Vendor Landscape Storyboard: Virtual Backup Software
Server virtualization is now being used for production workloads, and traditional backup vendors are adding features to support this. On the other hand, solutions designed specifically for VM backup...
Unifying Virtualized Backup, Replication and Recovery
Data protection solutions that focus on protecting virtualized environments tend to gain a reputation for doing one function well but not performing all the data protection functions well. The problem...
Building High IT Business Continuity in the Face of Disaster
Forces of nature, malicious acts, or even a simple mistake can have a long-lasting negative effect on your business, especially in today’s always-on IT environments. How will data loss affect your organization?
Losing...
IT Operations Managers Must Rethink Their Approach To Private Cloud
Forrester recently surveyed 205 infrastructure and operations (I&O) executives and found that while firms prioritize improved virtualization and have ambitions for internal infrastructure-as-a-service...
Virsto’s Storage Hypervisor Enables Storage to Play Nicely with Server Virtualization
On the whole, server virtualization has been a blessing due to physical machine to logical machine consolidation that leads to better system and CPU utilization and attendant improved IT cost economics....
Bumps Ahead For Feds’ Data-Center Consolidation
While the federal government has mandated that nearly 40% (more than 800) of its data centers be consolidated by 2015, the results of at least two recent studies indicate several concerns about the implications...
Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation
Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority for small and midsize businesses. According to ESG’s 2010 Spending Intentions Survey, it is nearly tied as the top priority for SMBs over...
Virtualization: Benefits, Challenges, and Solutions
The majority of IT organizations have already implemented some server virtualization, and most intend to implement more over the next year. But moving to a virtual environment can raise significant challenges,...
Virtual Performance Matters – Virtualization Challenges
Doing more with less is a key imperative for most IT organizations, hence the growing reliance on server virtualization. But without the right management tools, virtualized servers can quickly sprawl out...
Scaling the Promise of Virtualization – Less is More with Server Virtualization
Many enterprises are consolidating to fewer physical servers by creating more and more virtual machines. This growing phenomenon and the need to implement next-generation IT technologies — such as...
