Briefing Note: Avere CloudFusion The cloud appeals to organizations of all sizes, but as they begin their migration they are faced with the challenge of trying to integrate into the cloud provider’s storage infrastructure. Amazon, for example, has Elastic Block…
Some vendors present Software Defined Storage (SDS) as a revolution in the storage infrastructure. Data Centers, especially those with an existing investment in storage systems, are looking for a more incremental journey that allows them to move to SDS, while…
As I mentioned in my previous blog about the IBM-Cleversafe deal, the goal of any technology buyout or merger is to make the combined entities more valuable than they were prior to the acquisition. At Storage Switzerland, we refer to…
George Crump, Joseph Ortiz and Charlie Hodges talk about the latest news out of the storage industry this week. We have some thoughts about Cleversafe’s acquisition by IBM and Pure Storage’s IPO. Show Notes Too much of a Good Thing?…
HP StoreVirtual Briefing Note HP’s journey to hyper-convergence started in Colorado when they purchased LeftHand Networks. The LeftHand Networks solution was one of the first software-based storage solutions and one of the first scale-out storage solutions. It also happened to…
Organizations are being inundated with data for a variety of use cases like storing old data or rich media, enabling file sharing and synchronization and forming a data lake for analytics projects. They need to store all this data, ideally…
Object storage is ideal for storing unstructured data. Understanding why it is so good at object storage is the challenge. In this ChalkTalk video George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Sanjay Patel, an Advisory Systems Engineer for EMC,…
The case for implementing an archive strategy is impressive, move the inactive 80% of data that hasn’t been accessed in the last year off of production storage to an archive store. An archive solution is less expensive, requires less power,…
The industry is mesmerized by all things flash and sometimes forgets that IT professionals have other challenges to face than just meeting the performance demands of the modern data center. One of those is dealing with unstructured data. Data centers…
In this week’s MeetTheCEO Qumulo‘s Peter Godman joins George Crump and Charlie Hodges to talk about his company’s product, Qumulo Core, the world’s first data-aware scale-out NAS. Qumulo Core is a software-only, flash-first hybrid design that is optimized for the…
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