Yearly Archives: 2015

Cost Justifying Flash For VDI Storage

Posted on March 30, 2015 by George Crump

Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) make a big promise to the data center manager; to substantially drive down the cost of supporting user desktops and laptops while increasing the security for them. But for a VDI project to be successful the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, ChalkTalk, Cloning, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, SSD, Tegile, Thin provisioning, VM
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Storage News and Insight for the week of 3-28 – Podcast

Posted on March 28, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

George Crump and Eric Slack join me on this week’s News and Insights podcast from Storage Switzerland. Links to items we discussed in this week’s news and insights podcast: Hedvig brings software defined storage into focus OCZ Intrepid 3700 2…

Tagged with: Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Hedvig, high capacity disk drives, Hybrid, Mobile FAST, NAND Flash, OCZ, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Talon Storage
Posted in Podcast

How does Data Loss Happen and How can it be Stopped?

Posted on March 26, 2015 by George Crump

A recent blog by B&L Associates brought to light the problem of data loss. The entry cites surveys from Kroll Ontrack and EMC, which indicated that organizations see data loss as their single most significant risk and that the cost…

Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Data Loss, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Protection, Replication, Snapshots, TechTarget
Posted in Blog

Briefing Note: Hedvig brings Software Defined Storage into focus

Posted on March 25, 2015 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) may still be a fuzzy concept in the average data center but its promised deliverables are in clear focus. Data center managers are looking for ways to rapidly improve storage provisioning times while increasing overall flexibility.…

Tagged with: Cache, Flash, Infrastructure, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Sprawl, Unstructured data
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Briefing Note: OCZ Intrepid 3700 – 2TB Enterprise SSD priced for Hyper-scale Data Centers

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Eric Slack

Last November OCZ introduced a new type of high-capacity SSD, the Saber 1000, designed to provide enterprise-like performance and reliability for hyper-scale data centers, at a price point closer to consumer SSDs. But many data centers still needed more, so…

Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hyper-scale, Latency, MLC, NAND, OCZ, SSD
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IT Can’t Ignore the Video Surveillance Data Explosion

Posted on March 24, 2015 by George Crump

IT professionals are simultaneously being pulled in multiple directions. For most, data center management is more like triage than a well-engineered series of processes. As a result, IT managers and CIOs are very careful about which projects they “own”, which…

Tagged with: Architecture, Capacity, Hard disk, Retention, SpectraLogic, Surveillance
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The Criticality of Cabling Infrastructure in High Performance Storage Networking

Posted on March 24, 2015 by George Crump

Pushed by initiatives like high density virtualization, online database applications and low latency flash storage, fibre channel (FC) storage networking is entering a new era sooner than expected. These initiatives are forcing the move to 16Gb FC networking at a…

Tagged with: Cabling, Data Center Systems, FC, Fibre Channel, LAN, performance, Virtualization
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SlideShare: How Snapshots CAN be Backups

Posted on March 23, 2015 by George Crump

Snapshots have been a key feature of primary storage infrastructures that IT professionals have relied on for years. In fact, many use snapshots as their first recovery option when their primary data copy is compromised. But storage systems have traditionally…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots
Posted in Slideshare