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MeetTheCEO: Scality’s Jerome Lecat

Sometimes the best traveled roads take you around some curves. That’s the kind of road Jerome Lecat is traveling with his company Scality. In this episode on Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCEO, George Crump and Charlie Hodges talk to Lecat about his

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MeetTheCEO: Caringo’s Jonathan Ring

Caringo’s Jonathan Ring is the CEO on our latest MeetTheCEO podcast with Storage Swiss’ George Crump and Charlie Hodges. Jonathan discusses how Caringo’s software is the foundation for simple, bulletproof, limitless storage solutions. We also discuss the company’s goals and

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Podcast – EMC World – Day 1 Recap

No registration required – EMC World 2016 is under way and StorageSwiss is there. Join me as I sit down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. In this live podcast we will do more than just give you

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ChalkTalk Video: Software Defined Storage has to do More

The first phase of software defined storage (SDS) is bringing many benefits to the data center. Its abstraction of storage software from the storage hardware enables organizations to manage all their storage assets from a single view, along with a

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Is Unstructured Data Breaking your NAS?

Today’s issues with unstructured data is vastly different than the unstructured data problems of the past. While users still play a roll, machines like sensors, cameras and other servers are generating most of the unstructured data we have to deal

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Moving Beyond the Flash Storage Basics

Most vendors, when they talk to a IT professional about flash storage, still focus on two factors. First, it is fast and second, it is now affordable. Here is a heads up to flash to the vendor community…IT gets it.

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Overcoming the All-Flash Array Mentality to VDI

When it comes to Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) projects, all-flash arrays are quickly moving from a “nice to have” to a “need to have” component of the project. The all-flash required phenomenon is driven partly by users, but largely by

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ChalkTalk Video: Banning Excel Spreadsheet from Storage Management

Excel spreadsheets are the well-worn method IT administrators use to manage oversight of their storage systems. The spreadsheets track what servers serve to what LUN, how much capacity is available per LUN and how much capacity is available to assign.

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ChalkTalk Video: Do Hyperconverged Architectures really Converge Networking?

Hyperconverged architectures claim to collapse compute, storage and networking into the same physical hardware. They create a cluster out of physical servers and leverage hypervisor technology to allow the cluster to run virtual machines and storage services at the same

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