Archive of Center Archives - The Storage Chap / TechObsessedDad
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VPLEX – Operational vs. Business Benefits
Posted on March 2, 2012 by TheStorageChap in Data Center, Federation, Virtualization, VPLEXWhilst it has been a busy few weeks from a work and travel perspective, with another busy week ahead (I am on a plane to Dubai as I write this), I am hugely encouraged by customer demand for the functionality...
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The automated datacentre
Posted on February 10, 2012 by TheStorageChap in Automation, Data CenterI had to travel to Dubai earlier this week and had a really interesting meeting with an organisation that wants to create a distributed datacentre between two large cities in UAE and then a third copy of the data...
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Synchronous replication is dead, long live synchronous replication.
Posted on February 3, 2012 by TheStorageChap in Data Center, Replication, VPLEXI had the pleasure of spending time at Cisco Live Europe (#CLEUR) this week talking about all things related to active/active and active/passive replication. We had a packed booth demonstrating and talking about how we could use, amongst other things,...
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The changing face of block storage virtualization
Posted on January 22, 2012 by TheStorageChap in Data Center, Federation, VirtualizationStorage virtualization is no longer itself a solution, storage virtualization is a function, an enabler if you wish, for new capabilities within the data center. In the same way as server virtualization breaks the bond between the operating system and physical...
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Mobility and Disaster Recovery Solution for Virtualized Tier-1 Enterprise Applications
Posted on January 20, 2012 by TheStorageChap in Data Center, Federation, RecoverPoint, VPLEXAs discussed earlier this month, there is a lot of focus on the distributed data center. Today Cisco released a comprehensive whitepaper on their website on the use of...
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Storage and Datacenter Virtualization – Points to Consider
Posted on January 8, 2012 by TheStorageChap in Data Center, Federation, VPLEXIntroduction As part of an over all strategy to increase IT efficiency, organizations are demanding flexible, agile, fully utilized datacenter infrastructures. This drive for flexibility, agility and improved asset utilization is driving many customers to look at virtualization of the different...
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The Distributed Data Center
Posted on January 7, 2012 by TheStorageChap in Data Center, Federation, VPLEXOne of the key focuses for 2012 will be the distributed data center. The key attributes of the distributed data center include:- ‘Building Blocks’ of resources Load Balancing across sites Federated data repository Continuous or High Availability of applications and data Optimal routing and response times Why...
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