NetApp is great, but it can get pricey. David Cerf of Crossroads and Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump talk with me about how you can set your budget free by breaking out of the NetApp capacity jail. Click here to…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Break out of the NetApp jail – Podcast
Tagged with: Crossroads, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Flash memory, NAS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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Google-Like Storage on a budget
It wasn’t that long ago that most IT professionals would have considered 1 PB of data a gargantuan amount of information. Now, many data center environments are supporting large unstructured data repositories that are well in excess of this heady…
Designing cost effective Storage Systems for Hyper-V
In a competition that many had pronounced over, Microsoft’s Hyper-V is now a viable candidate in the SMB, the remote office and even the enterprise data center. It brings the key virtualization features that most data centers need while being…
The Internet of things that matter
At the Hitachi Data Systems analysts meeting in Colorado, the company discussed some important changes in the organization and an interesting initiative they’re calling “Social Innovation”. It’s a unique approach to what’s essentially a big data problem (and opportunity). This…
The All-Flash operating system for the Next Generation Data Center
All-flash solutions are fast, but not all flash solutions will solve your performance problems. In the enterprise, in the public and private clouds, speed alone isn’t enough. All-flash arrays should also be able to guarantee predictable service levels for each…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Fibre Channel, ISCSI, Next Generation Data Center, Scale-Out, SolidFire
Posted in Product Analysis
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Hyper-V Storage Commoditization
Today, many organizations are considering Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform as an alternative to market behemoth, VMware. But the key to fully delivering on the lower total cost of ownership (TCO) value proposition that Hyper-V offers, is commoditizing the storage infrastructure…
Tagged with: HDD, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, SDS, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Starwind Software, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Blog
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Webinar: Should your Storage be Virtualized, Software Defined or none of the above?
Whether you are planning to upgrade your current storage system or getting ready for a complete storage refresh, today’s IT planner has more storage choices than ever. A key decision is how you will access critical storage services like volume…
Tagged with: Scale-Out, server-side storage, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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Posted in Webinar
The Storage Architect and the DBA
Three Steps To A Productive Relationship That Ensures Optimal Database Performance When database performance issues arise, the finger of blame is often pointed at the storage infrastructure, and this can lead to conflict between the database administrator and the storage…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Database Performance, DBA, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, PCIe, SolarWinds, SSD
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Shining a light on Shadow IT
IT Cloak and Dagger With the advent of cloud computing, all it takes is the swipe of a credit card to instantly get more storage capacity. Likewise, some users may just opt to purchase their own physical storage and keep…
Increase performance, lower Storage costs in a single solution
In general, IT organizations have been conditioned to think that the only way to obtain higher storage performance and to gain additional storage capacity is to periodically upgrade their storage infrastructure. While storage system upgrades can provide a boost in…
Tagged with: Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Cloud NAS, NAS, performance, VDI, Virtualization
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