Yearly Archives: 2013

EMC ViPR Gets Defined

Posted on December 5, 2013 by George Crump

The next meeting at our EMC Briefing Day was with the Advanced Software Division. They are responsible for their software defined storage (SDS) solution – ViPR. We have written about ViPR extensively in the past but now that the product…

Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, EMC, EMC Isilon, EMCbreifingDay, ScaleIO, SDS, Software Defined Storage, ViPR
Posted in Briefing Note

EMC’s VNX Swiss Army Knife Gets Sharper

Posted on December 5, 2013 by George Crump

Next up at Storage Switzerland’s EMC Briefing Day was the Midrange part of EMC’s Enterprise & Midrange Storage Division, also known as the VNX family; and of course we are going to talk about the VNX2. The EMC VNX2 is…

Tagged with: EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Flash, Hard disk drive, Hybrid array, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, VNX
Posted in Briefing Note

EMC Briefing Day – EMC Converges The Infrastructure With ScaleIO

Posted on December 5, 2013 by George Crump

Yesterday, Storage Switzerland was at EMC for a day full of briefings from various groups within EMC. First up on the agenda within the Emerging Technology Division was ScaleIO, a company that EMC acquired earlier this year. ScaleIO allows EMC…

Tagged with: EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Hard disk drive, Hyper-V, PCI Express, ScaleIO, storage solution, VMware, XtremIO
Posted in Briefing Note

Guaranteeing Application Storage Performance When Virtualizing

Posted on December 4, 2013 by Colm Keegan

It’s no surprise that traditional storage performance falls off a cliff in heavily virtualized server environments. Originally designed to interface with a limited number of hosts, legacy dual controller storage architectures simply cannot meet the I/O workload demands of multiple…

Tagged with: Business, Gridstore, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Quality of service, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage virtualization, Virtual machine
Posted in Article

Do You Know The Truth About Your All-Flash Deduplication?

Posted on December 3, 2013 by George Crump

All-Flash Arrays are a performance sledgehammer, obliterating most performance problems and eliminating a great deal of storage management complexity. But, this sledgehammer is expensive and because of this All-Flash vendors are attempting to deliver a variety of solutions to drive…

Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Data compression, Data deduplication, Deduplication, Flash Array
Posted in Blog

Is Traditional Backup Obsolete?

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Eric Slack

As we will discuss in our upcoming webinar, creating a second copy in order to protect important data is becoming increasingly inefficient, a fact driven home by the relentless growth of ‘copy’ data in companies of all sizes. Setting up…

Are You Planning For Storage Performance?

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Colm Keegan

How to be intelligent about flash storage deployments Storage performance has become a “hot button” issue in the server virtualization era. While there is a need for high performance storage, such as flash and hybrid storage solutions, there is a…

Tagged with: Disk array, Flash, Hardware, IOP, Load DynamiX, Solid-state drive, SSD, SwiftTest
Posted in Article

Sharable DAS and Cluster in a Box – Big Solutions for Small Companies

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Eric Slack

At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit last week in San Jose the CEO’s keynote began with a somewhat futuristic video showing several scenarios that could have been episodes of the current “Person of Interest” television show. People were connected to big…

Tagged with: Big data, DAS, High Availability, LSI, OpenVMS, SAN, Servers, Storage area network
Posted in Blog

What Is Storage Caching?

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Eric Slack

A cache in a manufacturing environment is an intermediate store of components or partially assembled products, often referred to as “in-process inventory”, that serves to make the overall production process more efficient. In a computer system, caches, also called “buffers”,…

Tagged with: Cache, CPU cache, Disk array, Dynamic random-access memory, Flash memory, FlashSoft, SanDisk, Storage, Top10-2013, What Is
Posted in Article

Webinar – Customer Use Cases: Accelerating Protection & Recovery of Business Critical Apps

Posted on December 2, 2013 by George Crump

In this Webinar Storage Switzerland speaks with two IT Managers to discuss the challenges they’re having around data protection and application availability. They tell us how they leveraged Nimble Storage Data Protection Solutions to resolve those challenges. Learn what they…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Customer relationship management, Data Protection, Nimble Storage, Oracle, SQL
Posted in Webinar