Yearly Archives: 2013

Software Defined Storage Meets Software Defined Networking

Posted on October 21, 2013 by George Crump

Coho Data Delivers Scalable Multi-Purpose Storage Platform One of the challenges facing data centers today is the diversity of the applications they have to support. They range from the virtualized infrastructure, with its highly random I/O pattern, to the transactional…

Tagged with: Coho Data, MicroArray, OpenFlow, PCI Express, SDN, Software Defined, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Briefing Note

Breaking Away From The Hybrid Storage Pack

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Eric Slack

Nimble Leverages Cisco UCS Partnership To Differentiate Itself Nimble was one of the first hybrid storage appliances on the market (hard disk capacity and SSDs in the same purpose built chassis) and they’ve shown impressive growth since their inception. Currently…

Tagged with: Hybrid, Hybrid array, Initial public offering, Microsoft, Nimble, SNW, Solid-state drive, VirtualBox, VMware View
Posted in Blog

EVault Expands Cloud Backup Appliances

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Eric Slack

EVault is a fifteen-year-old company with an extensive range of products, from backup software to complete backup solutions for on-site and cloud-based implementations. Several years ago, the company came out with a line of backup appliances that leveraged the company’s…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, EVault, Hybrid Cloud, Microsoft, Remote backup service, Seagate, Seagate Technology, Symantec
Posted in Briefing Note

SNIA Addressing Needs for Solid State Storage Education

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Eric Slack

At Storage Networking World (SNW) this year in Long Beach, CA, Storage Switzerland caught up with Storage Networking Industry Assn (SNIA) officers Wayne Adams and Molly Rector, to talk about what the organization has been doing recently and where things…

Tagged with: Hardware, IOPS, SNIA, SNW, solid state storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage Networking Industry Association, Storage Networking World
Posted in Blog

Accelerating Application Performance in the Virtualized Environment

Posted on October 17, 2013 by Eric Slack

Hyper-V, like any other virtualized server environment, puts specific strains on (some say it breaks) the traditional storage infrastructure. While a variety of designs have been created to address that issue few systems actually get at the heart of the…

Tagged with: Gridstore, Hyper-V, Quality of service, Scalability, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, Virtual reality
Posted in Article

Is Software The Key To The Flash War?

Posted on October 16, 2013 by George Crump

Interest in All-Flash storage systems is on the rise from the investment community and it is certainly attracting the interest of IT planners looking to create more scalable database environments and more densely populated virtual infrastructures. All-Flash systems enable scale,…

Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Flash memory, IOPS, Permabit, Skyera
Posted in Article

Driving Down The Cost of Forever – How To Keep Data For A Long Time

Posted on October 16, 2013 by George Crump

Retaining data is about more than compliance, now organizations want to keep data sets because they can leverage them to make better decisions or re-sell that data. In short there is money in the data; but you have to have…

Tagged with: Data Retention, SpectraLogic, Tape, Webinar
Posted in Webinar

Scale out NAS Backup for Scale out Storage

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Eric Slack

Backup seems like a simple concept, one that for most companies involves a fairly simple process, copying data to a dedicated storage area. But most companies still struggle with it and for the largest enterprises and government agencies the process…