Software defined storage (SDS) is the abstraction of storage services and control from the underlying storage hardware. One of its promises is the elimination of vendor lock-in. But, as we have criticized in the past, this freedom comes at a…
Yearly Archives: 2015
EMC World 2015 – Open Sourcing SDS
Tagged with: EMC, EMCworld2015, Open Source, SDS, Software Defined Storage, software layer, storage services, ViPR
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EMC World 2015 – Plotting a Path to the Hybrid Cloud
As we enter the hybrid cloud era one of the biggest challenges facing customers is how to get there. The most common approach is to use the cloud as secondary storage. Typically the cloud is either a primary backup repository or a…
EMC World 2015 – From PBBA to Protection Storage
While the basic backup process will probably always be the foundational component of data protection, IT professionals are demanding more from the data protection process, functions like replication, archive, snapshot management and application availability. Purpose Built Backup Appliances (PBBA) need…
Tagged with: Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, EMCworld2015, PBBA, RPO, RTO
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EMC World Podcast – Day 1 Wrap
George Crump joins me on the podcast from EMC World in Las Vegas. In this episode we wrap up George’s coverage of day 1. Listen as we discuss not only the news, but how that news will impact IT professionals…
EMC World 2015 – Building a Data Services Community with FAST.X
One of the challenges facing almost every IT organization is storage system sprawl, a problem that is increasing. When we visit a data center there is often a storage system for each workload; one for virtual desktops, one for virtual servers, one for…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Briefing Note, Cloud storage, Elas, EMC, EMCworld2015, Object Storage, VMAX
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EMC World 2015 – XtremIO Achieves Data Center Scale
The most common question that we are asked by IT planners considering an all-flash array is “can the data center really become all-flash?”. The answer is yes but that requires that the all-flash array achieve data center scale. This means…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Briefing Note, Disaster recovery, EMC, EMCworld2015, Scale-Out, XtremIO
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EMC World 2015 – Simplifying HyperConvergence – VxRack
EMC was one of the first companies to roll out a converged infrastructure when they created VCE, a turnkey solution that combined VMware, CISCO server/networking technology and EMC storage called “vBlock”. VCE and others like it significantly reduced the time it took…
Tagged with: Briefing Note, Converged, EMC, EMCworld2015, Hyper-converged, VSPEX
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Conventional Storage QoS falls short on VMware and Virtualized Workloads
An increasing number of storage systems are coming to market with Quality of Service (QoS) functionality that allows an administrator to guarantee and in some cases, limit the amount of storage performance that a VMware or other virtualized workloads will…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, IOPS, LUN, performance, QOS, Shared Storage, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Storage News and Analysis for the week of 5-01
George Crump and Eric Slack join Charlie Hodges on this week’s Storage News and Insights podcast from Storage Switzerland. We discuss the Top 5 Overused Terms in Storage, as well as updates on happenings in the Storage Industry. Show Notes…
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Previewing EMC World 2015
EMC World has evolved into one of the largest storage events in the industry, taking second place only to VMworld. While the event clearly has an EMC bend to it (it is after all EMC World) there are plenty of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, EMC, EMC World, ViPR, XtremIO
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