How to Measure Scalability in Hyperconverged Appliances – Eric Slack

By Eric Slack, Monday, May 9th 2016

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Scalability in IT systems is a fundamental requirement. Most compute environments need to grow, or at least have that capability as business expands, etc., so infrastructure choices are often made based on products’ abilities to meet this demand for resources....

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The promise of VDI: Are we there yet? — Data-Driven Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, April 10th 2012

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My wife works for our local school department as an IT support specialist assigned to the town's largest elementary school. Like many U.S. elementary schools, kids and teachers use a variety of personal computing devices, including PCs, notebooks, and now...

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What’s different about storage for virtual desktops? — Data-Driven Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Tuesday, February 14th 2012

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It is often said that data center-level server virtualization projects created a renewed demand for networked storage, both NAS and SAN. If that's true, then efforts to virtualize desktops--aka virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects--will create renewed demand for high-performance storage,...

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VDI benchmarks for storage – – – Storage Soup Blog

By Randy Kerns, Monday, August 1st 2011

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As we see more companies begin Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments, we spend more time explaining storage issues related both to server virtualization and VDI. VDI deployments depend heavily on the intelligent usage of storage and on high-capability storage systems....

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Virtual-desktop Integration Touches all Professions — CNET Blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Thursday, April 7th 2011

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I recently gave a presentation at a small gathering of IT "enthusiasts" in Albany, N.Y. I say "enthusiasts" because the audience was an eclectic mix of IT technologists and people with advanced expertise in non-IT fields. For example, I met...

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A challenge for storage entrepreneurs, CNET Data-drive blog by John Webster

By John Webster, Wednesday, June 23rd 2010

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The storage-focused BD Event wrapped up last week in Boston after two and a half days of presentations and networking for the enterprise storage industry--executives meeting up with executives in a kind of industry-focused, back to old college days mixer....

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