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Briefing Note: Riverbed Hyper-Converges Branch IT

Posted on May 8, 2015 by George Crump

Branch offices are the front lines of business. They need to be nimble and more than ever must be connected. These offices also store a lot of data that needs to be shared with the corporate headquarters. While the branch…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Hyper-converged, IOPS, Riverbed, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Conventional Storage QoS falls short on VMware and Virtualized Workloads

Posted on May 4, 2015 by George Crump

An increasing number of storage systems are coming to market with Quality of Service (QoS) functionality that allows an administrator to guarantee and in some cases, limit the amount of storage performance that a VMware or other virtualized workloads will…

Tagged with: Bandwidth, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, IOPS, LUN, performance, QOS, Shared Storage, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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What are VVols?

Posted on April 30, 2015 by George Crump

With vSphere 6, VMware is set to address one of the biggest storage management problems facing the virtualized environment, associating virtual machines (VMs) with the storage they are using. VVOLs provide that visibility and allow storage and server administration to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Availability, Data migration, Data Protection, FC, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, ISCSI, LUN, NAS, NexGen, performance, SSD, Virtual machine, VM, VVOL
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Briefing Note: StorReduce – Driving Down the cost of Cloud Storage

Posted on April 24, 2015 by George Crump

Because of the capacity requirements associated with it, the cloud storage use case is the most difficult to justify for enterprises. Paying for petabytes of capacity on a recurring basis can get very expensive, especially for backup and archive data…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Clone, Cloud, Deduplication, Dev & Test, StorReduce, Virtual machine, VM
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ChalkTalk Video: Nimble’s InfoSight – Using Big Data to Solve Virtualization’s Storage Problems

Posted on April 17, 2015 by Eric Slack

Virtualization is making things tough on storage. Companies are expanding the use of server virtualization from business critical applications to full virtualization of mission critical applications. And they’re increasing VM density, expanding the number of virtual machines supported by each…

Tagged with: Analytics, Big data, LUN, Nimble, Virtual machine, VM, VMDK
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StorageShort: Cost Justify Flash for VDI in 52 Seconds

Posted on April 9, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

In this StorageShort George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland discusses one of the best ways to cost justify flash for virtual desktop infrastructures; use the flash array for more than just VDI. Some all-flash and hybrid systems deliver enough…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, SSD, Tegile, Thin provisioning, VDI, VM
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Briefing Note: NIMBOXX delivers Hyper-converged for Medium Business

Posted on April 7, 2015 by George Crump

Hyper-converged architectures collapse compute, storage and networking into a single tier so that a few servers can run all of an organization’s applications while also supplying the supporting storage and network infrastructure. These designs seem ideal for the small to…

Tagged with: Data Protection, HA, HDD, Hyper-converged, NIMBOXX, Replication, SMB, SSD, VM
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Cost Justifying Flash For VDI Storage

Posted on March 30, 2015 by George Crump

Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) make a big promise to the data center manager; to substantially drive down the cost of supporting user desktops and laptops while increasing the security for them. But for a VDI project to be successful the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, ChalkTalk, Cloning, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, SSD, Tegile, Thin provisioning, VM
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Briefing Note: PernixData FVP Software Pools Flash & RAM to Accelerate VMs, Complement SAN/NAS

Posted on March 4, 2015 by Eric Slack

Virtualization pushes traditional storage architectures to their performance limits, prompting companies to look at server-dedicated solutions, typically PCIe and SSD flash, to solve their performance problems. The challenge with server dedicated solutions, since they’re limited to the storage devices that…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Flash, Hypervisor, PCIe, PernixData, Protection, RAM, SSD, Virtualization, VM
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Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden

Posted on March 2, 2015 by George Crump

When IT planners map out their primary storage architectures they typically focus on how well the system will perform, how far it will scale and how reliable it will be. Data protection, that process that guards against corruption or system…