Need flash? Think all flash is the same? You might want to read the Q&A from a recent webinar we did with Doug Rollins at Micron. People attending the webinar asked the questions and Doug provides the answers, along with…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Storage Q&A with Jay Prassl, VP of Marketing at SolidFire
The Next Generation Data Center is a concept that companies like SolidFire use to describe an ideal of storage performance, scale, efficiency and management in multi-tenant cloud environments – public and private clouds. But more than an ideal, companies in…
Tagged with: Efficiency, Integration, Multi-Tenant, Next Generation Data Center, Object Storage, performance, Quality of service, Scale, SolidFire
Posted in Storage Q&A
Posted in Storage Q&A
The perfect Disk Backup for Virtualized Backups?
Disk Backup Appliance Designed for VMware?
With its support for SSD, the Drobo B1200i could be one of the most viable platforms for supporting random I/O generating changed block backups and data in-place recoveries, the capability to execute a VM directly from the backup target. In this product analysis, StorageSwiss examines the Drobo B1200i to see how it handles the new requirements of VM disk backup and recovery.
https://storageswiss.com/2014/06/19/perfect-disk-backup-virtualized-backups/
Tagged with: Deduplication, disk backup, Drobo, Hybrid, RAID, Recovery in Place, SMB, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtual Server, Virtualization
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Storage Q&A: Can File Sync and Share be made secure?
Data security has taken on a whole new level of importance in light of recent events like the Heartbleed bug and revelations that major cloud sites have had millions of user credentials compromised by hackers. Recently I sat down with…
Tagged with: Data center, Data Protection, File Sharing, File Sync, file sync and share, PanTerra, Security
Posted in Storage Q&A
Posted in Storage Q&A
Storage Q&A: with Ron Bianchini, CEO of Avere Systems
Recently we had a very well-attended webinar with the CEO of Avere Systems, Ron Bianchini, “Five Keys To A Successful Hybrid Cloud Storage Strategy”. The following excerpt from the Q & A portion of the webinar discusses how businesses can…
Tagged with: Avere, Cloud, Cloud Gateway, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Scalability
Posted in Storage Q&A
Posted in Storage Q&A
Next Generation Storage needs integration, scale and performance
Various industry sources estimate that data is doubling approximately every two years and the largest subset of that growth is coming from unstructured data. User files, images, rich multimedia, machine sensor data and anything that lives outside of a database…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloudian, Hybrid Cloud, Integration, Next Generation, Object Storage, performance, Scale, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
ChalkTalk Video – Why in-place upgrades are essential for Unstructured Data Storage
We’re seeing an enormous growth in unstructured data, especially files that are seldom used but must still be saved. The question is where to put them. An object-based architecture is a widely talked about option, but the question then becomes…
Leveling the Cloud Backup playing field
How can regional Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) more effectively compete with behemoths like Amazon, Google and Microsoft? Cloud backup software manufacturer Asigra is taking a two-pronged approach, which they claim will help level the playing field for these small to…
Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Cloud Service Providers, Data Protection, disk backup
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
ChalkTalk Video – The Unique Hyper-V Storage Challenges
All virtualization environments place a strain on the storage infrastructure, making planning and design more critical than ever. But an advanced storage architecture drives up the cost of implementation. The relative cost of storage is a big concern in VMware…
Storage Q&A: How to improve Bare Metal Server performance
When people have issues with performance on a server, the first thing they think about is adding flash to that server for tiering or caching. It’s a logical first step. For most companies these servers are hosting their VMware environment,…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Bare Metal, I/O, SAN, SanDisk, Virtualization, VM Density
Posted in Storage Q&A
Posted in Storage Q&A
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