Yearly Archives: 2014

The Top 5 StorageSwiss Articles for 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014 by George Crump

This is it, the final entry of the year for Storage Switzerland and where we announce the top 5 articles for 2014. But before we do, we want to wish all our readers a safe New Year’s Eve and a…

Tagged with: Cache, Efficiency, Hyper-converged, Latency, server-side storage, Software Defined, Storage Controller, VSAN
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StorageSwiss Top Articles of 2014 – Part 2

Posted on December 30, 2014 by Eric Slack

Every year we look at the articles and other content posted on StorageSwiss.com (this year over 800 pieces) to see which topics generated the most interest. As we mentioned in our blog counting down numbers 11-15, flash storage was one…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Flash, GRO, MLC, NAND Flash, RPO, RTO, SLC, SLO, SQL, SSD, Unstructured data, VRO
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StorageSwiss Top Articles of 2014

Posted on December 29, 2014 by George Crump

2014 was a big year at StorageSwiss.com. Thanks to our readers we saw record traffic to the site. As we close out each year, it’s interesting to review the top-read articles. In 2014’s list you’ll see two common themes, flash…

Tagged with: Backup, Flash, Flash Array, Multi-Tenant, performance, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Kaminario Delivers Encryption, Poised for 2015 Growth

Posted on December 23, 2014 by George Crump

Kaminario K2 Flash Arrays have traditionally appealed to the high performance demands of the data center. Their systems, for example, seem to be consistently near the top of SPC1 and SPC2 benchmarks; and don’t forget that their first storage systems…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Encryption, Flash, Kaminario, NAND, performance, Scale Up, Scale-Out
Posted in Briefing Note

Is your Data Protection Strategy on solid ground?

Posted on December 22, 2014 by George Crump

The EMC Global Data Protection Index, a study of the state of IT’s ability to protect and recover data, was recently released. The global index shows that 87% of businesses are rated behind the curve when it comes to protecting…

Webinar – Hyper-scale Nightmare -The Potential Consequences of using Consumer-grade Flash in the Data Center

Posted on December 22, 2014 by George Crump

Hyper-scale data centers (and many enterprises as well) face relentless pressure to contain costs. One way to lower those costs is to use consumer-grade solid-state drives in their scale-out server architectures, instead of the enterprise-class SSDs that are routinely used…

Tagged with: Flash, Hyper-scale, OCZ, performance, Reliability, SSD
Posted in Webinar

Ten IT Trends for 2015 from HDS and StorageSwiss

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Eric Slack

In a recent webinar Storage Switzerland Founder, George Crump, and HDS CTO, Hu Yoshida, discussed 10 IT Trends for 2015. A theme of this list was the importance of “business-defined IT” and the specific technologies that are coming to support…

Tagged with: Big data, Business-Defined, Cloud, Consolidation, Convergence, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyper-convergence, Trends
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All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Executive Summary When it comes to business transformation, numbers matter. For CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments systems processing and data analytics, the integration of EMC XtremIO led to a transformation of their workloads, their infrastructure,…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Consolidation, EMC, Flash, Hard disk drive, HDD, performance, Scale-Out, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, XtremIO
Posted in Article, Case Study

Analyst Opinion: Analyzing the Gartner Magic Quadrant

Posted on December 18, 2014 by George Crump

Gartner recently released its Magic Quadrant for storage. While I don’t always agree with their positioning, it is a reasoned analysis and I’m sure they can defend the various positioning of vendors they are tracking. It also gives other analyst…