There are numerous benefits to deploying a hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) system: scalability, performance, flexibility, security, and in most cases, management. An HCI deployment is suitable for edge, remote, or branch-office environments or large enterprises with the ability to easily scale storage requirements from TBs to PBs. Even more importantly, HCI can be rolled out on-premises, … Backup and Instant Recovery with Azure Stack HCI
Azure Stack HCI is Microsoft’s hyper-converged infrastructure stack that brings Azure down to your on-premises environment. It’s not a feature of Windows Server, but a separate operating system that is delivered as an Azure service. It provides the latest security, performance, and feature updates through an Azure subscription, similar to how any other Azure service … Six Technical Use Cases for Azure Stack HCI
Ethernet, the Modern Data Center, and Applications Evolve Nearly fifty years ago in 1973, Bob Metcalfe, working in Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) was tasked in creating a high-speed local area network (LAN) technology for computer workstations to the world’s first laser printers. Since then, the networking technology known as Ethernet has become the … The Need for Low Latency, High Performance Ethernet Networks
Ernie Costa is an engineer with a passion for virtualization, hybrid cloud solutions, coffee, baseball, and weightlifting. He is a team lead for Cloud & Application Administration Support at Commvault. Introduction We been testing AKS on Azure Stack HCI since Private Preview last year and are now running production workloads in a few on-prem clusters. During this … How to “vertically scale” AKS on Azure Stack HCI node pools… when you technically can’t
Ernie Costa is an engineer with a passion for virtualization, hybrid cloud solutions, coffee, baseball, and weightlifting. He is a team lead for Cloud & Application Administration Support at Commvault. Introduction In October 2021, I was fortunate enough to get my hands on an early release of the Azure Virtual Desktop Private Preview for Azure Stack HCI … Azure Virtual Desktop on Azure Stack HCI: First Impressions and Configuration Walkthrough
Adam Morris is the Director of IT at DEC. Headquartered in Houston, TX with seven locations around Texas, DEC is premier civil engineering firm with expertise in public infrastructure, surface transportation, land development, hydrology and hydraulics, airports, ports and harbors. Read the DEC customer story We were looking to update our data center with a hyper-converged infrastructure, to … Migrating to and Updating with Azure Stack HCI and DataON MUST Pro
October 2021 Analyst: Mike Feibus Produced in association with DataON Download this report Many IT architects who resisted the rush to the public cloud now find themselves adopting hyper-converged infrastructure, or HCI, as their first step toward hybrid cloud. Here’s why fast-growing Azure Stack HCI is emerging as the preferred choice – and why more … Stairway to Hybrid
DataON AZ-6212 Integrated System for Azure Stack HCI DataON offers complete integrated systems for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI. The DataON AZS-6212 is one of our Integrated Systems, optimized for performance and expansion. It’s built on the new subscription-based Azure Stack HCI OS, streamlined for ease of management and hyper-converged efficiency. It includes OS-integrated Azure Services … DataON AZS-6212 Integrated System for Azure Stack HCI Better Together with Western Digital Technology
In 2019, StorageReview wrote a review of our HCI-224 solution for Azure Stack HCI with Intel® Optane™ NVMe SSDs. In their testing, they found the Azure Stack HCI and DataON solution was 4x faster than VMware vSAN on the same hardware, calling it “the fastest we’ve seen in a mid-market 4-node HCI cluster.” In addition, … StorageReview Gives DataON AZS-6224 Integrated System for Azure Stack HCI it’s Editor’s Choice Award