During a disaster everyone needs a place to go, including an organization’s applications and data. Ideally that “place” is prepared. For decades the only real decision for IT was just how prepared would the DR site be? Options ranged from…
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StorageShort: Disaster Recovery – Secondary Site vs. Public Cloud
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Software vs. Hardware Replication
As discussed in our last entry, replication is an ideal way for most organizations to meet the data protection and data recovery demands of their mission critical applications. But there is a choice that IT needs to make when selecting…
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How to Protect Mission Critical Applications
While they should only represent a small percentage of your environment, mission critical applications need the most attention when designing a protection process for them. Most of these applications can only be down for a few minutes and can only…
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How to Move YOUR Cloud To THE Cloud?
Many IT professionals consider their VMware infrastructure to be a private cloud. While not true self-provisioning, it provisions compute and storage resources much faster than in the past. Public cloud providers like Amazon and Azure have almost unlimited quantities of…
The Cost Savings of Using The Cloud as Primary VMware Storage
The cloud is a vast resource of compute and storage, all available on-demand as the organization needs it. Using cloud storage as VMware primary storage with compute remaining on-premises opens up many possibilities. In our last column we discussed how…
How to Use The Cloud as VMware Primary Storage
Cloud storage offers data centers almost limitless capacity and they can purchase that capacity as they need it. But to this point, most use cases for the cloud have been as a secondary storage target, a place to store archives…
SlideShare: 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…
Why Has SDN Adoption Been So Slow? – Pluribus Networks Briefing Note
The move to commodity hardware changed the way data centers scale compute and storage resources. The network, for the most part, is being left out of the movement. Once an organization makes a network vendor selection, it has very few…
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StorageShort: Hybrid VMware’s Data Two Copy Problem
Hybrid VMware should allow an organization to run a virtual machine either on-premises or in the cloud. And that transfer between operating locations should be able to occur at a moment’s notice. The problem is, as we discuss in our…
Can You Use Your Data Center as DR for The Cloud – Zerto Briefing Note
Many companies are asking two questions after moving some or all of their workloads into cloud vendors, such as Amazon, Google, or Azure. Do I need DR for the cloud? Where do you failover to if you’re running in the…
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