Bringing the Speed of Flash to Your Software-Defined Storage Infrastructure

NVMe and all-flash systems can solve any performance, floor space and energy problems. At least this is the marketing message many vendors and analysts spread today – but actually, sounds too good to be true, right?

Like always in real life, there is no clear black or white, but some circumstances you should be aware of – especially if you intend to leverage these technologies.
You may ask yourself: Do I need to rip and replace my existing storage? What is the best way to integrate both? What benefits do I receive?

Well, just join our brief webinar, which also includes a live demo and audience Q&A so you can get the most out of these technologies, make your storage great again and discover:
• How to integrate Flash over NVMe in real life
• How to benefit of some Flash/NVMe for your entire applications

Shifting weather patterns across the globe force us to re-evaluate data protection practices in locations we once thought immune from hurricanes, flooding and other natural disasters.

Offsite data replication combined with advanced site recovery methods should top your list.

In this webcast and live demo, you’ll learn about:
• Software-defined storage services that continuously replicate data, containers and virtual machine images over long distances
• Differences between secondary sites you own or rent vs. virtual destinations in public Clouds
• Techniques that help you test and fine tune recovery measures without disrupting production workloads
• Transferring responsibilities to the remote site
• Rapid restoration of normal operations at the primary facilities when conditions permit

Attend live for a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card!*

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Business continuity, especially across data centers in nearby locations often depends on complicated scripts, manual intervention and numerous checklists. Those error-prone processes are exponentially more difficult when the data storage equipment differs between sites.

Such difficulties force many organizations to settle for partial disaster recovery measures, conceding data loss and hours of downtime during occasional facility outages.

In this webcast and live demo, you’ll learn about:
• Software-defined storage services capable of continuously mirroring data in
real-time between unlike storage devices.
• Non-disruptive failover between stretched cluster requiring zero touch.
• Rapid restoration of normal conditions when the facilities come back up.

Attend live for a chance to win a $200 Amazon gift card!*

*Gift card will be sent within 10 days of the webinar date. Void where prohibited.

If you’re working in a technology role in the healthcare field, whether you’re in a hospital or clinic, working in a company producing the latest breakthrough treatment or working in an organization helping patients on the financial side of their health, you know that you have unique technology needs that many other companies may not. You also know that you need technology that enables rather than hinders you, and you may be wondering how some leading-edge healthcare organizations are making this happen right now.

ActualTech Media is partnering with some of today’s leading enterprise IT vendors to bring you a very special EcoCast focused exclusively on healthcare IT. Audience members that have an affiliation with any area of healthcare, medical, life sciences, or similar areas will be treated to a very special healthcare-specific presentation from data center technology provider DataCore.

Join this webinar to learn how today’s leading healthcare organizations are using software-defined storage to tackle the top challenges in Healthcare IT by delivering uninterrupted data access, massive architectural scale-out, and game-changing application performance.

If you were to pose this question to your storage vendor or VMware support today, you would be likely to receive the answer: “No. vSphere does not support this.”

Nevertheless, with the VMware certified, universal vSphere APIs for Storage Awareness (VASA) provider from DataCore you can easily achieve that with full VMware support and without VVol certified hardware today. Use of local discs alone or in combination with other storage arrays as part of the Virtual Volumes datastore would even be sufficient.

Join our brief webinar and Q&A to learn how to make this happen.

Discover in our expanded live demo:
O How to setup such a solution in real life
O How to implement auto-tiering across different arrays

While hyperconvergence aims to make the datacenter more efficient, hyperconvergence can also be confusing at times, due to the numerous forms of HCI, the different approaches, and the varying levels of efficiency that can be gained.

In this exclusive educational event, we’ll cover what hyperconvergence really is, how it works from install to administration, and how it can help your company. We’ll take questions from you, our audience, on this registration form and answer those questions during the live event.

Join hyperconvergence expert Steve Hunt and moderator and vExpert, David Davis to get all your HCI questions answered on this live event!

Did you know that 22% of data center outages are caused by human error? Or that 10% are caused by weather incidents?

The impact of an unexpected outage for just a few hours or even days could be catastrophic to your business.

How would you like to minimize or even eliminate these business interruptions, and more?

Join us to discover:

• Useful and simple measures to use that can help you keep the lights on
• How to quickly recover when the worst-case scenario occurs
• How to achieve zero downtime and high availability

Hyperconverged systems offer a great deal of promise and yet come with a set of limitations.

While they allow enterprises to re-integrate system components into a single enclosure and reduce the physical complexity, floor space and cost of supporting a workload in the data center, they also often will not support existing storage in local SANs or offered by cloud service providers.

However, there are solutions available to address these challenges and allow hyperconverged systems to realize their promise. Sign up to discover:
• What are hyperconverged systems?
• What challenges do they pose?
• What should the ideal solution to those challenges look like?
• A solution that helps integrate hyperconverged systems with existing SANs

Running mission-critical applications and providing continuous access to data are the lifeblood of any healthcare organization. That’s why a business continuity plan is uniquely important to the healthcare sector.

Hear directly from Maimonides Medical Center’s CTO Gabriel Sandu as he shares how their organization uses software-defined storage as a strategic solution to achieve their business continuity plans.

DataCore has been assisting many hospitals and healthcare organizations throughout the world in building upon their continuity planning efforts.

During this webinar, our technical business continuity experts will walk you through real-life healthcare disaster incidents. They will share how major hospitals have survived hurricanes, floods, power outages and building failures by using software-defined storage to provide uninterrupted operations to applications and critical medical data systems during crisis events.

Join this session and learn how DataCore’s software empowers business continuity for healthcare organizations such as New York-Presbyterian, Mount Sinai, Maimonides Medical Center, and Englewood Hospital and Medical Center.

Flash storage technologies will continue to be a front-runner in 2018 for storage vendors and consumers, however why is it that only 2% of data centers have gone all flash? What are the challenges that storage providers and data center infrastructure managers are still facing with flash, despite it's importance in the marketplace?

In the age of digital transformation, IT Infrastructure must embrace new technologies and software-defined storage systems, while still maintaining server and data center performance.

Join this webinar with Flash gurus Alex Best and Alfons Michels to learn the essential steps to take to ensure the perfect coupling of Flash. Sign up to discover:
• 3 reasons why only 2% of data centres have gone All Flash
• Ideal coupling scenarios where All Flash can help vs Challenging environments for Flash
• 2 essential steps to take before you invest more

Is there such a thing as the Perfect All-Flash Relationship?

Flash storage technologies will continue to be a front-runner in 2018 for storage vendors and consumers, however why is it that only 2% of data centers have gone all flash? What are the challenges that storage providers and data center infrastructure managers are still facing with flash, despite it's importance in the marketplace? In the age of digital transformation, IT Infrastructure must embrace new technologies and software-defined storage systems, while still maintaining server and data center performance.

Join this webinar with Flash gurus Alex Best and Alfons Michels to learn the essential steps to take to ensure the perfect coupling of Flash. This session will cover:

• 3 reasons why only 2% of data centres have gone All Flash
• Ideal coupling scenarios where All Flash can help vs Challenging environments for Flash
• 2 essential steps to take before you invest more

We live in a data-driven and application-driven world in which application performance and business outcomes are king. We're also in an era in which organizations are seeking new ways to leverage IT, which often includes tearing down the constructs that have defined IT for so long and rebuilding on a newer foundation. Hyperconverged infrastructure has emerged as a key driver in these efforts, but it's not a perfect challenger, at least not yet.

Join us for this webinar as we take an application-centric journey through the data center where you will discover how DataCore's Parallel I/O technology revolutionizes application performance outcomes in a hyperconverged world, while helping you drive down costs, and improve business agility, all key components in modern digital transformation efforts.

On this webinar you’ll discover:

- The primary concerns regarding traditional hyperconverged infrastructure performance and scale
- Key reasons that all-flash isn't always the answer to addressing performance challenges
- How an affordable software approach to hyperconverged infrastructure performance can revolutionize your business
- Key business and performance outcomes that come from DataCore's Parallel I/O technology

Businesses lose productivity, revenue and resources during unplanned outages. To prevent unexpected downtime, many organizations are searching for solutions that can provide business continuity without breaking their budgets.

What if you were able to achieve both goals while utilizing your existing commodity hardware? How would this benefit your customers and improve productivity?

Join this webinar and we will show you:
- How to keep 2 active copies of your data, even if your disks are from different vendors
- An economical way to deploy existing x86 servers for business continuity
- Ways to keep your hosts and applications running, even if you lose one of your SANs
- How to cluster your preexisting Hypervisors using local disks for high availability

Technological innovation is increasing and expanding at an exponential rate. In response, digital transformation has become an established objective for many enterprises, and the adoption of digital initiatives is now widespread. Docker, Kubernetes and other technologies related to containers are being leveraged to access and deploy systems of engagement. But before you go adding these technologies to your digital transformation road-map, you need to evaluate whether they're the best fit for your needs.

In this webinar you'll discover how to:
• Use containers for digital initiatives
• Maintain the desired application state and manage persistent storage
• Maximize your IT investments by leveraging existing infrastructure
• Automate and integrate your infrastructure

Containers are a solution to the problem of how to get software to run reliably when moved from one computing environment to another. Join us on this webinar to learn how DataCore provides data management and integrity across your infrastructure!

We think differently. We innovate through software and challenge the IT status quo.

We pioneered software-based storage virtualization. Now, we are leading the Software-defined and Parallel Processing revolution. Our Application-adaptive software exploits the full potential of servers and storage to solve data infrastructure challenges and elevate IT to focus on the applications and services that power their business.

DataCore parallel I/O and virtualization technologies deliver the advantages of next generation enterprise data centers – today – by harnessing the untapped power of multicore servers. DataCore software solutions revolutionize performance, cost-savings, and productivity gains businesses can achieve from their servers and data storage.

Join this webinar to meet DataCore, learn about what we do and how we can help your business.

Learn new ways SQL Server can leverage idle cores to improve the responsiveness of highly concurrent, I/O-intensive OLTP workloads.

It’s surprisingly simple.

George Teixeira, our CEO, President and Co-Founder once said:

“DataCore is committed to creating an enduring and dynamic software-driven architecture liberating data and its productivity from static hardware based limitations.”

We are expanding on our vision with the new capabilities in the next release of DataCore SANsymphony and Hyperconverged Virtual SAN.

Join us for this webinar and learn about:

•DataCore Cloud Replication
•Container Management
•Data Resiliency
•Automation & Enhanced API Integration

Interested in hearing the top trends we’ve observed at Microsoft’ Ignite 2017?

We have you covered. Join us as we recap the top trends and highlights of the news and interesting tidbits from Microsoft Ignite. It’s the next best thing to being there! If you were able to attend the event, this is a good chance to compare notes with us.

Surveys show that 61% of companies have experienced slow applications after server virtualization, with 77% pointing to I/O problems as the culprit. Companies are desperately trying to improve their I/O performance to speed-up applications and increase VM density.

The most common performance measurement is IOPS, but is this the best metric?

IOPS depends on a number of variables, including the type of workload being simulated, read/write percentages, sequent/random percentages and block size. Most importantly, IOPS doesn’t indicate the response time.

In this webinar, we’ll discuss better ways to measure response times as I/O increases. These metrics will help you understand why some storage products can claim high number of IOPS but still perform poorly when they are used for critical applications in production.

We will also show how a software-defined storage appliance (the Lenovo DX8200D Powered by DataCore) can speed up your applications.