VMware, as it became the standard in the data center, created a huge storage problem, often called the IO blender. Fortunately, as the IO blender problem was about to reach its peak, hybrid and all-flash arrays came to market reducing…
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Does All-Flash Really Eliminate VMware Performance Tuning?
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, Latency, NAND, SAN, Virtual Instruments, VMware
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Realizing The Full Potential of VMware – Blue Medora Briefing Note
Virtualization is supposed to do so much more than just consolidate servers. It was supposed to allow IT to become more service oriented, essentially becoming the organization’s cloud, provisioning IT resources on the fly. Moving beyond simple server consolidation to…
Tagged with: Blue Medora, Cloud, Over provision, Software Defined, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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How To Leverage Cloud Storage With VMware
VWware, for the most part, is an on-premises infrastructure and that typically means there is an on-premises storage architecture to support it. How, then, can organizations leverage cloud storage in support of their VMware infrastructure? Cloud Storage for VMware Backup…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Copy Data, Data Retention, Hybrid, Migration, Replication, VM, VMware
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A Hybrid Cloud is not Two Clouds
VMware starts the organization on the journey to the software defined data center. With their workloads freed from the bounds of physical hardware they look for ways to take advantage of the newfound application mobility. Destinations under consideration include both…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Copy Data, DRaaS, Hybrid, Latency, Software Defined, VMware
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Webinar: How To Leverage Cloud Storage for Hybrid VMware
The VMware environment, for most data centers, is the beginning of their cloud journey. But they struggle with the next step, moving applications or storage to the cloud. Sure, there are applications to migrate or replicate virtual machines to the…
Dealing With Storage Scale in Docker Environments – Project Longhorn Briefing Note
Scale-out storage provides data centers the ability to create infrastructures that can scale to meet the capacity demands of hyper-scale environments. Flash provides data centers the ability to meet the performance demands of the hyper-scale environments. The missing link is…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, CPU, Flash, Hyperconverged, KVM, Project Longhorn, Scale, Snapshot, VMware
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Hyperconvergence Has To Scale Better – Scale Computing Briefing Note
Hyperconverged architectures are a natural fit for medium to large size businesses that can house all or most of their applications within their environment. But hyperconverged vendors need to help businesses get started and help them extend the hyperconverged use…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Cloud, Deduplication, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Scale, Scale Computing, Virtualization, VMware
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Can You Actively Protect Against Ransomware? – Acronis Backup 12.5 Briefing Note
It is possible to identify and stop ransomware in its tracks. It’s also possible to recover from the damage that ransomware attacks cause. It requires a multi-level approach using intrusion detection systems, ransomware detection systems, and a backup and recovery…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Bare Metal, Cloud SQL, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication, VMware
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Refining The Virtualized Backup Process – NAKIVO Briefing Note
The backup software market is very mature. Even virtualization specific backup software solutions have been available for over 10 years. But there is still work to do. In some cases, new releases are taking advantage of new technologies elsewhere in…
Tagged with: Backup, Encryption, Malware, MS-SQL, Nakivo, NAS, Ransomware, Recovery, Replication, Virtualization, VMware
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Do Nutanix Customers Need a Backup Solution? – Comtrade HYCU Briefing Note
Nutanix customers find themselves in an interesting situation. On one hand, they have a scale out hyperconverged infrastructure system that has helped many people expand their virtualization environment. But some Nutanix customers find themselves in need of a backup solution.…
Tagged with: Backup, Comtrade, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Replication, Snapshot, Virtualization, VMware
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