In the last few months, I’ve heard several Fortune 100 company CEOs claim that they are software companies first, manufacturers of products second. These CEOs are not from high-tech startups, instead most of them are makers of everyday items like…
Yearly Archives: 2015
ownCloud 8.1 Extends Beyond File Sync and Share
The Need to Share The wide spread proliferation of public file sync and share services like Dropbox, Box and various others, make it very easy to share almost any type of file regardless of its size, with anyone you want.…
Tagged with: Encryption, file sync and share, FS&S, ownCloud, performance, Scale, Shadow IT
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
The Hardware Requirements for Software Defined Storage
The two key benefits of Software Defined Storage (SDS) are increased flexibility and improved storage economics. Ironically, for organizations that standardize on a SDS solution, their flexibility and cost savings are restricted by storage hardware, which of course is still…
Tagged with: Cloud, Infrastructure, RAID, Scale, SDS, Software Defined Storage, VDI, Virtualization, X-IO
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Integrating Data Value into Primary Storage
Briefing Note: DataGravity Discovery Series V2 Data is an asset and for many organizations it is more valuable than the hardware on which it resides. Despite its value, few storage systems do anything to help IT professionals understand what is…
Tagged with: DataGravity, Flash, Hard disk, Integration, Primary Storage, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
The Cloud for Primary Storage – How to get it right
Briefing Note: ClearSky Comes Out of Stealth For many organizations, the thought of letting someone else manage their storage infrastructure is appealing. The cost and time required to acquire, maintain, manage and migrate storage is overwhelming and these organizations are…
Virtual Instruments Extends VirtualWisdom Capabilities with 4.3 Release
Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom 4.3 Briefing Note Today’s data center is dealing with tight budgets, demands for increased storage efficiency and of course higher application performance and availability. In the past, data centers addressed these competing interests by purchasing hardware designed…
Tagged with: Efficiency, Infrastructure, performance, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
ChalkTalk Video: Is More Flash or Spindles the only Answer to the VMware I/O Blender?
The VMware I/O blender is caused by multiple virtual machines generating random I/O at the hypervisor layer that bottlenecks storage systems. Adding more flash or spindles seems like the quick fix to this problem. The noise at the I/O blender…
Tagged with: Condusiv, Flash, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, SAN, Virtualization, VM, VMworld
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
ChalkTalk Video: Making 3D TLC NAND Ready for the Enterprise
3D TLC NAND promises to bring new levels of density to flash storage and with it new record low price points. The effective dollar per GB of a 3D TLC All-Flash Array could make hybrid arrays obsolete. The challenge is…
ChalkTalk Video: How to Create Highly Dense, Solid Performing Storage Infrastructures
When you are storing petabytes of information, saving pennies a gigabyte can make a big difference. Not only do pennies make a difference for cloud service providers, online application providers and managed service providers but so does density. The ability…
ChalkTalk Video: Web-Scale Storage Solutions for Mid-Tier Data Centers
Mid-market data centers face big challenges when dealing with secondary data like backups, archives and simply dealing with unstructured data. This data can amount to 80% or more of the total data center storage capacity footprint. Ideally these data centers…
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