Up until the past year or two, High-Performance Compute (HPC) environments and the enterprise data center have been separate domains. But now the data intensive demands of analytics, migrations to cloud infrastructures and ever growing numbers of users looking to…
Backup, unless you are focused on it, is hard. Enterprises of all sizes are looking to outsource the problem child to someone that can babysit it. MSPs are in an excellent position to not only assist organizations but grow their…
Hyper-Converged Architectures (HCA) and Software Defined Storage (SDS) are two of the most talked about trends in the data center, and both are gaining traction. For IT planners sifting through the deluge of vendor claims about these two technologies to…
Container technologies are capturing the industry headlines right now, but they are seen mainly as a solution for Linux test-dev environments. In reality, container technology can pay big dividends for MS-SQL. Join Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and DH2i’s Carl Berglund…
Despite its name, high-value data is often mishandled in many organizations. Often the backup process is counted on to secure and retain this information, but while some of the software has basic archive functionality it was neither intended nor designed…
Flash Memory Summit Briefing: SavageIO’s Open Storage Platform Software Defined Storage (SDS) has a problem, it still requires hardware. This hardware requirement is a problem because most of the storage systems that a customer would purchase to go with their…
Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note: Radian Eliminates Flash Translation Layer for Improved Performance, Endurance, and Cost The first generation of flash storage devices addressed backward compatibility by treating the devices as if they were hard drives through the use of…
Briefing Note: Diablo Delivers Flash As Memory Since its introduction to the enterprise, flash has been viewed as an expensive but fast alternative to the hard disk drive, but not as inexpensive as RAM. Flash implementation options like PCIe SSDs…
Optimization, compliance, and security come together in a single stack Today’s data-intensive organizations are struggling to confront the rising costs and risks resulting from global growth in information assets, difficulty in complying with new regulations, and the increasing threat of…
Case Study – Major League Baseball’s 24/7 Cable TV Network Pushes IT to Extremes Major League Baseball (MLB) has been around since 1869. The first televised game was in 1939 and 70 years later, MLB Network was launched on January…
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