After a busy day of shooting ChalkTalk videos Storage Switzerland took to the streets of San Francisco to see what was going on after hours. Our first stop of the night was an event at the Thirsty Bear, hosted by…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Hybrid Arrays in an All-Flash World
As the price of flash continues to come down, I am often asked by IT professionals what the role for hybrid arrays will be since all-flash arrays are beginning to reach price parity with high performance disk based systems. As…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Hybrid Storage, SSD, Tegile
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
Performance Management is Broken
Performance management in today’s data center environment is broken. Between physical server silos, virtualized infrastructure, storage resources and networking devices, data center managers have to navigate through a plethora of management interfaces to diagnose application performance issues. The lack of…
Tagged with: performance, Software Defined, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
Storage Q&A: How can the Enterprise embrace Web-scale?
Enterprise data centers are looking longingly at web-scale cloud providers. They envy the cloud providers’ ability to scale rapidly so they can meet performance and capacity demands. They also envy the cloud providers’ cost effectiveness of the designs. In this…
Tagged with: Architecture, Nutanix, performance, Scale, Software Defined, Web-scale
Posted in Storage Q&A
Posted in Storage Q&A
Intel’s Greg Scott on the Storage Developer’s Conference – Podcast
SNIA will hold a Storage Developer’s Conference from September 15 through 18 in Santa Clara, California. It’a a great chance for software developers to fine-tune their craft. Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump joins me to talk to Greg Scott,…
How to meet the expectations of a VDI Project
VDI can be one of the toughest projects an IT organization has to implement, due in a large part to the expectations of the groups involved. Replacing PCs with virtual desktops creates expectations with users that have to get their…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Atlantis, Data Protection, IBM, IOPS, performance, Software Defined Storage, VDI, Virtual desktop
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Storage Developers: This One’s For You
Most IT professionals go to a trade show to learn, after all, knowledge is the stock in trade for our industry. But what about the professionals in the storage eco-system, the individuals that actually create the solutions that IT professionals…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, File system, Flash, Memory, Object Storage, SDS, SNIA, Software, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
DR-as-a-Service may be the Cloud’s Killer App
Disaster Recovery could be the best implementation of the ‘as-a-Service’ business model yet because it fits the cloud delivery system so well and features an entirely different value proposition than other cloud services. DR-as-a-Service (DRaaS) offers more than the added…
Tagged with: as-a-Service, Baas, Backup as a Service, Disaster recovery, DR-as-a-Service, DRaaS, Recovery, Recovery Time Objective, RTO, SaaS, STaaS
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Enabling Service Level Data Protection – Dell’s Backup & Disaster Recovery Suite
The standardization of server and desktop virtualization, the uncontrollable growth of unstructured data and the increasing importance of databases are forcing IT planners to face reality and rethink their data protection strategies. While they still need to use enterprise backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Dell, Disaster, dr, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Storage Performance, the VDI challenge
When IT planners are asked to list their top challenges with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) they often come up with a variety of answers, like gaining user acceptance, delivering an experience similar to that of a stand-alone desktop or driving…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Atlantis, Data Protection, IBM, IOPS, performance, Software Defined Storage, VDI
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
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