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EMCworld: Integrating old and new technologies – Podcast

Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and I talk about all of the one-on-one meetings George had with EMC officials at EMCworld 2014 in Las Vegas. And one of the things we talked about is EMC’s ability combine technologies seamlessly.

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EMCworld: An update on Viper – Podcast

Storage Switzerland’s George Crump is attending EMCworld in Las Vegas. This afternoon he is giving us a full update on Viper.   We will provide a final update on EMCworld that will be available Thursday morning, May 8.

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What to look for in flash accelerated software – Podcast

Are solutions that cluster server-side Flash and RAM a good thing for businesses that want to accelerate all storage IO workloads (read & write) while improving performance reliability? We’ll talk about that with Pernix Data. Read Colm’s Article, Choosing the Right Flash

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EMCworld: Elastic Cloud Storage – Podcast

Storage Switzerland is at EMCworld in Las Vegas. George Crump and I talk about EMC’s announcement of Elastic Cloud Storage.   Comeback for an afternoon update at 2 p.m. Central/Noon Paciific (For Wednesday, May 7.)

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How To Improve Bare Metal Server Performance – Podcast

Think Flash can help improve performance in the Data Center? Think it will only work in a Flash-based server? Think again. To talk about how Flash can help your overall performance, I sat down with Rich Petersen from SanDisk and Eric

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ChalkTalk Video – The Hype Around Converged Storage

The hottest trend in storage now is converged storage. In this architecture the physical servers that host virtual machines also provide a shared storage resource by abstracting and aggregating their own internal storage. Like any storage architecture this approach has

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The Next Generation Data Center – Podcast

Changes are coming to the Data Center. It will be highly virtualized with extremely high virtual machine densities. It will thrive on flexibility, cost and efficiency. To talk about The Next Generation Data Center is Jay Prassl from SolidFire and Storage Switzerland

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Fibre Channel vs. Ethernet – Should You Switch?

Depending on which study you read, fibre channel based storage area networks are the topology of choice for somewhere between 40% to 60% of the storage networks in production. The IT professionals that run these networks are besieged with marketing

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Security for File Sync and Share – Podcast

One of the results of a poll on a recent webinar is that many users are concerned about security with file sync and share platforms. To discuss this in today’s podcast are Artie Chang from Panterra and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan.

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How to Properly Deploy Flash: Webinar Preview – Podcast

Flash is more than just fast storage. Intel’s Andrew Flint and Storage Switzerland Senior Analyst Colm Keegan join us on The Storage Podcast to talk about how flash can fit into the data center if used correctly in the right

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