Full Potential of Disk-based Backup Finally Becoming a Reality with Cohesity DataPlatform 4.0

June 23, 2017

Organizations have come to the realization that using disk as a backup storage target does more than simply solve backup problems. It creates entirely new possibilities for recovery. But as they recognize these new opportunities, they also see the need for backup solutions that offer them new options for application availability and recoverability backed by ease of management. The latest DataPlaform 4.0 release from Cohesity moves organizations closer to this ideal.

Comtrade Software HYCU Serves as a Bellwether for Accelerated Adoption of Hyperconverged Platforms

June 20, 2017

In today’s business world where new technologies constantly come to market, there are signs that indicate when certain ones are gaining broader market adoption and ready to go mainstream. Such an event occurred this month when a backup solution purpose built for Nutanix was announced by Comtrade Software.

An Alternative Approach for Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere Insight into IT Infrastructure Solutions

June 15, 2017

The Internet has eliminated any excuses for not having access to the information that individuals need to make informed buying decisions about products and/or services. However, providing easy, ready insight that quickly and easily compares IT infrastructure solutions… well, let’s just say Google does not address that challenge. Using DCIG and its Competitive Intelligence Suite, organizations get the tools and services they need to first aggregate research on IT infrastructure solutions and then quickly and easily generate reports that compare product features and services.

DCIG 2017-18 Hyperconverged Infrastructure Appliance Buyer’s Guide Now Available

May 16, 2017

The DCIG 2017-18 Hyperconverged Infrastructure Appliance Buyer’s Guide weights, scores and ranks more than 100 features of twenty-four (24) products from five (5) vendors that achieved rankings of Recommended or Excellent. Using ranking categories of Recommended and Excellent, this Buyer’s Guide offers much of the information an organization should need to make a highly-informed decision as to which hyperconverged appliance will suit their needs.

Data Visualization, Recovery, and Simplicity of Management Emerging as Differentiating Features on Integrated Backup Appliances

October 7, 2016

Enterprises now demand higher levels of automation, integration, simplicity, and scalability from every component deployed into their IT infrastructure and the integrated backup appliances found in the DCIG’s forthcoming Buyer’s Guide Editions that cover integrated backup appliances are a clear output of those expectations. Intended for organizations that want to protect applications and data and then keep it behind corporate fire walls, these backup appliances come fully equipped from both hardware and software perspectives to do so.

SaaS Provider Decides to Roll Out Cohesity for Backup and DR; Interview with System Architect, Fidel Michieli, Part 2

September 30, 2016

Evaluating product features, comparing prices, and doing proofing of concepts are important steps in the process of adopting almost any new product. But once one completes those steps, the time arrives to start to roll the product out and implement it. In this second installment of my interview series with System Architect, Fidel Michieli, he shares how his company gained a comfort level with Cohesity for backup and disaster recovery (DR) and how broadly it decided to deploy the product in the primary and secondary data centers.

Storage Remains a Factor in Hyper-converged Infrastructure Deployment Decisions

September 9, 2016

Anyone in attendance at VMworld last week in Las Vegas and walking through the exhibit hall where all of the vendors showcased their wares could hardly miss the vast numbers of hyper-converged infrastructure and hyper-converged like vendors in attendance. Cisco, Dell, EMC, HPE, Nutanix, Maxta, Cohesity, Pivot3, Rubrik, Simplivity and Datrium, just to name a few, and I am sure there were others. Yet what caught my attention is speaking to their representatives and some of their users is how storage remains a factor in the architecture of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) solutions.

Pivot3 QoS Positions Organizations to Introduce and Maintain Order in their Hyperconverged Deployments

August 17, 2016

Hyperconverged infrastructure solutions stand poised to disrupt traditional IT architectures in every way possible. Combining compute, data protection, networking, memory, scale out, storage, and virtualization on a single platform, they deliver the benefits of traditional IT infrastructures without their associated complexities. But as organizations look to consolidate on hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, they need data protection services such as Pivot3’s Quality of Service (QoS) feature now found on its vSTAC SLX Hyperconverged product that enables organizations to better protect their applications.

HPE Practices What it Preaches to Bring about Its Own Digital Transformation

June 10, 2016

Change. Digital transformation. Disrupt. Eat your own young. These were just some of the terms and phrases uttered at this past week’s HPE Discover event in Las Vegas by HPE executives at all levels of the organization. Yet in the face of the changes that are about to sweep through the technology industry, a technology provider that touches as many organizations around the world as HPE does needs to have more than this type of mindset. It needs to have the products and strategy in place to back it up. Based upon what I saw at HPE Discover last week, HPE is executing upon these requirements.

SimpliVity Hyper-converged Solution Already Driving Enterprises to Complete Do-overs of their Data Center Infrastructures

June 6, 2016

Every now and then a technology comes along that prompts enterprises to a complete do-over of their existing data center infrastructures. This type of dramatic change is already occurring within organizations of all sizes who are adopting and implementing SimpliVity.

Category: Hyper-converged

Full Potential of Disk-based Backup Finally Becoming a Reality with Cohesity DataPlatform 4.0

Comtrade Software HYCU Serves as a Bellwether for Accelerated Adoption of Hyperconverged Platforms

An Alternative Approach for Anytime, Anyplace, Anywhere Insight into IT Infrastructure Solutions

DCIG 2017-18 Hyperconverged Infrastructure Appliance Buyer’s Guide Now Available

Data Visualization, Recovery, and Simplicity of Management Emerging as Differentiating Features on Integrated Backup Appliances

SaaS Provider Decides to Roll Out Cohesity for Backup and DR; Interview with System Architect, Fidel Michieli, Part 2

Storage Remains a Factor in Hyper-converged Infrastructure Deployment Decisions

Pivot3 QoS Positions Organizations to Introduce and Maintain Order in their Hyperconverged Deployments

HPE Practices What it Preaches to Bring about Its Own Digital Transformation

SimpliVity Hyper-converged Solution Already Driving Enterprises to Complete Do-overs of their Data Center Infrastructures

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