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Virtually Speaking Podcast Episode 20 – VSAN and Cohesity DataPlatform

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We all know that VMware Virtual SAN is the #1 enterprise-class primary storage solution for hyperconverged infrastructure, now with over 5,000 customers. Cohesity DataPlatform and DataProtect are a web-scale platform to consolidate secondary data, data protection, replication, cloud tiering, and test/dev work ows. It is designed to meet the operational e ciencies, security, scalability requirements Read more...
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New Virtual SAN Solution Overview Paper: Mixed Workloads in HCI

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A new Solution Overview paper discusses how Virtual SAN provides a resolution to the complexities originally plaguing dedicated infrastructure hardware. The white paper can be obtained here, but a summary of the piece can be found below.   VMware Hyper-Converged Software Premier Solution for Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) Decoding the complexity of multiple infrastructure silos can Read more...
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Announcing the New VMware Virtual SAN IDC Lab Validation Report

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Hot off the press: VMware Virtual SAN IDC Lab Validation Report With the launch of VMware Virtual SAN 6.2, VMware expanded the capabilities of Virtual SAN as a platform and introduced better data efficiency features by delivering deduplication and compression of data as well as providing RAID-5/RAID-6 support for all flash Virtual SAN environments. This Read more...
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Virtually Speaking Podcast Episode 19 – EMC Unity

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EMC Unity made a big splash at EMC World last month.  In case you missed it, it’s the new midrange storage platform to delight EMC current and prospective customers in the mid-markets with emphasis on simplicity, flexibility, modern data services, and affordability. This week we bring in EMC Technical Marketing Manager for Unity, Daniel Chiu Read more...
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Virtual SAN Performance Service and Performance Tools

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One of the exciting new features of Virtual SAN 6.2 is the new performance service. For quick troubleshooting of issues, or verification of performance it is a great and simple tool that can be turned on with a single checkbox.  This is an ESXi native performance monitoring system with API, as well as UI access. For Read more...
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New VMware Virtual SAN and Cohesity DataPlatform White Paper

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Hot off of the press!: New VMware Virtual SAN and Cohesity white paper. I got the opportunity to collaborate with my pals Gaetan Castelein and Sai Mukundan from Cohesity and co-author a white paper based on Virtual SAN and Cohesity DataPlaform. Download it and learn about the undeniable cost effective value hyper-convergence delivers to the modernization of Read more...