Posts Tagged ‘virtualization’

Virtualization and Deduplication

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VMware Performance and Deduplication

Last week I talked about deduplication and its advantages for VMware environments.  One question I heard from a reader, "if the savings are as great as you're saying, why isn't deduplication in VMware environments everywhere today?"  And on the surface, I think the answer is simple, the key challenge to VMware deduplication is performance.   IT organizations have come to understand how deduplication saves on storage costs, but they are genera...

The Case for VMware and Deduplication

We've all watched over the past several years as VMware virtualization has revolutionized IT, instigating the most significant consolidation of computer hardware assets in history. What you may not know is that VMware deployments offer one of the most attractive use cases for data optimization in a primary storage environment. A great example of this comes from our friends over at NetApp®. Shortly after releasing their deduplication feature, Net...

Virtual environments – the storage hogs!

One of the key findings from a Gartner report from late last year, (Virtual Machines and Market Share Through 2012) stated that 'by year-end 2010, enterprises with 100 to 999 employees will have a higher penetration of virtual machines deployed than the Global 500. Concurrently, there will be a growing percentage of small businesses that leverage virtual machines provided by cloud-computing service providers; this will become a major trend in thr...

2010 Predictions

Every New Year brings with it hope for a more prosperous year than the one before and a clearing of the previous year’s frustrations. We all enter New Years Eve with a sense of optimism and it’s a good time to look at the horizon and predict what we think the next be 12 months will look like. Having waited a few weeks; I have tempered my unbridled optimism while looking ahead to the end of the year 2010. From a technology perspective, I...