Virtual Data Center eZine - Vol.27: Choosing the Best Storage Network for Virtualization
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All-flash pathways: Data reduction and native capacity
By: Micron Technology
Type: White Paper
A number of technological changes are making the all-flash data center a viable option. However, turning this concept into a reality requires an understanding of data reduction methods and alternatives.
This expert e-guide reveals how thin provisioning, deduplication, and compression can provide two major benefits to your data center:
- A reduction in total capacity required
- If done inline, should extend the life expectancy of flash modules
Also, learn about the alternative to reduction: native capacity.
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3 pillars of a trusted data center
By: FCN
Type: White Paper
To ensure that your IT assets are secure and scalable, you must first ensure that your data center and storage infrastructure is trusted.
But what exactly does that mean? Along with introducing the three pillars of a trusted infrastructure, this white paper maps out best practices for establishing such an infrastructure.
Tap into the paper to unlock these insights and to understand the business benefits that a trusted infrastructure can deliver.
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Accelerated, Agile, and Secure Innovation with Dell Technologies and Intel
By: Dell Technologies & Intel
Type: Resource
The journey towards big ideas to real business outcomes can be daunting for companies struggling to define a clear direction and the capabilities needed to make it happen.
Discover how to enable accelerated, agile and secure innovation with Dell Technologies and Intel’s overarching services, including hybrid cloud and data storage solutions.
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How to prevent the data center outage death knell
By: ExaGrid Systems, Inc.
Type: Blog
For many organizations, a disastrous outage can be a death knell. Discover in this TechTarget blog post how choosing ExaGrid backup storage solutions can help your organization alleviate business continuity and DR challenges.
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E-Guide: Navigating the road to flatter converged data center networks
By: TechTarget Security
Type: eGuide
This expert E-Guide highlights options for flat networks, integrated storage and networking for the private cloud.
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E-Guide: Expert Advice for Evaluating SSD Sharing Options
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
This e-guide examines the benefits and tradeoffs of each approach and offers expert advice for choosing between them. Find out which option is particularly well suited for virtualized ecosystems and learn about the latest innovations in the server-based flash marketplace. Read on now to learn more.
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Learn the warning signs of impending SAN problems
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
This expert SearchStorage.com E-Guide points out red flags of SAN management problems-to-come so you can catch them before they manifest in your virtual environment. Check it out to learn how your peers are responding to these pain points.
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The Best Storage for Virtual Environments
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
Access this eGuide now to discover what vendors are doing to address the problem of IT pros struggling to support storage for virtual environments and which storage works the best in virtual infrastructures.
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Essential Guide to LUN configuration and virtualisation
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this guide you will find all you need to know about LUNs, LUN configuration and management, including their use in virtualised environments.
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Demystifying storage performance metrics
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
We walk you through the key storage metrics you need to know about, look at how storage array makers present them in their product literature, and how to decode IOPS, latency and read/write performance figures.
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SAN block access storage in the age of cloud and hyper-converged
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide we look at the key decision points when it comes to choosing SAN (or NAS) vs software-defined storage and hyper-converged. We also look at the fundamentals of block access storage vs file and object and also look at how these services are provided in the big three cloud providers' universes.
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SAN block access storage in the age of cloud and hyper-converged
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide we look at the key decision points when it comes to choosing SAN (or NAS) vs software-defined storage and hyper-converged. We also look at the fundamentals of block access storage vs file and object and also look at how these services are provided in the big three cloud providers' universes.
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Network Infrastructure Management: Best Practices
By: TechTarget Security
Type: eGuide
This expert e-guide examines the management of a unified, network and storage fabric and who controls FCoE switches and adapters.
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Storage performance: From fundamentals to bleeding edge
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this guide we look at LUN provision and management, RAID and flash storage, plus tuning for analytics workloads and key emerging technologies that can give your organisation a competitive advantage in mission-critical operations, such as storage-class memory, NVMe flash and persistent memory.
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IT Definitions: Storage Special
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide, we have put together a list of key definitions in storage and data protection to help you make sense of the fast-evolving storage technology landscape. From software-defined storage to non-volatile memory express (NVMe), we hope this extensive list of definitions will help you succeed in an increasingly data-driven world.
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Focus: Private cloud
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
The private cloud is often viewed as a stepping stone for enterprises keen to tap into the business agility benefits of cloud without ceding total control over where their applications and workloads run. For some organisations, such deployments act as a test bed environment, where they can work out where best to run their workloads.
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E-Brief: Architecting Storage for a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: EBRIEF
In this expert briefing, veteran IT industry consultant Chris Evans drills into the specific challenges that storage managers face when implementing virtual desktop infrastructures, and provides practical tips to help guarantee a VDI project that meets expectations and delivers on its projected ROI.
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Eradicate the 3 most common cloud challenges
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
Check out this E-Guide for a full understanding of hybrid cloud storage - discover features unique to hybrid cloud products, learn what vendors are in this market space today, and explore three key challenges that can be overcome with a hybrid cloud solution.
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eGuide: Storage Challenges in Virtualized Server Environments
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
Access this e-Guide to learn tools and tactics you can leverage to address and solve common storage challenges in virtual server environments, such as efficiency, speed, sprawl and end user expectations. Read on for an expert Q&A with Forrester Research Principal Analyst Andrew Reichman.
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Experts Address 3 Virtualization-Related Storage Issues
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
This expert E-Guide provides insight into the processes and tools you can use to overcome virtualization-related storage challenges in the areas of efficiency, deployment time and complexity.
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Computer Weekly – 25 June 2019: Saving bees with the internet of things
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, we find out how internet of things technologies and "smart hives" are helping bee conservation. We examine Facebook's new digital currency, Libra, and analyse its pros and cons. And we look at how IT leaders are rising to the challenge of delivering ethics and sustainability in tech. Read the issue now.
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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Key Choices: We Look at Hyper-Converged Infrastructure and its Benefits for the Datacentre.
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
We look at why it makes sense to go hyper-converged, how HCI differs from converged infrastructure, the pros and cons of hyper-converged vs traditional storage arrays, HCI software products available, and whether hyper-converged can help unleash the blistering performance potential of NVMe flash storage.
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NVMe promises blisteringly fast flash performance
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this guide we look at the architectural issues blocking agreement on NVMe, the fundamentals that underlie NVMe and its blistering performance, the key NVMe product deployments available, and ask what will become of the storage features associated with the storage controller.
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Top 10 storage stories of 2019
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
Computer Weekly's storage content decodes trends and offers practical and technical advice. So, looking at the key storage stories of 2019, we see all the main developments reflected.
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Expert methods and strategies for application virtualization
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eGuide
This expert e-guide explores best practices for virtualizing your applications to ensure optimal performance and availability.
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Expert FAQ: Solve your top VM backup concerns
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eGuide
Explore virtual backup best practices and get answers to frequently asked questions in this expert e-guide. Gain tips and strategies for optimizing your backup processes for virtualized environments to ensure comprehensive data protection and disaster recovery.
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A Computer Weekly E-guide to NAS
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In the guide we look at the fundamentals of NAS and the use cases it best suits, the range of file access storage products available including in the cloud and in hybrid operation between cloud and datacentre. We also examine the question of NAS backup, looking at the challenges that have accompanied it and the solutions available.
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E-Book: Virtualizing Your Infrastructure - Selecting Server Hardware for Virtualization
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
Choosing the right server hardware to maximize virtualization benefits is an important investment. To gain the high consolidation ratios you're after, you need powerful-enough hardware to support your workloads and applications. In this expert ebook, explore the hardware consideration to keep in mind as you virtualize.
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SDN in the Data Center: What's in Store for the Future
By: TechTarget Security
Type: White Paper
Virtualization of servers and workloads has improved the efficiency of data centers, but networking has lagged behind. This eGuide takes a look at software-defined networking (SDN), and how it has the potential to fully integrate the data center.
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VM Storage: Dos and Don’ts
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
This e-guide examines server virtualization through a storage lens and outlines tools and techniques you can leverage to maximize performance.
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Advanced Virtualization E-Book: Chapter 7 - Network Virtualization: Unifying the Data Center
By: TechTarget Security
Type: eBook
We are potentially at the beginning of a new generation of IT administrators who manage a range of technologies outside of the traditional realm of virtualization. Read this E-Book to learn more.
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Pros and Cons of PCI Express SSD
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
Check out this expert E-Guide today to explore the potential benefits and challenges associated with PCI Express (PCIe) technology, and receive best practices to help you determine which of these solutions will best meet your storage needs. Also discover how heavily speed should influence your SSD purchasing decision; read on to get started!
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A Computer Weekly Buyer's Guide to Next-Generation Storage
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eBook
Storage needs are ever increasing—and data volumes constantly expanding. How are today's systems accommodating these capacity demands? In this buyer's guide, Computer Weekly experts look at the evolution of storage systems and how they meet processing demands, the continuing role of all-flash arrays, and how to buy the best storage investment.
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Allocating and Configuring Storage for Virtual Machines
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: Essential Guide
This drill-down on allocating and configuring virtual machine storage provides storage admins with some best practices to configure virtual machine storage in their virtualized data centers. Read on to learn more.
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Essential Guide: Optimising hybrid IT infrastructure
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Essential Guide
In this essential guide, we include articles looking at best practice and key technologies in server, storage, networks, DevOps and hyperconverged systems to make the most of your hybrid IT.
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Hybrid Flash: The Essential guide
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Essential Guide
This guide offers a comprehensive survey of the hybrid flash storage market. We give the lowdown on hybrid flash products from the big six storage vendors and the startups and specialists. Plus, we take a look at what's best for virtual desktops: All-flash or hybrid?
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Primary storage guide for large enterprises
By: Infinidat
Type: Research Content
As primary storage continues to evolve to fit organizations’ ever-changing needs, many enterprises are searching for solutions that can meet their expectations. However, primary storage isn’t one size fits all. So, how can you find a system that best fits your company’s needs? Browse this report to learn more.
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Cloud storage requirements you need to know
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
Check out this e-guide for a back-to-basics understanding of cloud technology with 10 key cloud storage requirements that services should meet. Read to learn how to get started on the right foot when attempting the move to a cloud-based infrastructure.
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NVMe flash storage 101
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
Flash storage is already much faster than spinning disk, but with the advent of NVMe – a new standard based on PCIe – flash could achieve a potential that has so far eluded it.
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Hyper-converged infrastructure vs traditional: the pitfalls and benefits of a storage move
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide we give an overview to buying hyper-converged in which we dig into its benefits, such as ease of deployment, resource efficiency, low Opex costs and reduced use of datacentre space. But we also look at the potential pitfalls that include the difficulties of troubleshooting in a tightly-layered environment.
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Computer Weekly - 3 November 2020: The UK government's 'flawed and misleading' Covid-19 data
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, the coronavirus data relied upon by the UK government is 'flawed and misleading' say experts – we examine the implications. Ikea talks about how it turned to the cloud to deal with the impact of the pandemic. And we look at the digital transformation under way at credit card giant Capital One. Read the issue now.
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IT in Europe E-Zine – The Cloud Issue
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eBook
There is enormous competitive advantage to be gained by organisations that understand how to take advantage of the opportunities for innovation that the cloud represents. In this month's IT in Europe, we aim to help point you in the right direction.
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MicroScope July 2019: The effects of Brexit on business
By: MicroScope
Type: Ezine
Brexit is still to be delivered, but the channel has to carry on as if it's business as usual
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News update: Keep your finger on the pulse of the latest tech trends
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, we find out how Formula 1 chief Ross Brawn is turning to digitization to enhance the fan experience of Grand Prix racing. We also learn how virtual reality is being used to deliver healthcare services. And our experts examine the ethical concerns around artificial intelligence. Read the issue now.
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Computer Weekly storage case studies
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Case Study
Antony Adshead takes a look at what made the winning entries stand out from the crowd in the Computer Weekly European User Awards.
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Flash hits the cloud while NVMe flash goes mainstream
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide we will major on NVMe, the stance towards it of the big five storage makers and the varying architectures marketed to the market. We also look at deploying NVMe in the enterprise and in particular for AI use cases. We also look at contemporary scale-out NAS products and flash options offered by the key cloud providers.
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Containers and storage 101: The fundamentals of container storage
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide we look at the basics of Docker storage and backup, key containers capabilities in storage vendors' offers and how containers can be incorporated into the private cloud environment.
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New Flash Technology: Data Placement Automated Based on Hot Data
By: TechTarget Storage
Type: eGuide
NetApp recently launched the FAS2220, a new entry-level storage system, and Flash Pools, a caching method for RAID groups which combine solid-state drives and hard drives. Check out this expert tip guide to learn the details and the projected competitors of this product.
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Computer Weekly – 10 July 2018: Tackling the digital identity problem
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this week's Computer Weekly, as UK government attempts to create a digital identity standard flounder, we examine progress on establishing the online ID system the digital economy needs. Barclays bank talks about its move to DevOps and public cloud. And we find out how AI could help improve IT service management. Read the issue now.
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CW ANZ February 2019: Home in on storage minutiae
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: Ezine
In this edition of CW ANZ, we look at how organisations are using storage analytics to manage their storage footprint and what suppliers are doing to help enterprises get the most of out of the technology.
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Cloud storage hits hybrid mainstream
By: TechTarget ComputerWeekly.com
Type: eGuide
In this e-guide, we take an in-depth look at what is pushing cloud, and more specifically hybrid cloud, into the mainstream and how the rise of cloud applications has driven innovations in backup, with data protection of cloud assets to the cloud arising.
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E-Guide: Requirements for Virtualizing Exchange Server 2010
By: TechTarget Data Center
Type: eGuide
This expert e-guide provides you with everything you need to know about virtualizing Exchange 2010. Discover the hardware, storage, memory, and availability requirements you will have to meet as well as the steps you must take before getting started with this process.
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Object storage draws on metadata capability
By: Cleversafe
Type: eGuide
In this guide, Ellen O'Brien – the Executive Editor for SearchStorage.com – discusses how object storage is in high-demand for archiving and analyzing big data. Discover how metadata capabilities are propelling object storage beyond cloud storage and into a number of new and exciting use cases.