In this guest blog post on the Tintri blog, vExpert Bill Hill looks at what it might take for 10Gb Ethernet to go mainstream. Tintri VMstore typically uses a 10Gb connection. Enterprise IT is going through some significant growth right now. Virtualization has enabled a shift in how compute tasks are performed, and storage is [...]
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Security Concerns in Public Cloud Offerings, Part 2
In the first post of this series, we introduced the concept of cloud security. We considered the fact that security concerns change as soon as data leaves the protected corporate network. Concepts such as location of the data, who really owns the data, and accessibility were discussed. As you continue reading, please keep your environment [...]
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Security Concerns in Public Cloud Offerings, Part 1
The cloud is a natural extension of virtualization: Abstracted services freely float within a private cloud infrastructure, a public cloud infrastructure, or even a hybrid private and public infrastructure model. However, almost every IT vendor seems to have some cloud-focused solution to offer, with cloud-washed marketing to make it sound indispensible. Hosted email is no [...]
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Flash-based server-side caching and what it means for storage
Solutions like Fusion-io have been around for some time. Typically, these products surround NAND-based local storage solutions. Moving application components to NAND storage provides significant IO benefits. Server vendors have profited by selling rebranded Fusion-io products, such as: IBM PCIe card as a performance disk tier HP mezzanine card for blade solutions Until the end [...]
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Storage Virtualization: An Overview
The concept of virtualization has been around for some time. Virtualization is really just the abstraction of an actual entity or construct into logical representations of those entities or constructs. Most of the time, the term “virtualization” is tied to server virtualization — a technology made popular by VMware, Microsoft, Xen, etc. However, while server [...]
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