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”…
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Protecting the VMware Only Data Center – Unitrends Briefing Note
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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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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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…
SlideShare: The Best VMware Public Cloud Backup & DR Options
5 Requirements for True Cloud Based VMware Backup & Disaster Recovery Watch On Demand Managing data center infrastructure can be costly and complex. VMware continues to push the envelope of infrastructure efficiency through virtualization that enables customers to deploy infrastructure…
Can Cloud Backup Reduce Backup Storage Costs?
One of the most expensive aspects of data protection is the cost of the storage that holds all of the copies of data. Backup storage capacity can be 10X or more the capacity of primary storage. Backup storage has a…
What is Next in Backup and Recovery? – NAKIVO Briefing Note
Data protection has changed. Most data centers are heavily virtualized, and are using more than just VMware as their hypervisor. Organizations are also well down the path of moving workloads to the cloud, most notably into Amazon EC2. Expectations of…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Flash, Hyper-V, Nakivo, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Webinar: 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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How to Protect a Global VMware Environment
Most enterprises have not virtualized their data center; they have virtualized their data centers (plural). The software most organizations choose as their virtual foundation is VMware. Protecting a multi-site VMware environment has unique challenges that IT needs to address. Three…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, Recovery, TCO, Virtualization, VMware
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