The Best of Both Worlds—Storage Area Networks and the Hybrid Cloud

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Effective hybrid infrastructure deployment requires a deeper understanding of storage system behavior with a more comprehensive characterization of SLAs and benchmarks. To do that, you need highly realistic and granular workload modeling to quickly find performance and scalability issues.

But storage professionals have historically struggled with systematically understanding and predicting how changes in application workload behavior impact storage performance. This results in either poor performance from under-provisioning or significant wasted spending from over-provisioning storage infrastructure.

Join Virtana to trace the historical and present-day challenges IT organizations face in storage-based business initiatives and discuss how to compete in today’s digital economy with greater agility, increased reliability, and lower IT costs. We’ll cover:

• The current state of enterprise storage and the shift to the cloud
• SAN technologies used by cloud service providers
• A hybrid approach to application availability, disaster recovery, and backup
• Container-first architectures applied to hybrid cloud infrastructure