Patrick Pletscher
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ExaGrid – secure and immutable backup storage
ExaGrid works exclusively on secure, fast backup storage appliances. The goal is that your backup data is available whenever you need it.
HPE VM Essentials – Part 2
Part 1 covered where VME stood in mid-February. A few weeks on, a fair amount has changed, and we built a three-node VME cluster in our lab.
HPE VM Essentials – Part 1
HPE's own hypervisor, HPE VM Essentials, has been available in Europe since mid-February. Through the Morpheus Data acquisition, HPE has a proven KVM-based hypervisor.
Scality ARTESCA
ARTESCA from Scality is scalable, secure object storage delivered as a software-defined storage solution.
Storage performance testing with vdbench
IOmeter is quick, but its data patterns do not suit a modern storage array. vdbench is the better tool, and this is how to configure it.
Infrastructure assessment with HPE CloudPhysics
Replacing your virtual infrastructure and unsure which resources are actually being used, and therefore needed next time round? CloudPhysics ends the guessing.
Storage performance testing with IOmeter
Every successful storage project ends with a storage performance test during system acceptance, checking the array, the storage area network and the hosts.
iTernity iCAS FS
iCAS FS from iTernity is a software-defined storage solution for secure, reliable, fast and scalable file, object and archive storage.
RAID controllers
If you have configured an HPE ProLiant server, you have almost certainly met a Smart Array or SmartRAID controller. Since Gen10 there is another option: the MegaRAID controllers.
HCI with StorMagic
StorMagic SvSAN is a software-defined storage solution that suits small virtualisation environments with two nodes, turning the SSDs, disks and memory of two servers into a virtual SAN.
HPE InfoSight for servers
HPE InfoSight for Servers gives HPE customers a cloud-based platform for analysing, evaluating and monitoring their servers.
Secure backups with Blocky for Veeam
Backup data is generally treated as the last line of defence, which makes protecting it properly that much more important.
Veeam and S3 storage with ARTESCA
Ransomware attacks have become a persistent nuisance. Beyond securing network, servers and clients, the backup data has to be protected from tampering as the last line of defence.
Securing your data with Veeam SureBackup
How secure is your backup? Have you ever asked yourself if your daily backups really deliver what they promise?