Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesThe EMC VMAX3 is a family of SAN arrays designed for enterprise environments requiring large amounts of storage. Post courtesy of: Vince Westin EMC announced the latest new systems in the VMAX3 family. The new systems are the 100K, the 200K, and the 400K, known collectively as the VMAX3 Family. They are updated versions of the 10K, 20K, and 40K. In addition
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesTape still plays a key role in backup, including offline protection from ransomware. What are some key improvements that will keep tape backup relevant in the future? By Brien Posey About a decade ago, magnetic tape storage for backup started falling out of fashion. Disk-based backups became all the rage because of their ability to provide continuous data protection and, eventually, instant
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesHyper-V and VMware are in a perpetual battle for supremacy in the virtualization market. Although the two hypervisors have similar features, capabilities are somewhat different. By Brien Posey For years, VMware was the only sensible choice for enterprise-class server virtualization. However, Microsoft made drastic improvements to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. As such, it seems
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesLicensing for virtual machines can be particularly tricky to navigate for IT admins, who must ensure proper licensing for hosts — as well as software running inside VMs. By Brien Posey Software licensing is rarely straightforward — and virtualization only increases licensing complexity, as both virtualization platforms and VMs themselves must be licensed properly. 2 key rules for VM licensing
Reading Time-approximately: 6 minutesEnterprises are under pressure to curb their carbon emissions and become more environmentally friendly entities on multiple fronts, including in the datacenter. By Mark Samuels Let’s be clear: we face a climate emergency. The United Nations says the world needs to reduce emissions by 7.6% every year through 2030 to prevent potentially catastrophic global warming beyond 1.5°C – and producers and consumers
Reading Time-approximately: 5 minutesTo stay competitive and offer a positive employee experience, organizations need to create a culture of learning that focuses on continuous growth. By Pam Baker ( Pam Baker is a prolific technology journalist and author of Data Divination: Big Data Strategies) The hiring market is heating up faster than a July morning in Las Vegas. In response, every business and HR
Reading Time-approximately: 2 minutesBecause upgrades to infrastructure equipment can be expensive and difficult, the easier decision is to renew a support contract. But delay comes at a cost, too. By Brian Kirsch A major IT infrastructure upgrade frequently lands at the bottom of to-do lists. It’s just easier — most of the time — to extend maintenance contracts and maybe do a few
Reading Time-approximately: 8 minutesA data lake is a storage repository that holds a vast amount of raw data in its native format until it is needed for analytics applications By Craig Stedman and Ben Lutkevich While a traditional data warehouse stores data in hierarchical dimensions and tables, a data lake uses a flat architecture to store data, primarily in files or object storage. That gives users more
Reading Time-approximately: 3 minutesData centers should consider alternate varieties of storage for different uses. Explore hybrid storage arrays, virtual storage, cloud storage and on-premises architecture. By Allyson Larcom The majority of organizations have multiple types of data to store. Data size, speed of access and application priority dictate what type of storage different data needs. As a result, many organizations use multiple different
Reading Time-approximately: 4 minutesFreeNAS is a FreeBSD based storage platform that utilizes ZFS. The fact that it uses a popular enterprise file system and it is free means that it is extremely popular among IT professionals who are on constrained budgets. Post courtesy of: ServeTheHome With FreeNAS using ZFS as well as effective storage tiering using SSD and RAM caches, many users will
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