Most organizations use the cloud in a hybrid manner. Some applications and workloads remain on-premises, while some are transitory between on-premises and the cloud, and still others are cloud only. The distributed IT model puts a new strain on the…
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What is Software Defined Networking?
Like other software defined initiatives, software defined networking (SDN) abstracts the networking operating environment from the hardware switches and controller. The SDN promise is to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency by managing a set of physical top of rack…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Hyperscale, ROI, SDN, SDS, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Protecting the VMware Only Data Center – Unitrends Briefing Note
Today, companies that make up the “M” part of small to medium sized businesses (SMB) as well as small enterprises, have data centers that are 100% or close to 100% virtualized, leveraging VMware as their hypervisor. There are no “teams”…
Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hypervisor, Ransomware, SMB, Unitrends, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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How to Solve VMware Problems, Not Just Knowing About Them – Runecast Briefing Note
Troubleshooting is a big part of the VMware Administrator’s job description. The problem is that most troubleshooting is a reactive process where something has to break before IT leaps into action. The situation gets worse because after a problem has…
Tagged with: Hyperconverged, Migration, Runecast, Virtualization, VM, VMware, VSAN
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Posted in Briefing Note
For SDS on NAS, Hardware Matters – iXsystems Briefing Note
A well established concept in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market is Software Defined Storage (SDS). SDS is tailor-made for NAS, as a file system is, after all, a software construct and it should run on any hardware. While SDS…
Tagged with: Encryption, iXSystems, NAS, NVDIMM, NVMe, Object Storage, Ransomware, SAN, SDS, VM, VMware
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Posted in Briefing Note
SlideShare: How Software-Defined Networking Can Simplify Scale-Out HCI
Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCI) offer management simplicity and provisioning agility to data centers undergoing digital transformation. When applications need more compute or storage resources, IT can “simply add a node” to an existing HCI cluster. But as the HCI environment scales…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Hyperscale, Scale, SDDC, VM, VMware
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Why Can’t SDS Be More Like VMware?
VMware fundamentally changed server deployment. Prior to VMware the best practice was “one-server, one-app” which, as Intel processors continued to increase in power, led to a massive waste of compute resources. VMware allowed applications to be safely stacked on those…
