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What is RAID Storage? Meaning, Types, and Working

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RAID combines hardware disk units into a virtualized logical unit to improve the performance and reliability of storage. The post What is RAID Storage? Meaning, Types, and Working appeared first on.

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Evolution of Storage: VM-Aware Storage for Virtualization

Data Center Knowledge

To make virtualization predictable for tier-one apps and end-user desktops and enable mixing and matching workloads, storage should be intelligent, writes Sachin Chheda of Tintri. Also, data reduction techniques to maximize the usage of expensive storage, such as flash, as complements to QoS, and. Industry Perspectives'

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VMware Virtual Storage to Hook Up Flash with Docker

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of VMware’s vSAN component (formerly Virtual SAN), to be made available May 5, will include a Docker volume driver that will enable containerized applications and microservices to address virtual storage volumes as though they were persistent data containers. Version 6.6 It’s a move that VMware.

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The Mismatch Between Virtualization and Storage

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Increased adoption of virtualization in today’s data centers is uncovering the significant mismatch between the capabilities of traditional storage platforms and the specialized demands of virtualization, writes Sachin Chheda. This column discusses the different storage and virtualization.

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SGI Acquires FileTek for Storage Virtualization

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SGI announced that it has acquired big data storage virtualization provider FileTek, for an undisclosed amount. SGI Storage filetek'

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The art of deal-making: Leveraging virtual data rooms for successful mergers and acquisitions

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Poor or inefficient data management, prolonged due diligence, and lack of data security will lead to unsuccessful M&A deals. Dealmakers can avoid all this by using efficiency-boosting M&A solutions like data room software. What is virtual data room software?

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Alluxio: A virtual distributed storage system orders of magnitude faster than others

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The world's first memory-centric distributed storage system bridges applications and underlying storage systems providing unified data access orders of magnitudes faster than existing solutions. Alluxio is a memory speed virtual distributed storage system. Research Team. Alluxio, Inc.

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