As Disaster Recovery pressures mount businesses of all sizes are looking to the cloud to solve their recovery challenges, but can the cloud be counted on when the business needs it most? Listen to George Crump, Lead Analyst with Storage…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Hardware First – Designing All-Flash Arrays From a Hardware First Perspective
Data centers have to meet the increasing performance demands of scale out databases, big data analytics, and dense virtual environments. These data centers need to meet these demands without requiring more data center floor space or consuming more power. All-flash…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, Backup, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, SSD, Violin Memory
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Creating an Object Storage System that Bridges the gap to Tape
All data is not equal. It needs to be stored on different types of medium depending on the use case. Even within the archive dataset, all data is not created equal. Just like there are tiers of storage for primary…
Tagged with: Archive, Data Protection, Hard disk, NAS, Object Storage, SpectraLogic, Tape
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
MeetTheCEO: ioFABRIC’s Steven Lamb
ioFABRIC’s Steven Lamb is the CEO on our latest MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. Steve talks with us about how his software-defined storage (SDS) company got its name, what makes the product unique when compared…
What’s better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data?
The low upfront cost of cloud storage has great appeal. Almost any organization can purchase 100TB of storage instantly and only make the initial payment (month, quarter, and year). However, there is a problem with cloud storage that most cloud…
What is NVMe? And what does it mean for PCIe-SSD?
There are two constants in data center storage; the need for greater performance and the need for greater capacity. Flash based storage devices have become the go-to option to address the first challenge. But application owners and users quickly move…
The Next Generation File Server
For years, IT professionals have struggled with managing file data. This dataset has become increasingly problematic, often filling up file servers and breaking data protection processes. In recent years, organizations have asked for the distribution of file data to remote…
Tagged with: Cloud, File server, file sync and share, NAS, Nasuni, Next Generation
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
MeetTheCEO: Containerized CEO DH2i’s Don Boxley
DH2i’s Don Boxley joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges on this week’s MeetTheCEO. Boxley founded DH2i with OJ Ngo five years ago. The company is becoming a leader in the Windows Server Market and is now enabling Docker like container…
Using Open Data Management to enable IT Transformation
Enterprises are looking for a way out. Out of the trap of a data center made up of closed systems and into a data center that is open so that they can drive down costs and be more responsive to…
Briefing Note: Software can now Define the SSD
Briefing Note – OCZ Announces Host Managed SSDs Software Defined Storage (SDS) is becoming the prevailing way to deliver storage solutions. Whether it is customers trying to implement a software-only solution to manage disparate hardware or a storage system vendor…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Hyberconverged, Hybrid array, OCZ, performance, SDS, SSD
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
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