General Motors and General Electric, both in business for over a century, now employ more IT professionals than most IT vendors. Both companies have described themselves as software firms. At the heart of any IT company is data and most…
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Portfolio Analysis: DDN Delivers a Powerful Portfolio for the Data Intensive Enterprise
Tagged with: All-Flash, DDN, Flash, Hard disk, HPC, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, NAS, Software Defined, SSD, WOS
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
ChalkTalk Video: Establishing Peace between DBAs and Storage Admins with Software Defined Storage
Storage Admins and Database Admins are often at odds with one another. DBAs want more performance, more availability and more capacity, often pushing the storage architecture to its limits. In this video, StorageSwiss and ioFABRIC depict the typical DBA /…
Tagged with: DBA, ioFABRIC, LUN, Next Generation Data Center, performance, QOS, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Vvols
Posted in Video
Posted in Video
Are you paying too much for DR Storage?
We are in the home stretch of the 2015 Backup 2.0 Technical Workshop, a comprehensive day of data protection education. At the workshop, we provide you with specific designs to meet demands for faster recovery and longer retention. Our sessions…
Unifying Cloud Management through vCenter
Briefing Note: HotLink Introduces Hybrid Cloud Management For the traditional data center, VMware remains the dominant virtualization platform but as enterprise roadmaps begin to map in the cloud they are struggling with how to manage the hybrid environments they are…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, DRaaS, HotLink, Hybrid, Shadow IT, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Is IP Storage DR leaving you Exposed?
As the world of applications explode, an increasing amount of critical business information is being passed between data center sites using IP storage. Most IP storage systems have excellent replication software built into them, but the infrastructure that IP storage…
Tagged with: Brocade, dr, Encryption, FC, Fibre Channel, IP Storage, QOS, Replication, SAN, WAN
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
The Problems with VVOLS
For simplicity, most storage administrators create a finite number of LUNs for their VMware Infrastructure and assign as many virtual machine (VM) datastores to each LUN as possible. Management is simplified thanks to a limited number of LUNs but it…
The Elephant in the Data Center
Briefing Note: Introducing infinite io There is little argument among IT professionals that at least 80% of data is never accessed again after creation. In fact, Storage Switzerland finds that three months after a one week creation-edit cycle as much…
Tagged with: CIFS, Cloud, HSM, ILM, infinite io, Migration, NAS, NFS, ROI, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Hyper-convergence, from Hype to Maturity
Hyper-converged architectures are solutions that leverage virtualization to support a software stack that aggregates storage and networking across compute nodes, converging these resources into a single stack. These solutions and their potential have been the focus of a lot of…
Tagged with: Architecture, Data Protection, Hyper-converged, Recovery, SimpliVity, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
What if Flash doesn’t fix your Storage Performance Problem?
Briefing Note: Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform Flash has solved a lot of the storage performance challenges that the modern data center has but it is not a cure-all. The problem is that most organizations are ill-equipped to resolve the issue…
Tagged with: Brocade, Flash, I/O, Infrastructure, Latency, performance, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
For MSPs Cloud Backup is all about Adding Value
For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and Value Added Resellers (VARs) offering data protection as a service is an alluring option. Most end-user organizations would love to get rid of the backup headache. Unless regularly monitored, data protection is prone to…
