Both VMware and Hyper-V have built-in migration tools to help you migrate from one data center to another, and from one converged platform to another. But each of these tools encounters limitations when used on a large scale. In this…
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StorageShort: NAS to Object Storage Requires Automation
Object Storage can make a perfect back end storage repository for NAS systems that are at capacity, and many object storage vendors provide some sort of gateway like functionality so that their object store looks like an NFS store. The…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Caringo, NAS, NetApp, Object Storage, Unstructured data, VMware
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MeetTheCEO: The CEO of Copy Data, Ash Ashutosh
Ash Ashutosh with Actifio is our guest on this LIVE MeetTheCEO with Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and Charlie Hodges. The team discusses Mr. Ashutosh’s background, introduces listeners to Copy Data Management as the next stage in data protection and what…
Flash Memory Summit Video – The Data Center is All Flash But One Flash Doesn’t Fit All
Thanks to decreasing costs and increasing reliability the all-flash data center is becoming a reality. But as IT professionals understand the benefits of moving more and more workloads to flash they are also realizing that different workloads need different types…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Desktop virtualization, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, IBM, performance
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Flash Memory Summit Video – What is NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics with Mangstor
The SATA and SAS protocols were designed in an era where hard disk drives were the dominate technology that data was stored on. Now we live in an era of flash storage and soon non-volatile RAM storage. We need a…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Understanding Your Workload Before Flash
While flash can solve a lot of performance problems, storage is not the only reason that applications fail to meet the expectations of their users. Throwing flash at the problem will almost always help to some extent, but there are…
Tagged with: Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Infrastructure, SolarWinds, Virtualization
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Flash Memory Summit Video – Which Flash is Right for Your Workload?
There are two key inflection points for the all-flash data center; when the all-flash array is purchased and during day-to-day operations. The first is before the flash array is purchased. There are a multitude of flash choices available to IT…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Overcoming Flash Confusion
At the Flash Memory Summit IT professionals have no shortage of options when it comes to implementing flash. There are all-flash arrays, hybrid arrays, server side flash, and memory. The challenge is understanding which type of flash should be used…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Mobility, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Migration, Primary Data
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Flash Memory Summit Video – Not All Flash Has To Be A Drive
When IT professionals think of flash storage they often think of something that looks like a hard drive but inside has flash modules instead of platters. The reality is flash can come in a variety of form factors and is…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Flash and the Cloud
Most major cloud providers now offer a flash storage option as part of their compute service. A high performance option enables in-cloud databases and applications the same benefits as if they were running flash in an on-premises data center. The…
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