In a competition that many had pronounced over, Microsoft’s Hyper-V is now a viable candidate in both the SMB, the remote office and even the enterprise data center. It brings the key virtualization features that most data centers at a…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Webinar – Web-scale vs. Enterprise IT
Get the Best of Web-Scale and Enterprise IT for Business Applications The utilization efficiency, flexibility and scalability of Web-scale architectures appeal to the more traditional data center, but Enterprise IT needs the ability to run existing, Windows back-office applications and…
Tagged with: Architecture, Backup, Compatibility, Disaster recovery, Nutanix, Web-scale
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
Archiving to Amazon from your Private Cloud Storage
The only predictable aspect of unstructured data is that it will continue to grow almost unabated. Meeting today’s capacity requirements of unstructured data can largely be handled when organizations deploy private cloud storage, also known as object storage. The more…
Tagged with: Amazon, Archive, Cloudian, Hybrid Cloud, Object Storage, Private Cloud
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
DDN goes the last mile in commercial HPC
Where once the purview of research labs and high-transaction applications, high performance computing (HPC) is now making its way into mainstream IT. Enterprises are finding out the value of analytics for keeping abreast of their customers and ahead of the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data migration, DDN, High Performance Computing, HPC, Object Storage
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
The ROI of old servers with new connectivity
The storage network is falling behind and is becoming a key roadblock to major data center initiatives like improving virtualization return on investment (ROI), tapping into the power of analytics and enabling personalized online customer experiences. As these and other…
Tagged with: Brocade, Connectivity, Fibre Channel, networking, performance, ROI, Server
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Intelligent File Sync and Share by Oxygen Cloud
For the past few years, a wide variety of vendors have come to market with file sync and share solutions that were designed to replace consumer solutions that had made their way into the enterprise. Most addressed key shortfalls by…
Not your father’s Compression – Permabit delivers HIOPS Compression
Compression has been available in one form or another for decades, but most of the time compression is applied as data is moving off of primary storage. For example, most backup software or hardware compresses data as it moves into…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, HIOPS, Permabit, Replication, Thin provisioning
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Converged Architecture for the rest of us?
A converged architecture looks good on the whiteboard, with all your services (compute, network, storage) running on a single layer within the data center. But like many technologies, the transition from whiteboard to actual implementation and operation is much more…
Tagged with: Converged Architecture, Hypervisor, IOPS, NIMBOXX, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Is Atlantis USX the future of Software Defined Storage?
Software Defined Storage (SDS) has certainly caught the attention of IT planners looking to reduce the cost of storage by liberating them from traditional storage hardware lock-in. As SDS evolves the promise of lower storage CAPEX, increased deployment and architecture…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Atlantis, Data Protection, NAS, RAM, SAN, SDS, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
EMC acquires TwinStrata – innovation through acquisition
During EMC World this past May, EMC CEO Joe Tucci stated that EMC’s dual innovation strategy will consist of dedicating 10% of their annual revenues towards R&D and acquisitions. True to his word, EMC announced today that they have acquired…
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