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Whiteboard Webinar: Dealing with the Multi-Storage Vendor Data Center

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Join Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, George Crump for a Whiteboard Webinar as he discusses a key challenge facing data centers today, the multi-vendor storage infrastructure. Most data centers today have multiple storage systems from multiple vendors each with their own feature set and user interface. Storage sprawl is rampant. The vendor community offers IT three potential…

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SlideShare: How To Use Software Defined Storage to Extend Your SAN, Not Replace it

Latest SlideShare: How To Use Software Defined Storage to Extend Your SAN, Not Replace it

Most vendors are positioning SDS and Hyperconvergence as THE replacement for legacy storage area network (SAN) investment. They want IT to shove the legacy SAN out the door, which most IT professionals are reluctant to do. The result is data centers are either taking a wait and see approach to SDS and hyperconvergence or using the solutions for stand alone new projects. The problem is both of…

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Live Webinar: How To Use Software Defined Storage to Extend Your SAN, Not Replace it

Upcoming Live Webinar: How To Use SDS to Extend Your SAN, Not Replace it

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Most vendors are positioning SDS and Hyperconvergence as THE replacement for legacy storage area network (SAN) investment. They want IT to shove the legacy SAN out the door, which most IT professionals are reluctant to do. The result is data centers are either taking a wait and see approach to SDS and hyperconvergence or using the solutions for stand alone new projects. The…

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Storage Sprawl to Storage Spry

#vmworld2015 chalktalk video with @infinidat "Moving from Storage Sprawl to Storage Spry"

One of the key challenges facing administrators is how to deal with storage sprawl, especially in the VMware era. Virtualization of servers and desktops has led to IT administrators being forced to throw hardware at the problem. It is not uncommon for a modern data center to have three or four storage systems assigned to the virtual environment, as well as 2–3 other systems to support bare metal…

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Slideshare - Stopping Storage Hardware Sprawl

Slideshare Saturday - Stopping Storage Hardware Sprawl

Learn what storage hardware sprawl is, why it ruins IT efficiency and how to stop it in its tracks!

Storage in the data center has evolved from islands of server attached storage to shared networked storage. But in both cases storage needed to be specifically designed for the workload it was on. This has lead to storage hardware sprawl.

Learn: 1. What is causing hardware…

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