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X-IO aims Axellio hardware at Microsoft software stack
X-IO side steps VMware, enters hyper-competitive hyper-converged market with dense NVMe blades packed with Microsoft virtualization and storage software.
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Hitachi Vantara adds NVMe to its hyper-convergence
Hitachi Vantara updates its products and prepares to lay out a strategy for using its storage for IoT and distributed data management amid the multi-cloud movement.
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Mercy Ships installs Dell EMC HCI on ships, home office
Dell EMC hyper-converged appliances float the Mercy Ships IT team's boat. VxRail helps the medical charity consolidate IT technology in its floating hospitals and headquarters.
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Tackle HCI and secondary storage questions
Combining HCI and the use cases of secondary storage, such as data recovery and archiving, was a challenge, but a few companies took up that task and launched a new market.
No assembly required: Converged storage options ease virtual server concerns
Can converged storage live up to the all the hype? In this free guide, the experts from SearchVirtualStorage.com offer a comprehensive walkthrough to get started using converged infrastructure and hyper-converged technologies and reveal how these preconfigured systems can simplify storage deployment for VMs.
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Hyper-converged architecture staffing change challenges
IT leaders who have adopted a hyper-converged architecture say it streamlines costs and eliminates silos and finger-pointing, but also brings a fear of the unknown to their staffs.
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Mercy Ships installs Dell EMC HCI on ships, home office
Dell EMC hyper-converged appliances float the Mercy Ships IT team's boat. VxRail helps the medical charity consolidate IT technology in its floating hospitals and headquarters.
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Questions about Pivot3 hyper-convergence answered
Where did Pivot3 first target its hyper-converged storage systems, and where is it focused today? Find out answers to these and other frequently asked questions.
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Tricks for getting more out of vSAN, HCI
Users provide tips on going from three tiers to tears-free hyper-convergence using VMware vSAN software or other HCI architectures proliferating in the data center and beyond.
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Nutanix expands past HCI with Flow, Beam and Era
With the introduction of Flow, Beam and Era, Nutanix has made a clear statement that it's aiming for a comprehensive Nutanix enterprise cloud OS.
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Considerations for data center hardware migration
Refreshing data center hardware is no simple task, especially for organizations with multiple workflows. Before completing an upgrade, make a plan for backups and workload management.
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There is a lot of information out there on hyper-converged storage, and it can be difficult to get down to basics. Here are five common questions about hyper-convergence, answered.
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Some assembly required? Buy or DIY hyper-convergence
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HCI addresses VDI performance issues
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Four problems hyper-convergence can solve
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Composable systems hinge on flexibility with hardware
With composable systems, an IT admin can get more choice from the devices on the back end and more choice on the devices it delivers the virtualized resources to.
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Storage administrator plays an important business role
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Planning your hyper-converged systems aids a VDI launch
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How hyper-converged secondary storage fits in the HCI world
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Hyper-converged IT options should match your workload needs
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VDI values hyper-converged infrastructure benefits
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How to build your own hyper-converged computing platform
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Defining hyper-convergence isn't always easy
Defining hyper-convergence can be a challenge. Focus instead on learning about hyper-converged infrastructure product options and how they fit your data center and cloud plans.
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hyperconvergence
Hyperconvergence -- also spelled hyper-convergence -- is a software-centric architecture that tightly integrates compute, storage and virtualization resources in a single system that usually consists of x86 hardware.
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NetApp FlexPod is a reference architecture for server, storage and networking components that are pretested and validated to work together as an integrated infrastructure stack.
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X-IO aims Axellio hardware at Microsoft software stack
X-IO side steps VMware, enters hyper-competitive hyper-converged market with dense NVMe blades packed with Microsoft virtualization and storage software.
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Converged Systems Management
Hitachi Vantara adds NVMe to its hyper-convergence
Hitachi Vantara updates its products and prepares to lay out a strategy for using its storage for IoT and distributed data management amid the multi-cloud movement.
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Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Implementation
Mercy Ships installs Dell EMC HCI on ships, home office
Dell EMC hyper-converged appliances float the Mercy Ships IT team's boat. VxRail helps the medical charity consolidate IT technology in its floating hospitals and headquarters.