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| Tracking System Solutions' Decision to Deploy on Virsto vDisks |
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| How a Focus on Storage Optimization Enables Aggressively Priced Cloud Offerings from SSI | |
| by Eric Burgener | |
| Because storage makes up such a large part of the costs of any cloud-based infrastructure, it is an obvious place to look for cost reductions. System Solutions, Inc. (SSI), a King of Prussia, Pa.-based IT solutions provider, took that advice to heart in building MySecureCloud, a hosted infrastructure solution targeted at small and medium businesses (SMBs). | |
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| May 09 2012 |
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According to analyst firm Gartner, the VDI market is almost evenly split on ESX/ESXi between the leading virtual desktop front ends VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop, with each contender laying claim to about 40% of the market. With the recent announcement of our support for XenDesktop 5 on ESX/ESXi, we’re now offering Virsto’s performance, space-efficiency, cluster-awareness, and time-saving benefits to rou ... read more >> |
| May 03 2012 |
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Earlier this week, VMware announced the release of View 5.1 with a new Storage Accelerator feature. Since storage acceleration is part of the Virsto value proposition, a question that is likely to come up is what the effect of Storage Accelerator on the Virsto value proposition is. The net net is that Storage Accelerator does not diminish what Virsto offers in View environments and the two potentially complement e ... read more >> |
| April 26 2012 |
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In last week’s post, I thanked the good folks at Ideas International for publishing their storage hypervisor scorecard. Ideas joins other industry analysts such as ESG, ... read more >> |
| April 16 2012 |
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Last week Ideas International posted their inaugural scorecard for storage hypervisors.
As the company that first used the term s ... read more >> |
| April 02 2012 |
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There’s no doubt that SSD is here to stay. But it’s not a new technology. Vendors like Texas Memory would sell you a storage device that operated at near memory speeds in the 1980s, but it was so darn expensive that there weren’t many applications where its use could be justified. As SSD prices have come down, there are more applications where its use can be considered.
Given that “performan ... read more >> |
| March 13 2012 |
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Virsto VDI Survey: 46 Percent of VDI Projects Stalled Due to Cost and Performance
A survey released by Virsto today finds that virtualized desktop initiative (VDI) projects are of great interest to a majority of medium- and large-enterprise IT organization respondents, however the promise of VDI is being compromised due to cost, performance challenges and end user complaints. Information gathered from the survey reveals a clear di ... read more >> |
| March 05 2012 |
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Last September, Microsoft released some information about what customers could expect to see in Windows 8, and at the very end of February the Windows 8 beta became available. There’s been some interesting activity on the blogosphere about it (see a good blog from Jason Perlow here).
What ar ... read more >> |
| February 29 2012 |
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It’s all fine and dandy that Hollywood awards Oscars to those that work out of the limelight in Tinseltown, but there are a lot of unsung heroes who deserve an Oscar probably more than the guy who won for best original song for the recent Muppets movie. How would you like to hear this: “And the Oscar for best storage administrator performance from a virtual administrator who has had no formal storage training goes to& ... read more >> |
| February 14 2012 |
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It’s Tuesday, February 14, Valentine’s Day, and love is in the air. When you think about the “great couples of the ages” – Marc Antony and Cleopatra, Romeo and Juliet, Bogie and Bacall, etc – would you ever place your relationship with your hypervisor in that group? Besides being an economic stimulus package for florists, Valentine’s Day does give us the opportunity at lea ... read more >> |
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