It sometimes takes a new customer prospect a little while to get their head around how HC3 is more than just converged hardware. HC3 is a full, integrated alternative to a traditional Vmware environment. Just yesterday during a demo, one of the attendees said, “This is pretty cool. I assume this is Vmware under the […]
To summarize and conclude this series, I want to offer some “rules” or at least “guidelines” that I believe small and mid-sized businesses should consider when planning for their virtual infrastructure. First – ensure your design provides data and compute redundancy across multiple “boxes” wherever possible. And Second – you can provide for both with a …
Gridstore is excited to announce a partnership with Citrix, who launched CloudPlatform 4.3 today. With this release, Citrix’s flagship cloud orchestration-and-provisioning platform now supports all of the top hypervisors, including Microsoft Hyper-V. Citrix’s message is clear—interoperability has become mandatory for today’s datacenter, which is typically an amalgamation of physical and virtual servers, applications, and technologies from multiple vendors. Although it still comprises under 30% of the virtualization marketplace, Hyper-V has gained ground every quarter since its release. Its advantages include price (the hypervisor comes free with Windows Server, which creates compelling economics for service providers), easy integration and management within … more >
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Nexsan E-Series storage arrays coupled with the SANsymphony-V storage
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OAKDALE, Minn. & FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar. 24, 2014–
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SANsymphony-V storage virtualization platform, the solution offers data
centers rapid ROI through significant improvements in data availa…
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OAKDALE, Minn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mar. 18, 2014–
Imation (NYSE:IMN), a global data storage and information security
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In the last post of this series we discussed the various software components to purchase, install, manage, patch in a Hyper-V infrastructure. Now I want discuss the all important data storage options. As is the case with VMware, for automatic high availability failover among Hyper-V hosts you need some form of shared storage system and storage …
Over the past couple of years, enterprises have experienced the painful mismatch between traditional storage and the virtualized data center. While virtualization had brought many great benefits – it has come at the cost of application and VM performance.
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Click Here To Contact Scale Computing >> The time has finally come! Well, the time has been here for a while actually. VMware’s VSAN was just released out of beta and to much fanfare with their “revolutionary” approach of hypervisor convergence. In reality, the “revolution” began back in August of 2012 when Scale Computing launched …
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