Software Defined Storage (SDS) has fundamentally changed the way storage hardware is purchased by abstracting storage services from the physical hardware. But to reach its full potential SDS needs to go back to school. Watch this on demand webinar with…
Briefing Note: Hedvig Storage Driver for Flocker Delivers Persistent Storage for Docker Containers Docker is a container technology that virtualizes at a finer level of granularity than a virtual machine (VM). This finer granularity is more lightweight than a VM,…
Cisco July 2015 Briefing Note The enterprise data center is in transition, moving from a variety of scale-up applications and architectures to one where they scale-out. Scale-up designs are typically fibre channel based, where scale-out designs are usually IP based.…
IT professionals have more choices than ever to sort through as they try to make a storage decision. From a hardware perspective should they continue to use hard disks or should they start to move toward an all-flash data center?…
Initiatives like server virtualization, cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, and real-time analytics are allowing IT to meet today’s ever-increasing business demands. These initiatives are designed to bring agility to the data center, yet they trip and fall when they have to interact with…
The Violin Memory Systems “Disk is Dead” campaign says what needed to be said; disk, at least for the production use case, is dead or it least it should be. An autopsy done on the technology will find that it…
Briefing Note: Velostrata Many vendors and analysts have suggested that the hybrid cloud model is the best method for traditional data centers to adopt and leverage the cloud. But IT planners at traditional data centers remain unconvinced. There are simply…
High-Value Data is different from mission critical data. Mission critical data ensures the operation of the data center hour by hour. High-value data is critical data that organization has created but is not actively using but still needs to retain…
High-Performance Compute (HPC) and the storage infrastructure that supports it has long been considered a realm unto itself. Enterprise IT would have nothing to do with it. However, in the past decade, massive I/O bottlenecks have emerged throughout IT infrastructure…
In this MeetTheCEO, George Crump and I sit down with Paula Long, who was one of the co-founders of EqualLogic, the company that ignited the storage revolution, putting the big three storage companies on notice. EqualLogic brought enterprise features to…
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