Yearly Archives: 2014

Enterprise All-Flash – HP StoreServ 7450 All-Flash Array

Posted on August 15, 2014 by George Crump

The all-flash market is full of startups that have captured the attention of IT planners in data centers of all sizes. Now HP is out to get that attention back with their 7450 All-Flash Array. Many of these startup companies…

Tagged with: 3PAR, All-Flash Array, Availability, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HP, Next Generation, Tiering, VDI
Posted in Briefing Note

StorageSwiss Take on the HDS Acquisition of Sepaton

Posted on August 14, 2014 by George Crump

Yesterday, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced they had acquired Massachusetts-based Sepaton, an established manufacturer of purpose built backup appliances (PBBAs) that use advanced de-duplication to shorten backup times and minimize backup appliance “sprawl”. The company will become a wholly-owned subsidiary…

Tagged with: Acquisition, Backup, Deduplication, disk backup, Disk Based, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, PBBA, Sepaton
Posted in Blog

Storage Q&A: Is The Next Generation Data Center the “End-Game” for IT?

Posted on August 14, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The next generation data center is here. Highly virtualized servers, extreme VM density, thriving on flexibility, low cost and efficiency. So that’s the thumbnail look at this new data center concept. Here to talk about it in a little more…

Tagged with: Efficiency, Integration, Multi-Tenant, Next Generation Data Center, Object Storage, performance, Scale, SolidFire
Posted in Storage Q&A

SolidFire brings Agile Storage Infrastructure to the Enterprise

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Eric Slack

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) often walk on the edge of a knife. They have to supply the capacity and performance to meet their clients’ SLAs but still keep costs under control in a hyper-competitive environment. For their storage systems it’s…

Tagged with: Cloud Service Providers, Cluster, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, QOS, SLA, SolidFire
Posted in Briefing Note

StrongBox brings integrated Data Archiving to NetApp, Windows & Linux Storage

Posted on August 12, 2014 by George Crump

Overwhelmed by unstructured data, like images, video and files not in a database, enterprises are struggling to keep up with storage capacity needs, especially since budgets are flat. As we discussed in a recent article, “The 3 Problems With Adding…

Tagged with: Archive, CIFS, Crossroads, Efficiency, LTFS, Metadata, NAS, NFS, Unstructured data
Posted in Product Analysis

Controlling Storage Network Link Speed

Posted on August 11, 2014 by George Crump

Data center initiatives, like server and desktop virtualization, as well as the introduction of flash enhanced storage, have motivated storage managers to upgrade their storage networks sooner than they might have planned. But those storage managers would be wise to…

Tagged with: Brocade, Fibre Channel, QOS, Quality of service, VDI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
Posted in Blog

HGST upgrades Flash Acceleration hardware and software products

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Eric Slack

HGST, a division of longtime disk drive manufacturer Western Digital, announced updates for two products in the application acceleration market. FlashMAX III is the latest generation of half-height, half-length PCIe accelerator cards designed for high performance enterprise and hyper-scale environments.…

Tagged with: Deduplication, Disk Drive, Flash, Flash Acceleration, HGST, PCIe, performance, SSD, VeloBit, Western Digital
Posted in Briefing Note

Understanding the Oracle Data Protection Gap

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Colm Keegan

For many, snapshots are the go to data protection method for protecting Oracle databases. They can provide efficient, rapid protection from database corruption with high data integrity. But snapshot data protection has its limitations. First, snapshot copies can become corrupted…

Tagged with: Application Data, Backup, Backup and Recovery, Block Level Backup, EMC, Hybrid Data, Infrastructure, Protection, Server-less Backup
Posted in Article

Storage Wrap Episode 003 – Podcast

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The Flash Memory Summit just wrapped up in Santa Clara. The StorageSwiss team joins me to talk about the event and some of the big news coming from vendors at the show. Click Here To Sign Up For Our Newsletter

Tagged with: flash memory summit, flash storage, solid state storage, SSD, ssd storage
Posted in Podcast

XtremIO update at Flash Memory Summit

Posted on August 8, 2014 by George Crump

One of the headlines at this years Flash Memory Summit was the much broader participation of the traditional storage vendors. Dell, IBM, Hitachi and HP were all there. Not to be left out, EMC also had a presence and we…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Latency, Scale-Out, Snapshots, Thin provisioning, XtremIO
Posted in Briefing Note