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How to Avoid the Storage Refresh

Posted on April 17, 2019 by George Crump

IT professionals look forward to storage refreshes as much as they 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…

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

Posted on April 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

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

Posted on April 8, 2019 by George Crump

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

Posted on April 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

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…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Analytics, Cloud, DDN, Flash, Hybrid, LUN, Metadata, Replication, SLA, Snapshots, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: 3 Steps to be a Storage Superhero – How to Slash Storage Costs

Posted on April 5, 2019 by George Crump

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

Posted on April 4, 2019 by George Crump

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

Posted on April 3, 2019 by Krista Macomber

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…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, HA, HDD, Hybrid, IaaS, Ransomware, SaaS, SDS, SLA, Snapshot, SSD, Veritas, VM
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Lightboard Video: Obtain VM-specific Visibility and Control to Optimize Your Storage Infrastructure

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Krista Macomber

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…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Analytics, Cloud, DDN, Flash, Hybrid, Replication, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Bringing Copy Data Management as a Service to Enterprises – Actifio GO SaaS Briefing Note

Posted on March 15, 2019 by Krista Macomber

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

Posted on February 27, 2019 by Krista Macomber

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…