For most companies that are considering flash-based SSDs it’s no longer a question of whether they’ll implement solid state drives, but when and how. In this video George Crump, Lead Analyst From Storage Switzerland and Micron’s Sr. Manager of Enterprise…
Yearly Archives: 2014
ChalkTalk Video: SSD Trends in 2014 – Flash moves from Option to Requirement
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Flash memory, Micron, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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Data Protection In The Cloud Age
What does the record turntable and a mainframe computer have in common? Plenty, according to Guy Churchward, President of EMC’s Data Protection and Availability Division. During EMC World 2014, Guy made an interesting comparison about how both the music industry…
Tagged with: as-a-Service, Avamar, Data Domain, Data Protection, Deduplication, Disk Based Backup, EMC, PBBA, Protection
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Avere Cloud NAS Product Summary
IT organizations have been continually asked to do more with less, but how do you squeeze blood out of a stone? With soaring data growth rates and more demands being placed on existing storage assets by data intensive systems like…
Stopping Storage Performance Sprawl
Flash storage is often the solution of choice for accelerating business applications. But with flash popping up all across the data center in various places – server-side flash, array based flash and even network based flash – organizations may be…
Panel Discussion: Maximum VM Density Requires Optimal Storage Networking and Operational Transparency
The key to maximum and sustainable return on investment (ROI) of a virtual infrastructure is to achieve the highest possible virtual machine (VM) density per physical server host. The problem is that the more densely populated a physical server is…
Tagged with: Brocade, Density, Operational Transparency, ROI, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware
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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: File Share, Replication, SDS, server-side storage, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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Hybrid Cloud Now – Practical Strategies For Integrating Primary Storage with Cloud Storage
In the traditional data center, leveraging the cloud for anything more than backup seems like a futuristic pipe dream. While some data centers may be using a cloud service for backups and potentially disaster recovery, the thought of using the…
Tagged with: Avere, Cloud, Cloud Gateway, Cloud NAS, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Scalability
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How a NAS can be the IT Upgrade an SMB Needs
When a small company is in a business that leverages online interactions with their customers they’re committing themselves to providing the kind of uptime, accuracy and responsiveness that the general public is used to. For many small to medium-sized businesses…
The Real ROI of SMB Cloud vs. SMB NAS
Small businesses can range in size from a few employees to a few hundred and the IT needs of these organizations are similarly varied. As they climb their way up from “small” and into “medium” those IT needs evolve, one…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Sharing, Data Protection, NAS, ROI, SMB, TCO, Western Digital
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The New Storage Center for SMBs – Podcast
Small to medium-sized businesses have special needs for their data centers. I recently sat down with Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Eric Slack and WD Senior Product Line Manager Paul Chen to talk about how SMBs can use the cloud. Click…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud and the Data Center, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, SMB, Western Digital
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