Virtualisation and storage
Clouds in the desert as Middle East transforms
Read in this e-guide why technology suppliers are building cloud infrastructures across the region and why businesses crave them.
News : Virtualisation and storage
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March 25, 2020
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Smartbox move to Nutanix HCI a catalyst for IT team revamp
Gift supplier reorganises IT team structures as Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure helps sweep away legacy architecture for hybrid cloud and containerised operations
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March 17, 2020
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Nutanix expands virtual desktop service in APAC
Nutanix has expanded its Xi Frame virtual desktop service to five more cloud regions in Asia-Pacific amid the Covid-19 outbreak
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February 25, 2020
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IT Priorities 2020: Cloud storage key but SAN/NAS alive and well
In the Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey cloud dominates storage spending priorities for 2020, but on-premise technologies such as SAN and NAS are still key to IT
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February 18, 2020
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Veeam Availability Suite v10 adds NAS backup and cloud tiering
Availability Suite is mostly about consolidating the company’s data management platform idea, but it has added incremental forever NAS backup, cloud tiering and recovery to vSphere
In Depth : Virtualisation and storage
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Container storage 101: What is CSI and how does it work?
We look at the container storage interface, which provides an interface to persistent storage in the products of storage array makers, and how it relates to Kubernetes Continue Reading
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Rook 101: Building software-defined containerised storage in Kubernetes
Rook – think castles, not birds – uses the principles of containerisation and the methods used in Kubernetes to build storage that’s abstracted from the hardware it lives on Continue Reading
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Kubernetes storage 101: Container storage basics
We look at the basics of creating storage and specifying it for applications in container storage using Kubernetes Persistent Volumes and Persistent Volume Claims Continue Reading
Blog Posts : Virtualisation and storage
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Nutanix’s IPO launches hyper-converged but can it escape the rules of the storage universe?
We’ve been tracking the rise of hyper-converged infrastructure recently, and one key measure that seems to confirm this as a rising star of the tech world is Nutanix’s IPO last week. Its shares ... Continue Reading
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Hyper-converged and all-flash shine against backdrop of declining storage revenues
Writing about the rise of hyper-converged infrastructure yesterday, and its likely impact on entry-level storage arrays, I based my blog-ument entirely on anecdotal evidence. IE, simply what I see ... Continue Reading
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Primary Data and the latest incarnation of the “storage hypervisor”
At VMworld in Las Vegas this week Primary Data showcased its re-worked version of storage virtualisation. That is, in their case, a way of aggregating disparate storage resources from multiple ... Continue Reading
Opinion : Virtualisation and storage
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Time to rethink IT for containerized workloads
Employing IT tools that span on- and off-premises hybrid environments is a first step toward optimizing infrastructure design and management for container-based environments. Continue Reading
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Storage: How ‘tail latency’ impacts customer-facing applications
Henry He of Virtual Instruments looks at tail latency, the small percentage of storage I/O that could be causing big and costly problems for business applications Continue Reading
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HPE's Simplivity purchase keeps hyper-convergence in the spotlight
Hyper-converged infrastructure is well and truly mainstream. 451 Research finds hyper-converged all set to become the number one platform for core datacentre workloads Continue Reading
Videos : Virtualisation and storage
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CW500: Gavin Cole, Oracle UK
Making sense of storage in a big data world
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CW500: Sean Sadler, Kings College London
One of the dilemmas of the modern CIO is the ever-expanding need for data storage.
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CW500: Robert White, Morgan Stanley
One of the dilemmas of the modern CIO is the ever-expanding need for data storage.