NAS systems have come a long way since SMB & NFS were invented in 1984, and the Dell Fluid File System is proof of that. If one hasn’t looked at a modern day NAS system, this would be a good…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Product Analysis: Scalable NAS for the real world: Redefining NAS Storage
Tagged with: Data Protection, Deduplication, Dell, NAS, Scale-Out, Thin provisioning
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Posted in Product Analysis
NAS vs. Object: Beating Bit Rot – Examining Data Durability
IT considers data durable if it survives anything that might happen to it because of how the user stores it. Typical data protection systems (e.g. backup, snapshots, replication) protect data from component, media, site, and human failure – or at…
Is VDI making you throw out your Storage?
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects bring many benefits to the data center. The operational gains alone justify VDI. The challenge is getting users to embrace it so that IT can experience those operational gains. User adoption often comes down to…
Product Analysis: Data Center Systems’ Structured Connectivity keeps the Agile Data Center Agile
Often overlooked, the cabling infrastructure is the circulatory system of the data center. An organization can invest in the most powerful servers, the fastest storage and the most advanced switches, but if data cannot flow smoothly between them these investments…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Cabling, Data Center Systems, HBA, Hybrid array, Infrastructure, LAN, SAN
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Recovering from a Hurricane
Disaster Recovery Plans (DRPs) should be relatively generic with a design that allows it to survive a data center outage of any type. But each type of disaster requires a unique response. At the Storage Decision’s “Modernizing Your Disaster Recovery…
Video: Cabling Infrastructure – Critical for High Performance Flash Storage
Improving storage performance and response time is a high priority for IT professionals. To achieve this goal they are deploying all-flash arrays and upgrading network bandwidth. But cabling infrastructure is a part of the process IT often overlooks. Improperly designing…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Bandwidth, Cabling, Data Center Systems, Flash, Infrastructure, performance
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Addressing Modern Recovery Requirements
A Product Analysis of Dell Rapid Recovery It’s time for a new type of backup and recovery because the old ways of backup simply do not meet the current needs of many businesses. It starts with the inefficiencies of how…
NAS vs. Object: Data Archive – Long Term Data Efficiency
Most of the time when unstructured data is created there is never a need to access it again. But it is still necessary to store it just in case you need it. When the “just in case” scenario occurs, you…
Avere FXT 5000 Series Edge Filer Product Analysis
For quite some time now, organizations have been struggling with increasingly expensive and complex infrastructures as they fight to control and protect the ever-increasing avalanche of unstructured data. At the same time, they need to meet the demands from users…
Tagged with: application performance, Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Hybrid, NAS, Object Storage, SSD, Unstructured data
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Flash Strategy 2.0: Optimizing NetApp with Flash and Cloud
For most organizations, databases are the heart of the data center. Not surprisingly, its IT infrastructure revolves around those databases. But there are market segments like Media and Entertainment, Life Sciences, Financial Services and Technology where unstructured data is at…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Cold Data, Flash, Latency, NAS, performance, Replication, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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