Mission-critical data protection can make or break your company. You lose certain files and you are in very deep trouble. To talk about mission-critical data protection and its importance is Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst and Founder George Crump and Director…
Watch this ChalkTalk Video with Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump to learn the four steps to getting all-flash performance from a hybrid array. Hybrid arrays have a clear price advantage over all-flash storage systems because they leverage hard disk…
New year “top business trends” analyses make for interesting reading, but they’re more than that. They often end up framing the objectives that IT strives to reach in the coming year, so understanding these trends and how IT should respond…
When a storage system is purchased, the hope is that it will meet the storage performance and capacity demands of the data center for 3-5 years. Thanks to the changing compute environment and capabilities available from new storage systems, it…
Storage Switzerland’s webinars produce interesting results from the poll questions we ask. For example we asked “what is your biggest backup challenge” during a webinar with Scott Baker, Director of Enterprise Data Protection from HP and Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump.…
In this video we give you a preview of a webinar on Software Defined Storage. Is this technology ready for prime time? Join George Crump as he Chalk-Talk’s us through Software Defined Storage. Watch the webinar on demand by clicking here.
We have advised IT professionals that all future primary storage purchases be either hybrid or all-flash arrays for several years now. The value derived from these solutions include increased virtual machine (desktop and server) density, applications that can support more…
There is a small percentage of unstructured data that needs high performance, potentially even flash based storage but there is a much larger percentage that requires cost effective capacity. Premium NAS systems meet the performance demand of the first type, but there is room for improvement for the second type where cost efficient storage is so important. In this article George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst discusses the need for a new type of Hybrid NAS, one that integrates disk and tape, instead of disk and flash.
Deduplication, along with compression, provides the ability to more efficiently use premium priced flash capacity. But capacity efficiency comes with at least some performance impact. This is especially true on all-flash arrays where data efficiency features can’t hide behind hard…
Recently we sat down with Wim Provost, Product Manager for Open vStorage, for a podcast to discuss their new solutions that better enable OpenStack to run virtual machines. OpenStack is a set of open source software tools, typically used by…
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