Recently George Crump and I sat down with Jaspreet Singh CEO of Druva, a data protection software company that provides data center class availability and governance for both the mobile and distributed enterprise. We talk to Jaspreet about Druva’s converged…
Storage Admins and Database Admins are often at odds with one another. DBAs want more performance, more availability and more capacity, often pushing the storage architecture to its limits. In this video, StorageSwiss and ioFABRIC depict the typical DBA /…
We are in the home stretch of the 2015 Backup 2.0 Technical Workshop, a comprehensive day of data protection education. At the workshop, we provide you with specific designs to meet demands for faster recovery and longer retention. Our sessions…
Briefing Note: HotLink Introduces Hybrid Cloud Management For the traditional data center, VMware remains the dominant virtualization platform but as enterprise roadmaps begin to map in the cloud they are struggling with how to manage the hybrid environments they are…
As the world of applications explode, an increasing amount of critical business information is being passed between data center sites using IP storage. Most IP storage systems have excellent replication software built into them, but the infrastructure that IP storage…
For simplicity, most storage administrators create a finite number of LUNs for their VMware Infrastructure and assign as many virtual machine (VM) datastores to each LUN as possible. Management is simplified thanks to a limited number of LUNs but it…
Briefing Note: Introducing infinite io There is little argument among IT professionals that at least 80% of data is never accessed again after creation. In fact, Storage Switzerland finds that three months after a one week creation-edit cycle as much…
Hyper-converged architectures are solutions that leverage virtualization to support a software stack that aggregates storage and networking across compute nodes, converging these resources into a single stack. These solutions and their potential have been the focus of a lot of…
Briefing Note: Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform Flash has solved a lot of the storage performance challenges that the modern data center has but it is not a cure-all. The problem is that most organizations are ill-equipped to resolve the issue…
For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs) offering data protection as a service is an alluring option. Most end-user organizations would love to get rid of the backup headache. Unless regularly monitored, data protection is prone to…
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