Regarding backup and disaster recovery, the cloud is ideal for getting data off-site. It is also ideal for disaster recovery thanks to the many Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) offerings on the market. The cloud is appealing because for…
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Analyst Blog: The Flash Performance Euphoria is OVER
At Storage Switzerland we have written up more than a few case studies about all-flash arrays. As IT professionals have successfully moved from hard disk based arrays to all-flash arrays, the results are predictable; there is euphoria over the improvement in…
Is it Time to Kill the Solid-State Arrays Magic Quadrant
Gartner recently released its 2015 Magic Quadrants for General-Purpose Disk Arrays and another one for Solid-State Arrays. Over the next few weeks we will provide our analysis of these two charts, but first we need to discuss why there are…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Disk array, Flash, General-purpose, Hard disk, Hybrid array, Solid State, SSD
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Webinar: How NVMe Will Change Flash Storage
The bottleneck in flash storage is often the interface. SAS/SATA interfaces were designed specifically for hard disk drives not for flash media. For example, flash storage can support many more simultaneous I/O operations. The resolution to the problem is to…
Briefing Note: What to do if you can’t afford an All-Flash Array
The concept of an all-flash data center is very appealing, but for many data centers an upgrade to even a hybrid array is outside of their budget. Also, implementing a new all-flash array or even a hybrid array has more…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Cloud, Cloudistics, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid array, SSD, VM
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The Problems with Cloud DR
The Disaster Recovery (DR) stakes are higher than ever. No longer is being able to recover “eventually” an acceptable strategy. Users and application owners at organizations of all sizes are expecting to be back online within hours, no matter how…
Addressing the All-Flash Wall – Nexgen Announces All-Flash Array with Tiering and QoS
The first wave of all-flash arrays was typically purchased to address a specific performance problem like a poor performing database application or to allow a VDI project to live up to user expectations. Most all-flash arrays successfully addressed, and in…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, DRAM, Flash, NexGen, QOS, SSD
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Cloud in a Box – The On-site Cloud
While many companies are still developing their cloud strategy, others have jumped in with both feet and have moved most of their unstructured data to the cloud. These are organizations in the media and entertainment, online application provider, scientific processing…
Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, Crossroads, Fujifilm, Legacy, NFS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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The Storage Requirements for 100% Virtualization
After a rapid move from test to production, virtualization of existing servers in many companies seems to slow down. While it is true that most data centers have adopted a virtualize first philosophy, getting those older, mission critical workloads virtualized…
Tagged with: Bare Metal, Critical, QOS, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Future Proofing the Storage Reseller
Storage resellers are in a precarious situation. They have to differentiate not only themselves from other storage resellers theyat have to differentiate themselves from storage manufacturers that are often tempted to have a direct relationship with the reseller’s customers. On…
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