Avere’s CEO Ron Bianchini joins us for our inaugural podcast with a CEO in the Storage Industry. Joining in on the conversation is Storage Switzerland Founder and Senior Analyst George Crump.
Yearly Archives: 2015
Storage news and insight update 3-21 – Podcast
George Crump joins me to talk about some of the latest in storage news and insight for the week of March 21, 2015. Links to the articles in this podcast: Qumulo delivers Next Generation, Data-Aware Scale-out NAS Physical Servers Matter…
StorageShort: All-Flash Arrays vs. cost per Desktop
One of the keys to success in VDI is all about getting user acceptance. A simple way to gain this acceptance is to implement an all-flash array. The problem is that the cost of an all-flash array can be at…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Hybrid, Hybrid array, performance, Tegile, VDI
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Posted in StorageShort
Analyst Blog: Cloud Storage is only as Risky as you make it
In a recent article our friends over at storagenewsletter.com asked an important question, “Is Cloud Storage Risky for Users?”. Our answer is that cloud storage is only as risky as you make it. In other words, an organization that’s planning…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, Encryption, File Sharing, Hybrid
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Analyst Blog: Is that all you got? Are All-Flash Arrays a one trick pony?
In a recent blog Tom Cook, CEO of Permabit declared that all-flash array vendors, which count on deduplication as their key advantage, are going to disappoint their investors or shareholders. His confidence comes from the rapid adoption of Permabit’s deduplication…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, Hybrid, Permabit, SSD
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Briefing Note: Qumulo delivers Next Generation, Data-Aware Scale-out NAS
Scale-out storage has a fundamental weakness, according to startup Qumulo, it can grow easily but also increases data management requirements as it does capacity. This means that as storage systems grow they get less efficient and more expensive to run,…
Tagged with: Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, NAS, Object, performance, Qumulo, Scale-Out, SSD
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Webinar: Using the Cloud to Create a Truly All-Flash Data Center
For years vendors have been trying to drive down the cost of flash so that the all-flash data center can become reality. The problem is that even the rapidly declining price of flash storage can’t keep pace with the rapidly…
Bacula Enterprise is changing the definition of Open-source Backup Software
For many in IT, the term “open source software” conjures images of inexpensive but powerful programs that require a lot attention to keep running. They’re often a better fit for organizations with more time than money; unfortunately, most organizations don’t…
Tagged with: Bacula, CBT, Changed Block Tracking, Data Protection, Deduplication, Open Source, Protection, Snapshot, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Physical Servers Matter – Diskeeper keeps them running like new
While the move to a virtualized data center continues, physical servers still matter! Its true that many organizations are now approaching 60%+ virtualization, few have reached 100%. That means that most data centers are still 40% physical. Those remaining physical…
All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study
When it comes to business transformation, numbers matter. For CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments systems processing and data analytics, the integration of EMC XtremIO led to a transformation of their workloads, their infrastructure, and their…
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