Backup, unless you are focused on it, is hard. Enterprises of all sizes are looking to outsource the problem child to someone that can babysit it. MSPs are in an excellent position to not only assist organizations but grow their…
Yearly Archives: 2015
The Dell/EMC Deal: News and notes for October 16
The Storage Podcast looks at the proposed buyout of EMC by Dell. George Crump, Joseph Ortiz and Charlie Hodges discuss the $67 billion deal and what it means to the storage business. Will it mean other companies in the storage…
What is Archive Anyway?
In his column, “What Killed Archive”, my colleague George Crump discussed the complexity of trying to identify inactive or cold data, and move it from the primary storage tier to a less expensive tier. Before we go there though, let…
Podcast: Bringing Docker-Like Technology to Windows with Container – How and Why
Docker brings efficiency to the Linux environment, allowing more applications to run on the same physical hardware via a container technology. Microsoft has committed to bringing similar technology to Windows in the future but what if you want to take…
The Anatomy of a Consolidated Storage System
It has long been a goal of IT professionals to consolidate the storage infrastructure to a single storage system that would meet both the performance and long-term capacity needs of the data center. This goal however has proven to be…
Tagged with: Cache, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, HDD, Infinidat, RAID, RAM
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
ChalkTalk Video: Overcoming Storage Infrastructure Challenges
The modern storage infrastructure presents IT professionals with a myriad of challenges. Three challenges however top the list: reducing costs, creating flexibility and delivering storage as a service (SaaS). Software solutions like EMC’s ViPR provide IT professionals with the ability…
Selecting the Right OpenStack Storage Module
OpenStack is a set of tools for building and managing computing platforms for cloud data centers. Public cloud providers have widely adopted OpenStack, and now the toolset is working its way into the enterprise in the form of private clouds.…
Tagged with: Backup, Block Based Storage, CIFS, Cloud, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Open Source, Scale-Out, SwiftStack, Unstructured data, Virtual machine
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Posted in Article
SlideShare: The Top 4 Requirements of a Docker Storage Architecture
Like virtualization before it, container technology will evolve from a DevOps initiative to an enterprise requirement. Docker is leading that evolution as it promises to bring greater efficiency to the data center than we ever thought possible with the virtual…
Tagged with: Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization
Posted in Slideshare
Posted in Slideshare
ChalkTalk Video: Infrastructure Agnostic Business Continuity
IT professionals are being flooded with infrastructure options to solve their business continuity challenges. Do they continue to leverage on-premises equipment and the organization’s own disaster recovery facilities, or should they leverage one of the cloud options? Join Storage Switzerland…
Meet The Software Defined CEO – PernixData’s Poojan Kumar on MeetTheCEO
Poojan Kumar, the CEO of PernixData, joins us in this week’s MeetTheCEO. PernixData optimizes storage for virtualized environments by decoupling strategic storage performance and management functions from the underlying storage hardware. Poojan talks to us about his company and how he…
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