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Storage Networking focuses upon virtualizing the storage and the SAN while collapsing and simplifying the management and performance of storage.

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    Hard Disk Drives (HDD) for virtual environments (Part II) how drives differ

    March 6, 2013
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    StorageNetworking

    In part I of this series we looked at basic Hard Disk Drive (HDD) characteristics and wrapped up with the question of what is the best type of HDD to use?

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    Building a Management Stack for Your Software Defined Data Center

    February 25, 2013
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    The Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) will require a completely new management stack - one suited to the highly dynamic nature of an environment in which every key resource (CPU, memory, networking and storage) is abstracted from its underlying hardware.

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    Virsto: Software Defined Data Center: Tip of the Iceberg

    February 13, 2013
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    CloudComputing

    VMware buying Virsto is a big move and after considerable discussion a logical step for VMware in many technical areas as well. We previously mentioned that Virsto would add to VMware's existing in Software Defined Data Center (SDDC), but there is more to this than just SDDC, which I believe is the end goal. Getting…

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    Hard Disk Drives (HDD) for virtual environments (Part I)

    January 30, 2013
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    StorageNetworking

    Unless you are one of the few who have gone all solid-state devices (SSDs) for your virtual environment, hard disk drives (HHDs) still have a role. That role might be for primary storage of your VMs and/or their data, or as a destination target for backups, snapshots, archiving or as a work and scratch area.…

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    VMware’s Fourth Quarter and 2012 Financial Results

    January 29, 2013
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    VMware has delivered impressive growth in revenue, and lackluster growth in earnings. Growing earnings while addressing VMware's numerous strategic challenges will prove to make 2013 a demanding year for Pat Gelsinger and his team.

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    Are you using or considering implementation of a storage hypervisor?

    January 7, 2013
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    StorageNetworking

    Depending upon what your or somebody else’s definition of a storage hypervisor is, you may or may not be using one or realize it. If your view of a storage hypervisor is a storage IO optimization technology to address performance and other issues with virtual machines (VMs) and their hypervisors, such as Virsto or ScaleIO…

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    2013 Virtualization and Cloud Computing Predictions

    December 31, 2012
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    CloudComputing

    Herewith we offer our 2013 Virtualization and Cloud Computing Predictions. May we also wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season and a prosperous 2013.

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    A Management Pack Strategy for VMware vCenter Operations?

    November 13, 2012
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    VMware wants to be an enterprise management software vendor with vCenter Operations and the other components of the vCloud Suite. As impressive as VMware is, going it alone against Microsoft, IBM, HP, and CA on the management software front is not a strategy destined for success.

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    VMworld 2012: Important New Features in vSphere 5.1

    August 27, 2012
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    The vSphere 5.1 enhancements are more designed to better fit vSphere into the vCloud Suite as well as move the bar further on virtualizable workloads. vSphere 5.1 allows the virtualization of high performance graphics, real-time, HPC, and big data workloads.

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