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Whiptail Breaks Vendor Lock-in On Storage Replication
March 29, 2013 03:22 PM
Posted by Howard Marks
Replication between data centers typically required customers to buy two of the same storage arrays from a vendor. Storage company Whiptail has added heterogeneous replication to its array, which lets customers use Whiptail and any other system.
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Silver Peak, F5 Put Virtual Appliances in Amazon Cloud
December 04, 2012 07:10 AM
Posted by Michael Biddick
Many networking vendors offer virtualized appliances that can run in a hypervisor. Now more vendors moving those appliances into public clouds.
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Keep Old Apps Private, Make New Apps Public
October 17, 2012 02:00 AM
Posted by Joe Onisick
Just because you slip a hypervisor under an application doesn't make it equally suited to private and public clouds. Know the differences to get the most from your application deployments.
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Day 2 at EMC World: Touching Base With EMC Partners
May 23, 2012 09:52 AM
Posted by Mike Fratto
We check in with EMC partners and others at the vendor's annual conference. Get the latest from VCE, find out what's new with EMC flash storage and learn why Infineta may be worth watching.
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Riverbed's Granite Virtualizes Branch Office Storage
February 10, 2012 09:00 AM
Posted by Howard Marks
When Riverbed and others brought WAN acceleration to the market around the turn of the century, many of us hoped that with WAN acceleration we could pull the servers, and the headaches they cause, from branch offices. Unfortunately, many organizations found reasons to keep servers in the branches. Riverbed's new Granite appliance allows organizations to keep servers in their branch offices while eliminating many of the headaches through what Riverbed's calling Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure.
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Raining On Cloud Bursting's Parade
August 09, 2011 01:05 PM
Posted by Mike Fratto
Cloud bursting--the ability to dynamically move processing temporarily to a cloud provider in response to some excess demand--sounds like such a great idea. If successful, you can continue to handle the excess burst without having to acquire new hardware, software and licenses, and, equally important, you can do it right now. But before you start popping champagne corks and taking a celebratory lap, you will likely have some significant hurdles to get over.
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