Case Study Preview When virtualized applications experience performance problems, the complaints are always forwarded to IT administrators such as Fritz Gielow. Fritz is the storage administrator for the County of Nevada in California, and after upgrading to VMware vSphere 5.1…
The storage controller is the compute part of a storage array that runs the storage software. If the storage controller fails, the storage software can’t run and the array goes offline. As a result, redundant storage controllers are critical to…
There has been a lot of hype around all-flash and hybrid flash arrays over the past few years, but how are data centers using the technology to solve real storage management issues? Listen as Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump…
Briefing Note: Velostrata Many vendors and analysts have suggested that the hybrid cloud model is the best method for traditional data centers to adopt and leverage the cloud. But IT planners at traditional data centers remain unconvinced. There are simply…
This week’s look at news and notes features George Crump and Eric Slack talking to Charlie Hodges about issues ranging from VVols, the importance of Quality of Service in Storage and a deep talk on a claim that “disk is…
George Crump is in Las Vegas for EMC World 2015 and joins Charlie Hodges with an update from the second day at of the annual event. We discuss EMC’s Federation involving Pivotal, VMware and other partners, and how that Federation…
Most data centers are not 100% virtualized, in fact most hover around a 50% virtualization level. The remaining physical servers are often business critical servers running applications based on Microsoft SQL or Exchange. IT Planners are looking toward “container” technology…
As we discussed in our article “Service Level Objectives What do RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?” enterprises need, and now are beginning, to demand a broad spectrum of data protection options to match different use cases. For example, the…
IT planners sometimes consider implementing clustering within their virtual environment. Essentially where the nodes in the cluster are actually virtual machines within the VMware cluster. In this StorageShort, Tony Tomarchio, Director of Field Engineering for SIOS and I discuss this…
Is cloud based DR and recovery all that it is cracked up to be? Many businesses are looking at the cloud as the DR promised land. By drastically reducing the costs of DR infrastructure, the cloud can potentially make DR…
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