From Rising Costs to Smarter Storage: The VCF 9.1 Reality

About this episode

The episode discusses how VCF 9.1 addresses rising storage costs and enhances resilience strategies.

Storage is at the center of rising infrastructure costs, and in this episode, Pete and John sit down with Rakesh to explore how VCF 9.1 is tackling that challenge head-on. From cutting hardware requirements in half to introducing global deduplication and native S3 object storage, this conversation dives into how vSAN is evolving to support modern workloads while driving down costs. They also explore new cyber recovery capabilities that bring compute, storage, and networking together for a more complete resilience strategy. If you’re looking to understand how storage is changing in the AI and cloud-native era, and what it means for your environment, this episode is packed with insights.

People in this episode

Hosts: Pete, John

Guest: Rakesh

Topics covered

• storage
• infrastructure costs
• VCF 9.1
• vSAN
• cyber recovery
• AI
• cloud-native

Keywords

• storage
• infrastructure costs
• VCF 9.1
• vSAN
• cyber recovery
• AI
• cloud-native

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: AI, cloud-native

Products: VCF 9.1, vSAN

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