Posted by Mark Campbell
The essence of what we’ve discussed to date is the problem – dramatically rising numbers of virtual and physical servers, exploding data traffic and at-rest data – all managed by a r...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
When I’m talking to buyers, customers, partners, and analysts, I typically summarize all of the data center trends using the chart above. It’s from IDC’s Digital Universe Study ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
In our final post on next generation data center trends, we thought we’d simply show you as of mid-2014 estimates of the number of servers in some of the largest and best known data centers R...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
We’ve reviewed the trends associated with data center IP traffic growth and the sources of that growth; now let’s look at the trends associated with the workloads running in data centers. ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
With data center IP traffic growing at a 25% annual rate to a projected 7.7 zettabytes per year by 2016, the obvious question is what’s driving all this traffic? Cloud-based file sharing? H...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
In part 1 of this series, we gave an overview of a simple yet powerful concept: virtualization isn’t the next big thing (NBT) because it was the last big thing (LBT) – virtualization is ...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Preface: Greg Shields recently hosted a webinar for 600+ registered webinar attendees for a fireside chat in which I was the invited speaker. We talked about a variety of topics – from agility...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
Actual Unitrends and REDACTED VMware vSphere 5.5 Storage Deduplication for a Single VM and a Single VMDK [Preface: Note that the although the data is real, the name of our competitor has been obscured...Read More
Posted by Mark Campbell
We’re announcing today Release 7.4 of Unitrends Recovery-series physical appliances and the Unitrends Enterprise Backup™ virtual appliance. We’re pretty excited about this release – so wit...Read More
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I thought this would be an informative post as the VMware VSAN is now GA as of yesterday! The definition according to VMware’s product page says: VMware Virtual SAN, a new software-defined st...Read More