Yearly Archives: 2015

June 12 Storage Analysis and Insight – What are VVols and how do we use them?

Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump sits down with Charlie Hodges to talk about VVols. We go in-depth on the the subject from what they are and how you can use them, to why some think they aren’t necessary. We also

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Software Defined Storage needs Automation and Orchestration

Software Defined Storage (SDS) provides the ability for multiple storage hardware elements to be managed through software, enabling a data center to have a common interface to pool, provision and protect storage assets across vendor platforms. This basic abstraction is a

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Beat a 4 Hour RPO-RTO Without Breaking the Bank

The Recovery Gap Storage Switzerland’s latest webinar, now available on demand, discussed ways that IT professionals could create the “Always-on Data Center”. In that webinar we asked a polling question that had surprising results. Over 89% of the attendees could

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ChalkTalk Video: Must Haves for Next Generation Software Defined Storage

Software Defined Storage (SDS) has fundamentally changed the data center and holds great promise as organizations try to meet the performance demands of applications and users while driving down storage management costs. But the current generation of SDS needs to

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MeetTheCEO: Gridstore’s George Symons

In our latest Meet The CEO podcast, join George Crump as we “meet” George Symons, veteran of the Storage Industry and CEO of Gridstore. George has over 20 years of experience in IT Infrastructure and in this podcast we talk

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Exclusive Paper: Ready for the Next Generation of Software Defined Storage?

The first generation of Software Defined Storage (SDS 1.0) was an important step forward for storage management, as it opened up choice within the data center while bringing some semblance of centralized management. SDS 2.0 takes the next step by

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Briefing Note: HDS Acquires Pentaho to bring Big Data Analytics to the Masses

HDS just announced it’s completed the acquisition of analytics platform manufacturer Pentaho, a move that’s been in the works for several months. As expected from an established player in the storage space, HDS has been focused on Big Data Analytics,

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Webinar: Three Reasons SDS needs to go Back to School

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

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June 5 Storage News and Insights

George Crump and Charlie Hodges talk about Open Source: What it is and how it will change the storage landscape. Then we hit on Pure Storage and its announcement of the M Series, it makes the All-Flash Array that is

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Podcast: Why Minor Disasters can be the Most Dangerous to Your Company

Everyone knows about the disasters that make the news, but these aren’t the events that carry the biggest risk for most companies. Minor disasters, things like service attacks, system failure, or plain old human error are much more likely to

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