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Solving the WAN Challenges of Workload Mobility with HyperIP

IBM released a whitepaper on Leveraging the Cloud to transform Test and Development. As companies implement software in the cloud on an on-premise platforms for workload sharing, challenges emerge in the movement of that workload between the customer premise and … Continue reading

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HyperIP Series – You Asked About vMotions Over Global Networks….

Storage vMotion is different from “vMotion” where your storage stays the same and you change hosts, or “live storage vMotion” where the host is the same and you change the datastore. The storage vMotion I’m talking about is changing both … Continue reading

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HyperIP Series – You Asked About TSM Testing with HyperIP..

We recently had an opportunity to test IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Client to a TSM Server in our HyperIP lab. When doing any kind of application verification or performance testing it is important to first determine the overall limits … Continue reading

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A Blog about a Blog, Is that Allowed?

This weeks blog is about a blog post by Justin Paul, a systems engineer from SMS proTech who focuses on virtualization, storage, and backup applications. Justin was recently working with a customer who was trying to replicate large amounts of … Continue reading

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HyperIP Series – You Asked About Multiple Interfaces….

Everybody tells me this is going to be easy so I’m finally going to try HyperIP. Now let me see again where is the HyperIP website. Okay I’ve downloaded the OVF file, now what? Oh yeah, I need to watch … Continue reading

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HyperIP Series – Works Great with IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM)…

Enterprise Remote Backup has become more of a reality than a perception with the advent of enterprise-class backup apps like Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM).  Building a central information archive using TSM Client to Server backups and restores can now be … Continue reading

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When gambling many times the River Card does not help ….

An enterprise online gaming company uses HyperIP WAN Optimization virtual appliance for global replication acceleration. The company started off using the HyperIP appliance, liked it so much that they migrated to the virtual version of HyperIP which in their environment … Continue reading

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Goes together like PB & J

Here is a brief success story about a Financial Services Company that uses HyperIP WAN Optimization virtual appliance to optimize their Veeam Backup & Replication. The company uses a DS3 circuit between data centers and carves out an 8 Mb … Continue reading

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HyperIP’s ‘Thin’ Virtual Appliance Footprint Comparison

Building a virtual appliance to leverage the advantages of consolidation of server resources has obviously exploded. The idea of implementing WAN optimization in a virtual appliance has become more of a necessity than a luxury. VMware has created Best Practices … Continue reading

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Oh Canada, Bandwidth is Expensive – Eh?

Recently a customer brought it to our attention that unlimited bandwidth pricing in Canada is up to 90 times more expensive than other countries. “Despite Canadians ranking 33rd in broadband Internet speeds worldwide (speedtest.net), Canadian carriers cry foul; their networks … Continue reading

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