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Scale Computing’s highly parallel, scale-out architecture is designed for storage performance in demanding workloads like virtualization.

Disaster Recovery: How Scale Computing Uses Its Own Storage Solutions for DR

6 Things you didn’t know about Scale-out storage from Scale Computing

Server virtualization technology is deployed in almost every large midmarket and enterprise organization today. However, while widely deployed, server virtualization is still in the early stages of adoption, with just 39% of the total companies surveyed having VMs currently in production.

ESG has captured the evolution of server virtualization in a maturity model that examines the technology challenges users face at each stage of virtualization maturity.

This on-demand webinar looks at ESG's findings as they are related to the current state of server virtualization adoption and how each stage presents different storage challenges. This event includes an expert analysis of how scale-out storage solutions can help users overcome some of the storage challenges that can impede early-stage server virtualization initiatives.

The On-Demand Webinar covers:

Good news for those out there leading the way in the conversion from 1GbE infrastructure to 10GbE:  This week we start taking pre-orders for M-Series storage nodes equipped with 10GbE network ports.  We’ve been testing with 10GbE and watching the adoption rates closely to determine when the offering made sense.  Of course 10GbE makes sense from a performance standpoint.  10GbE is up to 10x faster than gigabit. But we design storage solutions very specifically to deliver amazing bang-for-the-buck, and for a while, the “bucks” for 10GbE didn’t make sense for our storage solutions.  This has changed. The second quarter of 2011 saw the price per 10GbE port decline 10% again, while 10GbE switch sales increased over 22%, according to IDC.  These market trends and feedback from our own customers lead us to the conclusion that now was the right time for us to introduce 10GbE connectivity.

If you don’t have a disaster recovery plan right now, it’s likely for the same reason you don’t have an office unicorn: it seems expensive, complicated to maintain and nobody is really sure they believe in them anyway. However, the Small Business Administration puts businesses in two categories: those who have experienced a disaster and those who will. And, by the way, they also note that 40% of businesses can’t recover after a disaster. Disasters are real and here are 5 reasons you should invest in a disaster recovery plan: