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Can NAS Scale to meet I/O demand?

Posted on September 15, 2014 by Eric Slack

Maximizing VM density is the goal as business grows and enterprise IT organizations scale their infrastructures to keep up – without breaking the bank. Dense VM environments are a more efficient use of IT resources, but they’re also more of…

Tagged with: Clone, Data Protection, Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scale, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
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Webinar & Lab Review: Enterprise NAS for Highly Dense VM Environments

Posted on September 8, 2014 by George Crump

Can NAS Scale to Meet the I/O Demand? Can Network Attached Storage (NAS) deliver the performance that a highly dense virtual infrastructure demands? Do you want a better answer than: “We think so”? In this webinar we prove that NAS…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Webinar

Four Requirements for adding DR-as-a-Service to VMware

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Colm Keegan

For years, organizations have struggled with maintaining functional disaster recovery capabilities for their most critical business systems. The capital investment for redundant hardware, software and data center infrastructure, along with the personnel time required to ensure that business applications are…

Tagged with: Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, EMC, Hypervisor, Provisioning, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, VM, VMware
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Controlling Storage Network Link Speed

Posted on August 11, 2014 by George Crump

Data center initiatives, like server and desktop virtualization, as well as the introduction of flash enhanced storage, have motivated storage managers to upgrade their storage networks sooner than they might have planned. But those storage managers would be wise to…

Tagged with: Brocade, Fibre Channel, QOS, Quality of service, VDI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
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Enterprise Backup or VM Specific Backup Software?

Posted on August 5, 2014 by George Crump

Most vendors seem to think that selecting which backup solution to use in the data center should be a choice of either an enterprise backup or virtual machine-specific backup solution. Enterprise backup provides legacy, multi-platform protection, but often only spotty…

Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Data Protection, Dell, Hyper-V, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Three keys to cost effective Hyper-V Storage

Posted on July 7, 2014 by George Crump

Microsoft Hyper-V is quickly becoming the preferred choice of small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) looking to tap into the power and flexibility of server virtualization. In addition, many enterprises are looking at Hyper-V as a parallel architecture to VMware.…

Tagged with: Hyper-V, ROBO, SMB, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtual machine, VM
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Why is VM Density so low?

Posted on July 3, 2014 by George Crump

In our recent webinar “Max VM Density Requires Optimal Storage Networking & Operational Transparency” respondents to one of the polling questions indicated that over 40% of the time their servers were supporting less than a dozen virtual machines (VMs). This…

Tagged with: Archive, Brocade, Density, ROI, Storage Networking, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Virtual Machine Hybrid Cloud data protection

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

There are two converging forces taking place in the world of enterprise IT environments today. First, there is a need to efficiently and non-disruptively backup and protect data in virtualized application infrastructure and secondly, there is an increasing interest amongst…

Tagged with: Avamar, Data Protection, EMC, Hybrid Cloud, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, VM
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Overcoming the Recovery-In-Place challenge

Posted on June 30, 2014 by George Crump

The advanced capabilities of virtualization-specific backup applications, such as Veeam, have brought new flexibility to the protection and recovery of virtual servers. In fact, these improvements, plus better availability, may be justification enough to virtualize a workload. Two of the…

Tagged with: CBT, Changed Block Recovery, Drobo, HDD, Hybrid Disk, Recovery in Place, SSD, Virtual machine, VM
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The Benefits of a Flash Only, SAN-less Virtual Architecture

Posted on September 20, 2012 by George Crump

Shared storage using either a storage area network (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS) device enables many key features of the virtual server environment, such as virtual machine (VM) migration, distributed resource management and site recovery management. As a result…