Yearly Archives: 2014

Why users hate VDI – and why that’s a problem

Posted on September 30, 2014 by Eric Slack

VDI makes sense, at least from IT’s perspective. It can provide some cost savings in hardware and software, can improve operational efficiency and deliver better control over the company’s data. For these reasons the IT manager and the CIO love…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Cache, Cost Effective, Desktop Density, IBM, performance, Persistence, Server Side Flash, SSD, VDI, Virtual desktop
Posted in Blog

Overcoming the challenges of Server Side Network Storage

Posted on September 30, 2014 by George Crump

Server side network storage (SSNS) is attracting the attention of many data center planners. It aggregates internal server storage and presents that storage as a sharable virtual volume. Virtual machines access this shared volume no matter what host they are…

Tagged with: Converged System, Data Protection, Gridstore, Infrastructure, Network Storage, RAID, Server-side, Shared Storage, SSNS, Virtual machine, VM
Posted in Video

Backup success needs a fresh approach

Posted on September 29, 2014 by George Crump

Data protection is something that seems so simple, all you have to do is copy data from primary storage to secondary storage. The process becomes complex, however, as you add requirements like backing up live data non-disruptively while also enabling…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Synnex
Posted in Blog

New requirements for Enterprise Disk Backup

Posted on September 29, 2014 by George Crump

For a disk backup appliance to be deemed “enterprise” it had to be able to perform well and provide more capacity expansion than non-enterprise class appliances, while still being almost as cost effective as its mid-range brethren. But with the…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Deduplication, Disk, High Availability, I/O, NEC, Recovery, Scaling, Virtualization
Posted in Article

What to look for in an All-Flash System

Posted on September 26, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Initially, IT organizations often deploy an all-flash storage system to solve a performance problem for a specific application workload. Then, unfortunately, they become a victim of their own success. Often the initial experience with flash is so good that the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, CPU, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, performance, Scale-Out
Posted in Blog

Will the foundation of your Disaster Recovery plan collapse?

Posted on September 25, 2014 by George Crump

The ability to replicate data between data centers as it changes is an essential ingredient of any enterprise class storage system. Data centers count on this capability as the foundational component in their disaster recovery (DR) plans. But this foundation…

Tagged with: Array Based, Brocade, Disaster recovery, dr, Infrastructure, Replication, RPO, RTO, WAN
Posted in Article

4 assumptions that are killing your backup – Podcast

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Right after George Crump from Storage Switzerland and Gideon Senderov from NEC finished their webinar on four assumptions that are killing your backup, we got together in the podcast studio to talk about an intriguing discovery from their presentation. That’s the…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Deduplication, NEC, Recovery, Virtualization
Posted in Podcast

Making Veeam Backups better

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Colm Keegan

For many, there’s lots of room for improvement when it comes to protecting data in a virtualized environment. During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “The Five Ways Backup Design Can Impact Virtualized Data Protection”, we asked the audience what they…

Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Replication, Virtualization
Posted in Blog

Which All-flash Architecture do you prefer?

Posted on September 24, 2014 by George Crump

The title of this entry, “Which All-flash Architecture Do You Prefer?”, was actually a question asked on the LinkedIn group, “Storage: SAN, NAS“, a couple of days ago. It was in response to a recent post by Calvin Zito @HPStorageGuy…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Architecture, Backup, Capacity, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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Achieving the right RPO for your Virtualized Environment

Posted on September 24, 2014 by George Crump

Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is potentially the most important requirement to understand when protecting any application or environment. RPO is essentially the amount of data that will be lost when an application is recovered. The less frequent the protection the…