There are many ways to define scale. There is scale related to business, there is scale related to IT, and there is scale related to business functions. Actually, when you get right down to it, there are a number of ways to define scale. It depends entirely on your point of view. Given this, there …
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HCI Benefits Without HCI, Part 1: Physical
Do you need to buy an HCI product to get the benefits of a hyperconverged system? I don’t believe that storage and compute need to be on the same physical server to get the big HCI benefits. I think you can get some of the biggest value that HCI delivers without using HCI. The big …
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Veeam Starts Journey to the Cloud with Version 9
Veeam has, after what has seemed to be the longest beta program ever, released to general availability Veeam Availability Suite version 9, which includes all-new versions of Veeam Backup & Replication and Veeam ONE. Having reached the venerable version number of 9, are these new editions revolution or evolution?
The See-Saw Effect: To Scale-up or Scale-out
One of the very first questions presented to the Virtualization Architects when planning and designing a new deployment, for as long as I have been working with virtualization technology. To scale up or scale out, that is the question and philosophy that has flip flopped back and forth as the technology itself has improved and functionality increased.
Coming Full Circle on Scale Out vs. Scale Up
When I first started with virtualization, the only option you had at the time was single core processors in the hosts. Scale up or scale out was the hot debatable topic when designing your infrastructure. On one side of the coin the idea was to scale up in that it was best to get a few of the biggest servers you could find and load them up with as much memory and processors that you could fit in the box. The end result were some very expensive servers able to run a lot of virtual machines for its time. The other side of the coin presented the idea that it was better to scale out with more, smaller servers to make up the cluster. I have worked in both type of environments and attitudes over the years and as for me, personally, I aligned myself with the scale out philosophy. The simple reason for aligning with the scale out group was host failure.