September 25, 2016 Hyperconverged infrastructure is a radical shift in data center planning and design. Normally, the core elements of a data center—computing, storage, and networking—are all separate components and separate pieces of hardware. In a hyperconverged infrastructure, however, all those elements are combined into a single box. That’s a huge change from the […]
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Monitoring the Network with Cisco Prime InfrastructureRead
September 23, 2016 Historically, the biggest challenge in network administration has always been visibility and monitoring. Before modern tools, it could be extremely difficult to identify when and where a bottleneck has formed in your network infrastructure. This would lead to hours and hours of manually analyzing each piece of network equipment to locate […]
How IT Works: Software Defined Storage and Storage VirtualizationRead
There’s a lot of confusion out there. Software defined storage and storage virtualization may sound the same, but there’s differences between them.
Closing the App-Data-Gap with Nimble StorageRead
Nimble Storage has found the app-data-gap and found ways to overcome it as well.
NetApp All Flash Storage Launches to the #2 SpotRead
August 16, 2016 Though some may say that NetApp all flash storage was “late to the game” in the market, their recent performance has proven critics wrong. In the first quarter of 2016, NetApp finds itself in the number two spot for overall market share of the all flash array market. That’s an impressive […]
New Citrix NetScaler Integration with Cisco ACIRead
Citrix NetScaler and Cisco ACI have worked together to improve application performance. This year at Cisco Live 2016, they improved upon that integration.
All Flash from Pure Storage: Lower TCO than DiskRead
August 7, 2016 For years, the largest barrier preventing flash storage from becoming a mainstay in the storage market was price. Even today, there is the perception that flash storage is effective but expensive, powerful but pricey. This may have been true in 2010, but the cost of all flash storage from developers such […]
VMware NSX Just Got Better with Arkin AcquisitionRead
VMware NSX recently purchased the tech startup Arkin, and with this purchase, NSX gains two new capabilities.
Inventive Ways To Cool A Data Center: Fans To The ArcticRead
July 29, 2016 Challenges in the data center are always at a massive scale. Whereas a small company may need to make a few special accommodations for their in-house data center, a server farm needs to find a way to guarantee that thousands of servers and storage devices stay in operation. They need to […]
All Flash Converged Infrastructure: Supercharge The Data CenterRead
July 24, 2016 Over the past few years, new faces in the storage industry arose to further the innovation of flash storage technology. Companies such as Nimble and Pure Storage made their names selling hybrid and all flash storage arrays to enterprises and SMBs. At the same time, already established storage developers, such as […]