Yearly Archives: 2013

Power Failure and Flash Storage

Posted on April 10, 2013 by George Crump

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the issue of power failures in flash based solid state storage systems. In various tests run by industry associations flash based solid state disk (SSD) devices, when subjected to a sudden power-loss,…

Fixing The Performance Weakness of MSP BaaS

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Recently Storage Switzerland and Intronis held a webinar to discuss the most important aspects of rolling out a backup as a service (BaaS) cloud based backup solution. As an interactive webinar, we polled the audience at the outset of the…

Tagged with: Baas, Backup, Exchange, Intronis, MSP, NTFS, Service-level agreement, SMB, SQL, VMware, Webinar
Posted in Blog

Making Storage the VDI Solution, Not the Problem

Posted on April 9, 2013 by George Crump

Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has found a niche in call-center types of environments where very large numbers of workers run essentially the same desktops. But in the broader market VDI hasn’t seen the same success, a fact typically blamed on…

Tagged with: Desktop virtualization, Solid-state drive, Top10-2013, VDI, VeloBit, Virtual desktop, VirtualBox, VMware
Posted in Article

What Is GEN 5 Fibre?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by George Crump

Despite the best marketing efforts of various forms of IP based storage, Fibre Channel continues to gain momentum in the enterprise. The growth in large, real-time databases and the increasing VM density per physical host, as well as the proliferation…

Tagged with: Brocade, Fibre Channel, Gen 5, ISCSI, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network
Posted in Article

The Value of Real Time Backup Health Assessment

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Change is good…or is it? The sheer volume and velocity of changes taking place in IT environments today is staggering. While change may be good for business needs, if left unchecked, improperly managed changes within the backup environment could deal…

Tagged with: Backup, EMC, Hypervisor, Monitoring, Real Time, Recovery, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware
Posted in Article

Object Storage Supercharges DMF Tiered File Architecture

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Eric Slack

For 21 years SGI has been virtualizing primary disk with tape using DMF, their storage tier virtualization software. This solution creates a seamless fabric across multiple tiers of storage, ranging from high-speed flash-based storage on the front end down through…

Tagged with: Big data, Disk, Object, Object Storage, Scality
Posted in Briefing Note

Sepaton v7.0 Product Analysis

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Enterprise data centers environments are continuously faced with ever growing volumes of backup data. Many organizations have embraced purposed built backup appliances (PBBAs) utilizing deduplication (dedupe) to help drive operational efficiencies and reduce reliance on tape as a primary backup…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Oracle, PBBA, Record linkage, Sepaton, Storage
Posted in Briefing Note

Video Review of Sonnet Tempo And Samsung 840 Pro SSD

Posted on March 22, 2013 by George Crump

Next up in our lab is a review of the Sonnet Tempo PCIe SSD Card and the Samsung 840 Pro SSD. Once again we leveraged the OWC Helios as part of the test exchanging the OWC Accelsior with the Samsung…