What is the deal with all of the venture capital flying into the storage business? George Crump, Eric Slack and Charlie Hodges go into depth on this in this week’s Storage News podcast. We also look at whether it’s time…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Weekly Storage Podcast – 5-29 – What’s The Deal With VC Money Flying Into Storage?
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Software Defined Deduplication for the Cloud
Unlike cloud compute which can scale up and down on the fly, cloud storage is more permanent. While organizations that use cloud storage only pay for the exact storage they are consuming, they do also pay for that storage month…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, Cloud, Efficiency, Permabit, Scale, Software Defined
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All-Flash Case Study: The Clutch Group – 85% Faster Apps
Which came first, the Success or the Flash? It is said that success breeds success, but sometimes success breeds flash which then breeds more success. This was the case for Litigation Consulting and Compliance firm, The Clutch Group. After landing…
StorageShort: What is Vendor-defined SDS and does it benefit the user?
SDS promises to deliver a number of benefits to end users, including flexibility, management simplicity and cost savings. Storage vendors can also leverage SDS technologies, but many do it for their own benefits. In this Storage Short, Storage Switzerland Founder,…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Hyper-convergence, Nexenta, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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StorageShort: Is SDS Ready for Production?
A recent webinar poll of the audience showed that over half were concerned that SDS wasn’t really ‘ready for prime time’. In this storage short, George Crump and Thomas Cornley from Nexenta discuss what makes SDS solutions appropriate for mission-critical,…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Hyper-convergence, Nexenta, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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Briefing Note: Is it time to Hyper-converge Backups?
Convergence and hyper-convergence are two concepts that have proven to be very popular with data centers, allowing them to shorten implementation times and in some cases condense the IT stack to simplify operations and support. But these concepts have mostly…
Tagged with: Compression, Convergence, Data Protection, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyper-convergence, Replication, Rubrik
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Storage News and Insights for the week of 5-22
This week’s look at news and notes features George Crump and Eric Slack talking to Charlie Hodges about issues ranging from VVols, the importance of Quality of Service in Storage and a deep talk on a claim that “disk is…
Flash Showdown – Which Flash is best for MS-SQL, Server or Shared?
In our on-demand webinar “Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL?” one of the polling questions delivered a surprising result; 67% of respondents that were using flash to accelerate MS-SQL, were using flash inside of the server, instead of shared flash on the…
Virtualization is Critical to the Always-On Data Center
The concept of an always-on application has been a reality for years thanks to clustered applications and add-on High Availability (HA) software, but meeting this expectation can be expensive and complicated. Expand the scope beyond a single application, to an entire…
Tagged with: Backup, ExaGrid, QOS, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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StorageShort: The Strength of Disk vs. Flash
It seems that some all-flash vendors are quick to write off hard disk drives (HDD) with some even pronouncing HDDs dead. But disks have a role to play in the data center and even for primary storage. HDDs still have…
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