance focused on file server replacement is now…
Once an organization has carefully considered all the various factors, requirements and ramifications of a cloud first strategy and has decided to implement it, they need the means to accomplish the migration of their selected data, applications and processes to…
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