Webinar / Webcast

Why SSD Auto-Tiering Falls Short in Virtual Environments

 

Speakers:

Christine Taylor, Analyst Don Chouinard, Director of Product Marketing, Nexsan

Meeting Description: Discover the dramatic differences between new SSD caching architectures and legacy auto-tiering techniques and how each impact performance in demanding virtualized environments. Auto-tiering falls short and you’ll learn why from Taneja Group Analyst, Christine Taylor. Nexsan follows to examine how unique SSD caching technologies in the NST5000 hybrid storage system meets the random I/O performance needs in complex and virtualized environments.

Webcast

Jeff Boles from Taneja Validates Symantec Business Continuity for VMware Environments

Speakers:

Jeff Boles, Sr. Analyst
Mike Reynolds, Sr. Product Marketing Manager

Summary:

Symantec is the only vendor that can solve the application awareness problem for high availability and disaster recovery in virtual environments without compromising native VMware tools such as vMotion, Site Recovery Manager (SRM) and Dynamic Resource Scheduler (DRS). This webcast featuring Jeff Boles from the Taneja Group, will discuss the hidden availability challenges for virtualized data centers, and discuss the best-in-class approach to building a high availability virtual infrastructure for today's business critical applications.

Symantec's unique business continuity solution for VMware environments will help you virtualize business critical applications by:

Recovering applications without a virtual machine reboot
Integrating with native VMware tools including vMotion, DRS, SRM and vCenter
Failing over from physical to virtual machines or vice versa
Reducing downtime for planned maintenance
Learn how Symantec will keep your applications protected and highly available.

Register to view the recording.

Webcast

VMwarePEX - Around the Storage Block Video Blog: VM density with HP 3PAR testing w/ Taneja Group

By Calvin Zito, @HPStorageGuy - During our HP Bootcamp at VMware Partner Exchange (PEX) last week, I was able to watch a presentation by Jeff Boles, Sr Analyst from Taneja Group. Jeff talked about testing he had lead looking at VM density with HP 3PAR compared to a traditional array. While I've talked about VM density here on ATSB and have highlighted our "Double your VM density guarantee", Jeff had some great information that really brings the story home for me.

Click the image to watch the YouTube video:

Read the full blog here:  http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Around-the-Storage-Block-Blog/VM-density-testing-by-Taneja-Group/ba-p/133193

Webcast

Google+ Hangout—Demystifying the Software-Defined Data Center

Join the experts for a discussion about the common obstacles, pitfalls and opportunities companies face as they evolve beyond virtualization and cloud to a software-defined data center.

The IT space is awash in buzz about the concept of a software-defined datacenter (SDDC), which promises to abstract the datacenter from its underlying hardware, enabling IT to connect and configure computing resources in new, powerful ways.

Join our live Google+ Hangout discussion to hear firsthand from IT professionals and other experts on their transition from virtualization and cloud to a SDDC.

They’ll discuss:

How to build the foundation for SDDC
Common obstacles to avoid
Strategies for realizing the full benefits of cloud
Predictions for how SDDC will evolve and impact IT in the future

Moderated by JJ DiGeronimo of VMware, our panel will include:

Jeff Byrne, Senior Analyst and Consultant, Taneja Group
Michael Leeper, Director of Technology, Columbia Sportswear
Angelo Luciani, Network Specialist - The Canadian Depository for Securities Limited & vExpert
Mark Sarago, Business Solution Strategist - Accelerate Advisory Services, VMware, Inc.

For IT professionals preparing to redefine the way IT delivers services, this conversation promises to be time well spent, helping to illustrate how SDDC delivers greater agility, speed and innovation while positioning IT as an innovative business unit.

Click here to watch this hangout on YouTube.

Webinar

Testing VM density – Why it matters, and the 3PAR impact (VMware PEX Presentation)

Presentation Agenda:

What is VM density?

How does it impact the IT infrastructure and TCO?

The common culprit that decreases VM density.

Tackling the common culprit, and a look at some hands-on testing

 

**Taneja Group Analyst, Jeff Boles presentation from the VMWARE PEX event on Febuary 25th, 2013

Webcast

Webcast: Simplifying ROBO Storage Using Hybrid Cloud/Local Architecture

Remote and branch office (ROBO) storage presents unique challenges to enterprise IT and storage professionals. Meeting the needs of dispersed end-users with limited on-site IT support while managing growth in capacity, taming complexity, and keeping costs under control is a daunting task. The larger the number of remote sites, the bigger the challenge becomes.

However, a new approach is redefining ROBO storage deployments. It leverages both cloud and local storage, resulting in significant cost reduction and simplified management while providing end-users with fast access to files, easy recovery of backups and the ability to share files both locally and in the cloud. 

Join storage analysts from Taneja Group and CTERA in this December 2012 on-demand webcast as they explore a comprehensive approach to ROBO storage and discuss:

*ROBO end-user storage needs vs. corporate IT considerations
*Pros and cons of alternative approaches to managing ROBO storage, including: Traditional approaches employing local file servers and tape backup, as well as remote backup, WAN optimization, and cloud storage gateways
*How leveraging cloud storage technology integrated with managed local storage appliances can optimize cost, performance and management overhead
*How this approach can scale to many thousands of sites, providing speedy deployment, centralized management and ease of use for ROBO end users. 

Listen to the webcast --> http://www.bitpipe.com/detail/RES/1354203236_310.html