Hosted jointly by Fornetix and StorMagic The impact on encryption at the edge With the long-awaited GDPR Compliance deadline behind us, how are end users coping with the challenges that come along with the change? The recent spike in encryption adoption at the edge was an anticipated shift, and is already helping today’s IT architects [...]
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The news from the last few years is littered with stories about security breaches from electronic point-of-sale malware attacks on large US retailers, leaked online credit card payment details, sensitive defense documents being published, to celebrity private photos being stolen. Why is this happening, and are these organizations really following data encryption best practices? The fact is that many [...]
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What does a simple, lightweight and low cost solution designed for edge computing actually look like? Hosted jointly by Cisco and StorMagic There’s no point denying it - the edge computing phenomenon is on the rise. But why? There is growing pressure on edge sites such as branch offices, remote installations and retail stores to generate and [...]
Location, cost or connectivity shouldn’t jeopardize your uptime. Watch this webinar with StorMagic and Maho Group to learn more.
Is your storage up to scratch? How do you know if your storage infrastructure is performing at its best? Or, do you know how under-utilized your infrastructure is? Getting an accurate read on what your organization actually needs, against what your infrastructure currently provides, is critical to ensure an efficient, cost-effective storage architecture. Under-provision, and you’ll quickly find performance [...]
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StorMagic & Citrix Workspace Appliances Citrix revolutionized desktop and app delivery over 20 years ago. The need to virtualize and centralize Windows desktops and applications has not diminished, with organizations large and small continuing to select Citrix as the market leader in this space with over 400 million users connecting to a Citrix cluster. Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has emerged [...]
Running business-critical applications at the edge can be challenging. StorMagic understands the challenges retailers face at the edge.
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Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) promises elegant simplicity in the datacenter: Networking, storage, and compute on commodity hardware that lets you scale capacity and performance when you need it. The reality is much different. Complexity of both the implementation and ongoing management can vary significantly, depending on the underlying architecture and the workloads running on top of it. Since there are [...]
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With each new generation of processor, modern servers can process more in less time. However, this is limited by the performance of storage which has led to an ever-widening performance gap being created. This white paper defines what is meant by the performance gap, what can be done to reduce it and how StorMagic is addressing the issue with [...]
The performance of all-flash arrays, without the cost One of the key challenges facing storage architects at present is how best to efficiently manage hardware in order to maximize performance without incurring significant costs. This is difficult to achieve with standard architectures without massively increasing the amount of disk drives, or spending enormous amounts on all-flash arrays. The solution [...]
Even if you have rudimentary estimating capabilities and you spend a little time doing back of the napkin calculations, you'll quickly figure out that the notion that "all data is going to the cloud" is patently absurd. In the world of the industrial Internet of Things (IoT), data is collected "in the field." And in the field, especially in remote [...]
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Insight and advice from industry expert Howard Marks Are you investigating options for low-cost, highly available IT systems for small sites? Is it hard to find a solution that delivers the uptime and performance needed AND doesn’t break the budget? Watch as analyst and storage expert Howard Marks gives his views and advice on this problem. With over 25 [...]
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Howard Marks from Deep Storage and frequent writer for Network Computing discusses how StorMagic’s approach to software-defined storage is designed to keep costs low while improving performance and maintaining highly available clusters. Over the past ten years hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) has gone from leading edge technology to become the fastest growing method for building an IT infrastructure. As HCI acceptance [...]
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Cut out the compromises in your storage architecture Trying to reduce your storage costs but don’t want to compromise capacity or performance? Join StorMagic for the latest edition of our Monthly Webinar Series, exploring how you can triangulate your storage architecture with SvSAN 6.1 caching. Complete the adjacent form to watch the recorded webinar on-demand, and download the presentation [...]
Taking software-defined storage to the next level with StorMagic SvSAN 6.1 Join StorMagic for the announcement of the latest version of their virtual SAN solution: SvSAN 6.1. SvSAN 6.1 takes the impressive capabilities of SvSAN 6.0 and augments it with a host of new features including read and write caching, intelligent auto-tiering and automated PowerShell script generation. These additional features [...]
The following white paper explores how the combination of industry-standard servers and software-defined storage can enable the creation of an advanced storage array at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage products, whilst delivering increased flexibility for future demands. Many organizations have already deployed server SANs with great success and this white paper will demonstrate why today is the [...]
Take advantage of the perfect storm and learn how to maximize server-based storage Gone are the days when an organisation should simply decide which storage array will meet their needs and then go purchase an off-the-shelf storage appliance from the likes of NetApp or EMC. We are now in the perfect storm of three forces - server commoditization, low cost [...]
Free webinar: Using real-world data to show how to configure your hyperconverged infrastructure for cost efficiency and performance. Hyperconverged infrastucture is now being broadly adopted, yet many organisations are blindly deploying these new shiny toys without clear line of sight to an optimal storage configuration.
This white paper discusses how to utilize VMware vSphere Replication in conjunction with StorMagic SvSAN. This enables organizations that want to deliver a low cost remote site storage infrastructure, to also add an offsite data replication capability for...
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This white paper discusses IT challenges facing organizations with distributed sites, common pain points in these remote site environments and how SvSAN can help to resolve these challenges. Ideal read for organizations looking to formulate their future...
Eliminating application downtime for distributed enterprise One of the greatest challenges of multi-site organizations is to ensure the uptime and availability of business critical applications in lean IT environments. This becomes even more challenging as organizations strive to reduce capital and operating expense. This is now achievable through combining the leading, software-defined storage solution from StorMagic with the latest [...]
As one of the leading retailers for food and consumer goods in Western Canada, they are often confronted with unique challenges...
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As the need for a high availability infrastructure grew, network administrator, George Knops, was not only tasked with finding the right technology, but also one that avoided the purchase of multiple SANs to accommodate a failover situation. “We were faced with the challenge of needing 2 data centers that mirrored one another, so that...
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One of Europe’s largest supermarket chains had been searching for the right IT solution for its edge sites, to help enable a superior shopping experience for its customers. Recently, the company implemented SvSAN and s842 solid state drives (SSDs) from HGST. The combination has produced a tremendous return...
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Windows Server 2012 introduced Storage Spaces. This document discusses the features of Storage Spaces and how SvSAN complements Storage Spaces, enabling customers to provide a robust shared storage solution with a minimal infrastructure footprint, optimized for the distributed enterprise.
Ensuring branch office uptime is one of the highest priorities for enterprise IT. However, the acquisition, deployment and management costs associated with achieving this kind of high availability often make it challenging to deliver.
Adoption of SSD technology in enterprise environments as a primary storage has gained momentum in recent years. This white paper looks at the factors that should be considered as part of the TCO when deploying SSD in the distributed enterprise.
One of the biggest challenges faced by storage administrators is data migration, either to different storage arrays or between different storage tiers within the same array. Download this white paper to learn how the target migration feature in SvSAN addresses these challenges and simplifies storage migrations.
IT infrastructure is evolving; the days of having server and storage silos with dedicated specialized teams are over. This is mainly due to server virtualization and the move to “software-defined” for all infrastructure components. Read this white paper to learn which...
A webinar for the retail and hospitality sectors Deploying and supporting traditional infrastructure for remote offices, retail stores, and hospitality sites can be challenging. Virtualization and high availability can prove complex and costly, often leaving the IT team no choice but to cut corners and send valuable IT resources into the field with short notice. It doesn’t have to [...]
Cut costs and boost performance by switching from a physical SAN to a virtual SAN. Virtualizing your storage? Replacing your physical SAN with a virtual SAN could save CAPEX and OPEX as well as cooling, power and maintenance costs. Join Mark Christie, Senior Systems Engineer at StorMagic for this webinar as he runs you through why you should consider [...]
Remote site IT: Get it right first time Remote site environments have specific IT challenges around footprint, on-site expertise and the cost of deployment and maintenance. Join Mark Christie, Senior Systems Engineer at StorMagic for this webinar as he explains how SvSAN is ideal for these deployments. Complete the form opposite to have instant access to this webinar recording. [...]
In this webinar, Tony Asaro, CEO and Founder of the INI Group, discusses the key findings of their recently published report, Analysis of IT at the Retail Store. For this report, the INI Group conducted in-depth interviews with retailers to uncover the challenges, requirements, and strategies facing retail industry IT professionals and executives. This includes: The importance of uptime