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Reading Time: 2 minutes Nexsan is celebrating 25 years of delivering storage solutions enterprises trust for their most critical data needs, backed by the innovation and reliability that has made the company a trusted leader in the industry. It’s not usual see storage companies that has a so long history and still are playing an important roles today.

Reading Time: < 1 minute Do you need to understand SAN and NAS storage? There are several resources available online, but I would like to suggest a free course by Neil Anderson.

Reading Time: 2 minutes In my briefing with Emulex, during the last Powering the cloud event, was with Shaun Walsh, SVP Marketing & Corporate Development, Emulex. Was an interesting extension of the previous meeting with SNIA and FCIA to see how Emulex is approaching the FC storage world. To be honest they are working also hard in the Ethernet and traditional network world, but the core remain the FC world. Emulex does not require too much introdution: the Company’s I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of ultra high-performance Ethernet and Fibre Channel-based connectivity products, have been designed into server […]

Reading Time: 4 minutes In my briefing with Virtual Instruments, during the last Powering the cloud event, was with Skip Bacon Chief Technology Officer and Chris James Director EMEA Marketing. I’ve met both also last year during the past event so was the opportunity know what has changed in the last months. Virtual Instruments is a company focused in Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) for physical, virtual, and cloud computing environments. The VirtualWisdom platform provides end-to-end visibility into real-time performance, health and utilization metrics from the entire systems stack. Virtual Instruments drives improved performance and availability while lowering the total […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes There are some cases, like for test and/or labs (but not only), where could be useful convert a local storage to a shared storage compatible with VMware vSphere (or other hypervisors). For local storage inside the host, the simplest solution is look for a virtual appliance that is designed for this scope (search for VSA – Virtual Storage Appliance). For a storage hosted on a Linux/Unix machine, probably the simplest solution is share the space with the NFS Server (of course it will be limited only to VMware vSphere). And when the storage is on […]

Reading Time: < 1 minute In this page are described the different type of iSCSI inititators supported in vSphere and how to choose and use them: http://vinfrastructure.it/vdesign/vstorage-software-vs-hardware-iscsi/

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