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Thursday, July 25, 2013
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In most data centers, DCIM rests on a shaky foundation of manual record keeping and scattered documentation. OpManager replaces data center documentation with a single repository for data, QRCodes for asset tracking, accurate 3D mapping of asset locations, and a configuration management database (CMDB). In this webcast, sponsored by ManageEngine, you will see how a real-world datacenter mapping stored in racktables gets imported into OpManager, which then provides a 3D visualization of where assets actually are. You'll also see how the QR Code generator helps you make the link between real assets and the monitoring world, and how the layered CMDB provides a single point of view for all your configuration data.

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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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Tags: Whiptail, replication, data center, disaster recovery, array, solid state

Channel: Data Protection, Data Center, , Storage & Mgmt, WAN & App Acceleration, Tapes and Disks

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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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Tags: Silver Peak, F5, Riverbed, virtual appliances, AWS, Amazon, cloud

Channel: Networking & Mgmt, Private Cloud, Next Gen Network, WAN & App Acceleration, Public Cloud, Virtualization

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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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Tags: cloud, public cloud, private cloud, virtualization, uptime, BYOD

Channel: Public Cloud, Next Gen Network, Virtualization, Private Cloud, WAN & App Acceleration

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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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Tags: EMC World, storage, flash storage, WAN optimization, software-defined networking

Channel: Servers & Storage, WAN & App Acceleration, Storage & Mgmt, Networking & Mgmt

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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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Tags: Riverbed, WAN acceleration, servers, branch offices, Granite appliance, Edge Virtual Server Infrastructure, cache, Steelhead, iSCSI, storage, StorSimple, TwinStrata, cloud, data center, LUNs, VMware,

Channel: Private Cloud, WAN Security, Networking & Mgmt, Next Gen Network, Servers & Storage, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Public Cloud, WAN & App Acceleration

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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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Tags: private cloud, cloud computing, cloud bursting

Channel: Private Cloud, Cloud Computing, WAN & App Acceleration

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