Spanning Backup Up For Salesforce.com Briefing Note George Crump, Lead Analyst – Storage Switzerland The two most universal applications for businesses are the Office Productivity Suite consisting of a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation application, and the customer relationship management…
Many large campuses need to update their core infrastructure in response to increased mobile and social trends, as well as continued scaling of high compute environments. The current heart of many infrastructures is a large scale up core switch. As…
ON-DEMAND WEBINAR – Click Here To Watch Now Microsoft’s Hyper-V is an attractive alternative to VMware and other hypervisors but maintaining application performance is still a key concern when virtualizing. The bottleneck almost always comes down to storage. Making sure that…
Over the past six years, server virtualization has greatly simplified the deployment of applications in the enterprise. Applications are no longer locked into a single server and can be migrated to other servers, in real time, to satisfy dynamically changing…
Many All-Flash Storage Array vendors are counting on deduplication to bring the cost per GB of their systems more in line with traditional hard disk based storage systems. However IT planners need to be careful not to assume that all…
As one of the two primary disk drive manufacturers in the world, Western Digital certainly knows storage products and they’re in a position to be a value leader in this NAS market as well. As a first server, WD’s line…
Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst Server virtualization has delivered many benefits to the data center but one area that has become increasingly challenging is storage performance management. Legacy storage was designed to allocate disk resources from physical storage arrays to physical…
In a recent Storage Switzerland write up, “Is Real-time Tiering the Next Big Thing in Storage?”, we explored Dot Hill’s AssuredSAN Pro 5000 disk array systems and their interesting data tiering technology. Dot Hill is a disk array manufacturer that’s…
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is now the norm at most large businesses and enterprises. Even those environments that don’t have a BYOD policy have seen the use of laptops proliferate. Users can now be productive anywhere, often on the…
Maybe someday every application will run in a cloud-ready, NOSQL environment from the start. But for now there are millions of legacy applications that businesses would like to move to the cloud. The problem is that the basic storage services…
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