Cloud backup solution provider Zetta.net recently surveyed over 400 IT professionals from a wide range of industries, asking questions like what types of backups were being done, what operating systems were being protected, how virtualized the environment was, and how…
It has often been said that if you could afford an all-flash data center you would definitely want one. Going all-flash is not just attractive because of the gains in performance that applications will see but also because of how…
There is a tug of war that occurs when designing storage for a virtual desktop infrastructure. Flash solves a lot of problems and provides users with an excellent desktop experience, but it can also upset the delicate price per desktop…
Data protection is about much more than the successful completion of backup jobs. While the backup part of the process has value, its role has shifted to providing point-in-time versions of data instead of being the primary point of recovery.…
Standard deduplication is the elimination of redundant data on a single storage system. Whether that system is used for backup or primary data, the goal is to put as much data as possible on a single storage system so that…
When it comes to defining specific parts of the storage industry the definition should be as general as possible, avoiding vendor specifics while not being so generic that it becomes useless and doesn’t categorize anything. We’ve successfully applied this philosophy…
Exablox just received a new funding round of $16M, bringing their funding total to $38.5M since inception four years ago. One of those investors is Dell Ventures. On a briefing call recently, Exablox made it clear that this is not…
The interest in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is at an all-time high and data center operators want to know if now is the time to move towards this type of a storage infrastructure. In our latest workshop series “Software Defined Storage…
Applications are often the key service that data centers provide to their organizations. The speed at which these applications can respond to the user’s requests is often THE measurement of how IT is perceived by the organization. As a result…
Hyper-scale data centers (and many enterprises as well) face relentless pressure to contain costs. One way to lower those costs is to use consumer-grade solid-state drives in their scale-out server architectures, instead of the enterprise-class SSDs that are routinely used…
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