When non-volatile flash memory-based solid-state drives (SSDs) were introduced, the protocol support included SAS/SATA. These interfaces were designed for hard disk drives (HDDs) and had more latency than was ideal for flash, but it made for easier integration of SSDs…
The CEO of Unitrends, Kevin Weiss, sits down with Storage Switzerland founder and lead analyst George Crump and the voice of Storage Switzerland, Charlie Hodges. We talk about life before Unitrends, why Mr. Weiss thinks Unitrends is uniquely positioned to…
Software defined storage (SDS) has been a common term in the data center for several years now. Its definition, for the most part is very similar to its predecessor, storage virtualization. Both concepts attempted to abstract data services from the…
Storage, the Bump in the 16Gb Road 16 Gbps (Gen 5) Fibre Channel (FC) has been available for several years and it is an ideal network choice for storage systems that count on flash to meet the performance demands of…
The Bad Day Begins A message arrives on your smart phone indicating that the organization’s primary storage system is offline. All the applications that you were counting on it are down, and users can’t get their work done. Further investigation determines that this…
Virtualized Windows applications suffer from two I/O taxes. First, there is the tax of the I/O blender caused by mixing dozens of VMs on a single server, and then connecting multiple servers to a shared storage array that creates a…
Even though users and application owners are demanding it, the Always-On Data Center seems unrealistic to most IT professionals. Overcoming the cost and complexity of an Always-On environment while delivering consistent results is almost too much to ask. But the…
Meeting a strict recovery point and recovery time objective requires more frequent backups and the ability to recover without transferring data. In this 74 second video we tell you how to meet strict RPO/RTOs. For more details watch our on-demand…
In a recent article, Storage Switzerland discussed the storage challenges associated with Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). But instead of focusing on the typical performance challenges associated with VDI, like boot storms and data efficiency,…
Small to medium sized business (SMB) are a great target for hyper-converged architectures because SMBs don’t typically have the application requirements that would justify dedicated compute and storage hardware. The problem is that many hyper-converged architectures (HCAs) are too expensive…
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