Getting data off-site, managing long term data retention, providing business continuity and backup verification have been some of the hardest problems for backup professionals to solve. The cloud provides some relief but it, by itself, is not enough. The right…
IT professionals attempt to solve server virtualization problems by implementing an all-flash array on the storage network or by leveraging flash in a hyperconverged architecture. In both cases storage performance and data durability are bound together. In this ChalkTalk Video…
The allure of the public cloud may be wearing off. The theoretical consistent cost of the cloud has proven to be false. CIOs constantly complain about the surprise bill from their cloud provider at the end of the quarter. The…
Exablox Briefing Note Despite the continual decline in the cost of flash, all-flash arrays remain out of reach for many medium sized data centers. They are left trying to band-aid performance problems with server side caching or hybrid arrays instead…
The cloud seems to be the ultimate destination for today’s data center. It can be used to support peaking workloads and for disaster recovery. The challenge is how to get data to the cloud so it can be leveraged for…
Pivot3 Briefing Note IT professionals have a lot of choices to make when they design their next generation infrastructure. They have to choose between a hyperconverged offering that consolidates compute, storage and networking into a single tier or a more…
The data center’s biggest challenge is not dealing with the capacity growth of the primary data set, it is dealing with the growth of the secondary data set. The secondary data set is copies of data it creates from primary…
Data Monetization is the art of extracting value from an organization’s existing data assets. For example, monetary value of data can come from creating a new video product from an old one, or can come from the analysis of years…
Flash-based storage systems continue to make inroads into the enterprise. Initially those inroads started as flash systems targeted at improving database response time. Then it spread to virtual workloads to alleviate the IO blender. Now, flash storage is on the…
Everspin Briefing Note The concept of persistent memory, also known as non-volatile DRAM, has been with us for a while. However, the idea of RAM that never loses data even during an unexpected power loss is IT nirvana. Today’s semiconductor…
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