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Performance, Costs Top Storage Challenges for VDI Projects
Nimble Storage, developer of converged storage and backup solutions, announced the results of a survey of 600 enterprise IT professionals regarding their current and future plans to deploy VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) technology. Over half of the respondents (54 percent) identified storage performance or storage cost as the top challenge in supporting VDI. In addition,…
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F5 Partners With NetApp, VMware on Virtual Machine Migration
F5 Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: FFIV), a specialist in Application Delivery Networking, announced improved live virtual machine migration capabilities for customers leveraging NetApp unified storage and VMware virtualization solutions. The solution combines the companies technologies to help customers migrate live virtual machines between data centers without any perceivable disruption to users or applications. F5 has continued…
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SAP Teams Up With EMC, VMware on Cloud Platform
As cloud computing and virtualization rapidly evolve, business management software specialist SAP (NYSE: SAP) is working in a three-way strategic collaboration with partners EMC (NYSE: EMC) and VMware to develop tools and services that make it possible for businesses to adopt cloud and run SAP systems in cloud infrastructures with increasing levels of automation. The…
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F5 Networks Reduces Complexity of Enterprise Storage With ARX Platform
Many IT professionals are wondering if the exponential growth of disk storage and the associated management chores will ever slow down. Regrettably, for those charged with the day-to-day administration of enterprise storage, the answer is likely no. Several factors are forcing the growth of storage pools, ranging from basic drivers, such as robust applications, to…
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Bocada Launches VM Backup Monitoring Solution
Data-protection software maker Bocada on Nov.2 added a new product for those struggling in the virtual IT world with the introduction of a VM monitoring software package. Bocada Vision provides insight into the data-protection operations of virtual environments. Users can monitor backup methods, performance, success and failures, problem and resource management, virtual environment recovery, configuration…
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Virtualized Environments Causing Data Loss for Businesses: Report
Sixty-five percent of organizations frequently experience data loss from a virtual environment, according to 369 IT professionals surveyed by data protection specialist Kroll Ontrack. That figure represents a 140 percent increase in virtual data loss when compared with last year’s survey. Key findings indicate that 53 percent of those surveyed experienced five virtual data loss…