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If you ask an IT administrator to draw his/her ideal IT architecture you’ll probably get a picture of a big consolidated datacenter with all remote branches connecting to it without any locally installed servers/storage. [Read More]

One of the prerequisites for WAN optimization is that the traffic we are attempting to de-duplicate across the WAN is not encrypted, we need “clear-text” data in order to find data patterns so de-duplication is most optimum. [Read More]

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One of the coolest, in my humble opinion of course, solutions I was able to work with when I was at Dell, was the CAStor Object Storage system from Caringo, OEM’ed as the Dell DX6000. [Read More]

Riverbed has recently released version 2 of the EX platform software, this includes RiOS 8 and Virtual Services Platform v2. VSPv2 runs VMware ESXi 5 as it’s hypervisor layer and as such can be managed by VMware vCenter. [Read More]