George Crump, Lead Analyst – Storage Switzerland All-Flash Storage Arrays have quickly become the go to option to solve storage performance challenges. Thanks to data efficiency technologies that reduce the effective cost per gigabyte (GB), the appeal of All-Flash Arrays…
Yearly Archives: 2013
All-Flash Storage Efficiency Is About More Than Deduplication
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data deduplication, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Permabit
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Maximizing Value in VMware Caching
Maximizing the value of a VMware caching solution involves more than developing algorithms to determine the hottest data and figuring out ways to keep that data in the cache. It also means getting the most out of that expensive flash…
Tagged with: Flash memory, FlashSoft, OpenVMS, SanDisk, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMDK, VMware, VMware vSphere
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Can Deep Storage Help Cloud Providers Keep their Promise?
Cloud file storage and cloud-based services have historically relied on an interesting strategy, sometimes called a “Free-mium” business model. They offer a free service, typically a stripped down version of their regular product, and encourage users to upgrade to the…
Tagged with: Amazon, Cloud, IBM, Linear Tape File System, Linear Tape-Open, LTFS, SoftLayer, SpectraLogic
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Copy Data in the Cloud
While industry pundits and analysts yammer on about the unrelenting growth of data, the real issue for enterprise data centers and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), is keeping a lid on the extensive number of redundant copies of information that propagate…
Tagged with: Actifio, Business, Cloud, Data management, HP-UX, IBM, SAP AG, SNW Europe, VMware
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Storage Management – It’s Back on the Shopping List
Storage management tools have sometimes been viewed as a “nice to have” tool by many IT infrastructure planners, however, given all the complexities with efficiently managing resources in today’s highly virtualized server environments, it is quickly turning into a must…
Seagate Delivers a Cloud-Ready Hard Drive
Content, especially large data objects like videos and pictures, is the storage ‘elephant in the room’ for cloud providers. It’s big and can be overwhelming for their traditional storage infrastructures. But it’s also manageable with the right strategy and the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Computer data storage, Ethernet, File server, Seagate, Solid-state drive
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Stopping Storage System Sprawl
Unstructured data can come from a variety of sources including traditional office productivity files, rich media or data generated by sensors and cameras. It can also come from semi-structured environments like Exchange and SharePoint. Even though each of these examples…
Tagged with: Data Defined Storage, Data management, Microsoft SharePoint, Network-attached storage, SharePoint, SNW Europe, Tarmin, Unstructured data
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Predictable Virtual Server Performance for Less
For many storage planners it is a daunting task to size their virtual storage infrastructure “just right”, without needless overspending. Indeed, this is becoming increasingly difficult to attain given the high degree of I/O workload variability that multiple virtual machines…
Tagged with: Cloud, Quality of service, SNW Europe, Software Defined Storage, Storage virtualization, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine, VMware
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Dot Hill Delivers Storage for the Real World Data Center
From high density virtualization to software-defined infrastructures, changes in technology are coming fast. And keeping up with these changes is pushing IT staffs in the real world data center to the breaking point. This means detailed storage design and planning…
Tagged with: Dot Hill, Fibre Channel, Hardware, ISCSI, SNW Europe, Storage, Virtualization
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Neos Ventures Helps Enterprises To The Cloud
You can’t get enough good help these days; particularly when it comes to deploying and managing virtualized cloud infrastructure. IT global solutions provider, Neos Ventures, is positioning themselves as a leading player in the burgeoning cloud infrastructure services market to…
Tagged with: Business, Cloud, IBM, Neos Ventures, SNW Europe, Software as a service, VMware
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