Microsoft’s Hyper-V is an attractive alternative to VMware and other hypervisors but maintaining application performance is still a key concern when virtualizing. The bottleneck almost always comes down to storage. Making sure that each virtualized application receives the right mix…
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EMC Briefing Day – NetWorker 8
Over the past decade, EMC has made significant investments in the data protection space. Some examples include NetWorker, Avamar and Data Domain Purpose Built Backup Appliances. Each time one of these acquisitions were made, there were predictions about how the…
Tagged with: Backup, EMC, EMC Corporation, EMCbreifingDay, NetWorker, RecoverPoint, Virtual Tape Library, VMware
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Avamar’s Virtualization Journey Continues
As we headed down the back stretch of our full day of EMC briefings, we sat down with the Avamar folks to discuss the latest developments on that front. As our readers know, EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division has…
Tagged with: Avamar, Backup, Data deduplication, DataDomain, EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Hyper-V, VMware, VMware ESX
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EMC’s Remedy to the Accidental Backup Architecture
As we hit the mid-point of our EMC briefing day, we sat down with the folks from EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division. The first item of discussion was the Data Domain product family. As we have covered in recent…
Tagged with: Backup, DataDomain, EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Oracle, Oracle Database, RMAN, VMware
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EMC Briefing Day – EMC Converges The Infrastructure With ScaleIO
Yesterday, Storage Switzerland was at EMC for a day full of briefings from various groups within EMC. First up on the agenda within the Emerging Technology Division was ScaleIO, a company that EMC acquired earlier this year. ScaleIO allows EMC…
Tagged with: EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Hard disk drive, Hyper-V, PCI Express, ScaleIO, storage solution, VMware, XtremIO
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Application Defined Cache Acceleration
Maintaining consistent application performance has become increasingly challenging. While there are fewer physical servers to support in the data center, in many environments there are dozens, hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines (VMs) accessing the same shared storage resources.…
WD’s New SMB Backup Appliances Leverage Arkeia Software
At the beginning of this year, WD acquired Arkeia, a company with a long history in the primary backup software market. Arkeia was known in the industry as a technology leader in deduplication, with technology they acquired from Kadena Systems…
Tagged with: Arkeia, Network-attached storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Standard RAID levels, USB 3.0, VMware, Western Digital
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VMware Storage Problems Not Just Performance Related
A discussion about the storage infrastructure supporting virtual servers or virtual desktops almost always starts with a focus on performance. After all, solving the much talked about I/O Blender problem often takes center stage. But according to a poll conducted…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Information technology, Logical unit number, LUN, Tintri, Virtual machine, VMDK, VMware
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Maxta Briefing Note
Over the past six years, server virtualization has greatly simplified the deployment of applications in the enterprise. Applications are no longer locked into a single server and can be migrated to other servers, in real time, to satisfy dynamically changing…
Tagged with: Converged Storage, Maxta, Software Defined Storage, Storage, Virtualization, VMware
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Is Legacy Storage Cannibalizing Your Virtualization ROI?
Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst Server virtualization has delivered many benefits to the data center but one area that has become increasingly challenging is storage performance management. Legacy storage was designed to allocate disk resources from physical storage arrays to physical…
Tagged with: Storage Switzerland, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization Aware, VMware
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