In a recent entry, “What Killed Archive?“, I discussed why most data centers don’t move inactive data from expensive storage to less expensive storage, despite a very compelling return on investment (ROI). The number one killer of the archive process…
The goal of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) is to lower the operational costs of supporting an organization’s desktops and laptops. A VDI project should make it easier for IT to support users, keep the organization safe from viruses and better…
Briefing Note: Zadara Storage Corporate IT is transitioning to an “As a Service” model. That is because the as a service model is not just isolated to the cloud – there are plenty of on-premises service use cases as well.…
Join us for our latest SwissCast on demand. This is our 2015 wrap-up and 2016 predictions show. In this special episode we wrap up the briefings from 2015 that we didn’t get a chance to discuss and make some predictions…
Users and application owners expect that the systems they use will never go down, and if they do they will be returned to operation quickly with little data loss. In our article “Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden”…
InterModal Data Briefing Note Unstructured data continues its endless growth. Much of this data is never accessed again after its creation, but there is a portion of it that is frequently accessed and needs to respond to those requests. The…
From the moment that VMware started to move into production, it has strained the storage infrastructure. The impact of running multiple virtual machines (VMs) on the same server at the same time pushed traditional disk-based storage systems to their breaking…
In our last entry we published our top 25 most read articles of 2015. Analysis of that list shows five key trends that IT professionals are trying to wrap their heads around as we enter 2016, but these trends can…
In terms of visitors, 2015 was a record year for StorageSwiss.com, and at the end of each year we take a look at the top 25 read articles as indicated by our analytics. Our top 25 list is taken from…
Last week, ahead of the acquisition, we gave suggestions to NetApp on what it should do if it acquires SolidFire. This week NetApp moved forward with the purchase, and now $870 million later owns one of the better all-flash array…
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