When a data center considers an all-flash array, it is generally in response to a storage performance demand for a specific application. In other words, it is a point solution to an immediate and pressing problem. For this particular situation,…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Kaminario Delivers Scale Right – All Flash Array
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Kaminario, performance, Scale Right
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
SlideShare – Three keys to choosing the right Server Flash
Flash Solid State Disks (SSD) installed inside a server have become the first stop for data center managers looking to solve various storage performance challenges. And their interest has not gone unnoticed. In fact, the response of the flash supplier…
Server Side Storage, defined for Hyper-V
Many businesses are adopting hypervisor platforms like Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology to reduce their server virtualization total cost of ownership. Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) and corporations with multiple remote office locations, in particular, are leveraging the economies of…
Tagged with: High Availability, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, SAN, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtual, Virtual machine
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
SlideShare – Storage Requirements For the Next Generation Data Center
The Next Generation Data Center is HERE. These data centers are highly virtualized environments with extremely high virtual machine densities. They thrive on flexibility and cost efficiency. While most of these data centers are in the hands of cloud service…
Storage Q&A: An SMB NAS that brings the Cloud to Small Businesses
For many small to medium sized businesses (SMBs), the cloud may be intimidating. It sounds appealing but they think it’s too expensive or too complex for their business. WD is trying to dispel those notions with a line of products…
Don’t let storage eat your Hyper-V savings – Podcast
Hyper-V is a coming technology that is taking VMware head-on. We will have a special webinar on Hyper-V Wednesday, June 25. George Crump and I talk about that webinar in this podcast. StarWind Software is a client of Storage Switzerland…
The IRS’ lost emails – bad procedure or bad lie?
The recent news that the IRS “lost” Lois Lerner’s e-mails has been making headlines in the news media, but not so much in data protection circles. That may be because any data protection expert knows that this claim simply makes…
How to overcome the four obstacles to Cloud Storage
Business executive and IT professionals alike often share many of the same concerns when it comes to the use of cloud storage. But generally, there are four primary obstacles that businesses need to address before embracing the use of the…
Tagged with: Backup, Capacity, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Encryption, Hybrid Cloud, Integration, Nasuni, performance, RPO, Security
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
A new kind of company – SanDisk and Fusion-io
The news this week that SanDisk is buying Fusion-io for over $1 Billion dollars is something to pay attention to. If the acquisition goes through, SanDisk becomes a formidable competitor to a wide variety of companies in the storage and…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Buy-out, Flash, Fusion-io, OEM, SanDisk, Shared Storage, SSD
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Clustered HA Storage for the masses
Many organizations rely on large databases, such as SQL Server, SAP, and Oracle, to run their most mission critical business applications. But the cost of implementing application high availability (HA) and continuous data protection through a clustered storage infrastructure in…
Tagged with: Cluster, High Availability, SAN, SANLess, Shared Storage, SIOS, SQL
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
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