Yearly Archives: 2016

Software Defined Data Center for Enterprises

Posted on August 2, 2016 by George Crump

HTBase Briefing Note The term Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) has been around for a few years now. But pinning down exactly what the term means can be a challenge as each vendor seems to have their own definition of…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, HTBase, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, QOS, SDDC, SDS, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note

Strategies for Managing the Performance Impacts of Data Efficiency in Hyperconverged Systems

Posted on August 2, 2016 by George Crump

The dramatic growth of data continues. To help solve the problems associated with that growth, vendors are coming up with new technologies that will not only maximize storage capacity but also improve performance. These techniques include thin provisioning, writeable snapshots…

Tagged with: Compression, CPU, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Metadata, SimpliVity, Thin provisioning, VM
Posted in Article

Aligning Data Demands to Storage Supply

Posted on August 1, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Today’s applications have varying storage needs, including performance, protection, and long term retention. In a perfect world, you would store data on the storage system that best meets each of these needs. But the real world delivers a lot of…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Latency, Primary Data, Replication, Snapshot, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog

Enterprise Container Storage

Posted on July 29, 2016 by George Crump

StorageOS Briefing Note Docker and container technology is experiencing rapid adoption by DevOps teams. But its move into the production data center is hindered by the lack of stateful, durable, highly available storage solutions. What are Containers? DevOps is an…

Tagged with: Cloud, Container, Deduplication, dev/ops, HA, Replication, Snapshot, StorageOS, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note

Remote IT is Moving to the Top of the IT Whiteboard

Posted on July 29, 2016 by George Crump

Riverbed Briefing Note Most of the focus in the enterprise is on the data center, but in reality most of the action is in the remote office/branch office (ROBO). ROBO is the new normal for most organizations. It allows them…

Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, Data Fragmentation, dr, Hyperconverged, Riverbed, ROBO, Virtualization, WAN
Posted in Briefing Note

Object Storage with High Performance and Security

Posted on July 28, 2016 by wcurtispreston

If object storage and the S3 API interests you, but you are holding back because of concerns about performance or security, Scality would like to introduce RING 6.0. Scality is advertising it as the first object storage system with enterprise…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scality, Security, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog

Storage Challenges can Dunk Splunk Projects

Posted on July 28, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Don’t get caught unaware of the storage challenges of your future Splunk project. If nothing else, at least be aware of the amount of storage that a Splunk project can generate and prepare yourself for the cost of acquiring and…

Tagged with: Bandwidth, ClearSky, Disaster recovery, Latency, Machine-generated, Splunk
Posted in Blog

MeetTheCEO: Spectra Logic’s CEO Nathan Thompson

Posted on July 27, 2016 by Charlie Hodges

Spectra Logic’s Nathan Thompson is our guest on this MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. The team discusses Nathan’s new book “Society’s Genome: Genetic Diversity’s Role in Digital Preservation” and how enterprises can overcome the challenge…

Tagged with: Archive, Data Protection, Disk, Hard disk, MeetTheCEO, NAS, Object Storage, SpectraLogic, Tape
Posted in Podcast

Flash Storage: Sometimes Performance Is Not Enough

Posted on July 27, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Did you ever hear the old adage that to a hammer everything looks like a nail? This is certainly true in the land of the all flash array. Such arrays are certainly the fastest storage array option available today, and…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, Flash, IBM, performance, VDI, Virtualization
Posted in Blog

Acronis Launches Three Cloud Services

Posted on July 26, 2016 by wcurtispreston

Acronis has come a long way since the initial introduction of its backup software many years ago. It now protects over 5 Exabyte of data for over 500,000 business customers and over 5 million consumer customers, 40 percent of whom…