Flash has been making its way into data centers primarily as an accelerant to existing workloads. Most of that adoption has been in the form of a hybrid use case, the combination of flash and hard disk drives. As we…
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Picking The Next Storage Networking Protocol
The data center is under immense pressure to scale the infrastructure to support more virtual machines, more users per database and to deal with the capacity growth caused by big data. As they refresh their storage systems to address these…
Tagged with: CISCO, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Infrastructure, Scale, Storage Networking Protocol
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The Virtualized Cloud Fabric
Many organizations are deploying multiple hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM in an effort to drive down costs. But this can cause infrastructure sprawl, hinder virtualized application mobility and impact the ability of an IT organization to meet SLAs. In…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Migration, Service Level, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Zerto
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Zetta No-Appliance Cloud Backup now supports Full Image Backup
Zetta has been offering a different kind of cloud-based backup since their inception five years ago. Their “direct-to-cloud” backup solution doesn’t use any hardware on-site, just their software which runs on application servers and file servers in the data center.…
VMworld After Hours: Tegile Party
Next up for Storage Switzerland was the Tegile “No Compromise” party. We grabbed Rob Commins, who was in studio earlier in the day, and David Bangs, Tegile’s new VP of Sales. More on Tegile Tegile takes a Reverse Hybrid Approach…
VMworld After Hours: SolidFire Party
After a busy day of shooting ChalkTalk videos Storage Switzerland took to the streets of San Francisco to see what was going on after hours. Our first stop of the night was an event at the Thirsty Bear, hosted by…
Hybrid Arrays in an All-Flash World
As the price of flash continues to come down, I am often asked by IT professionals what the role for hybrid arrays will be since all-flash arrays are beginning to reach price parity with high performance disk based systems. As…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Hybrid Storage, SSD, Tegile
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Performance Management is Broken
Performance management in today’s data center environment is broken. Between physical server silos, virtualized infrastructure, storage resources and networking devices, data center managers have to navigate through a plethora of management interfaces to diagnose application performance issues. The lack of…
Tagged with: performance, Software Defined, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Storage Q&A: How can the Enterprise embrace Web-scale?
Enterprise data centers are looking longingly at web-scale cloud providers. They envy the cloud providers’ ability to scale rapidly so they can meet performance and capacity demands. They also envy the cloud providers’ cost effectiveness of the designs. In this…
Tagged with: Architecture, Nutanix, performance, Scale, Software Defined, Web-scale
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Intel’s Greg Scott on the Storage Developer’s Conference – Podcast
SNIA will hold a Storage Developer’s Conference from September 15 through 18 in Santa Clara, California. It’a a great chance for software developers to fine-tune their craft. Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst George Crump joins me to talk to Greg Scott,…
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