Data is the new currency of business. To fully protect and exploit this data requires that it be copied to various backend processes like data protection, compliance and data analytics. The problem is that primary data is growing by 35…
Yearly Archives: 2015
SlideShare – Why 2015 is the Year of Copy Data – What are the requirements
Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability
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Posted in Slideshare
Briefing Note: StorTrends Delivers Feature Rich All-Flash with Intelligent DR
As data center storage becomes increasingly flash based, the big debate among storage vendors is whether storage should be all-flash or hybrid (a mixture of flash and hard disks). Depending on the workload there is a case to be made…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, Replication, RPO, Snapshot, SSD, StorTrends, Virtualization
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Posted in Briefing Note
Briefing Note: Drobo doubles down on SMB Data Centers
It’s been almost two years since Connected Data, the makers of the Transporter, acquired Drobo. In that time there has been some concern over the future of the Drobo product family. For the most part those concerns were ill founded.…
Tagged with: Drobo, HDD, Hybrid, mSATA, Reclamation, Shared, SSD, Thin provisioning, Veeam
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
VDI Implementations are judged by Peak Performance not Sustained – What are you designing for Sustained?
As we discussed in our recent webinar, “What Better for VDI, All-Flash or Hybrid?” user acceptance is critical to a successful project. One of the keys to that acceptance is making sure that users are given at least the performance…
Storage News and Insight for the week of March 14
Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump and I talk about the latest developments in the storage industry and then discuss about the risks of cloud storage. SHOW LINKS: Storage Swiss Briefing Notes StarTech’s 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 RAID Enclosure X-IO Enters March…
Tagged with: Cloud storage, Dell, Exablox, Software Defined Storage, Star-Tech, Storage Decisions 2015, Tech Target, Veeam, X-IO
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Posted in Podcast
Briefing Note: StarTech’s 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 RAID Enclosure
For the last 60 days, Storage Switzerland has been putting StarTech’s 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 hard drive enclosure through its paces. So far we have found that it provides rock solid storage performance and capacity for a variety of use cases.…
Briefing Note: X-IO Enters March like a Lion – No Lamb in sight
The storage market is as competitive as ever, so vendors need to keep delivering the features that data centers require to meet the ever-increasing demands for performance and capacity. But through the feature war, IT professionals would be wise to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Replication, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined, Thin provisioning, X-IO
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Backup is a Fractured Mess and DR is worse – Can the Cloud Save us?
Cloud backup solution provider Zetta.net recently surveyed over 400 IT professionals from a wide range of industries, asking questions like what types of backups were being done, what operating systems were being protected, how virtualized the environment was, and how…
ChalkTalk Video – Powering All-Flash with the Cloud
It has often been said that if you could afford an all-flash data center you would definitely want one. Going all-flash is not just attractive because of the gains in performance that applications will see but also because of how…
Making Cents of Flash for VDI
There is a tug of war that occurs when designing storage for a virtual desktop infrastructure. Flash solves a lot of problems and provides users with an excellent desktop experience, but it can also upset the delicate price per desktop…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, performance, Tegile, VDI
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