Storage, the Bump in the 16Gb Road 16 Gbps (Gen 5) Fibre Channel (FC) has been available for several years and it is an ideal network choice for storage systems that count on flash to meet the performance demands of…
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Briefing Note: QLogic Powering End to End 16Gb FC
Tagged with: 16Gb FC, Briefing Note, Fibre Channel, Gen 5, QLogic, Storage Network
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Recovering from a Storage System Failure
The Bad Day Begins A message arrives on your smart phone indicating that the organization’s primary storage system is offline. All the applications that you were counting on it are down, and users can’t get their work done. Further investigation determines that this…
Tagged with: Accelerite, Cloud, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, Veeam
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Briefing Note: Stopping Virtualization’s Double Tax
Virtualized Windows applications suffer from two I/O taxes. First, there is the tax of the I/O blender caused by mixing dozens of VMs on a single server, and then connecting multiple servers to a shared storage array that creates a…
Tagged with: Condusiv, DRAM, Flash, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, SAN, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: Making the Always-On Data Center a Reality
Even though users and application owners are demanding it, the Always-On Data Center seems unrealistic to most IT professionals. Overcoming the cost and complexity of an Always-On environment while delivering consistent results is almost too much to ask. But the…
StorageShort: Fast Recovery Point Objectives with Change Block Backup and In-place Recovery
Meeting a strict recovery point and recovery time objective requires more frequent backups and the ability to recover without transferring data. In this 74 second video we tell you how to meet strict RPO/RTOs. For more details watch our on-demand…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, ExaGrid, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Panzura SkyBridge solves VDI Storage Challenge
In a recent article, Storage Switzerland discussed the storage challenges associated with Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). But instead of focusing on the typical performance challenges associated with VDI, like boot storms and data efficiency,…
Tagged with: Cloud, DaaS, GFS, Global File System, Latency, Panzura, Replication, VDI
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Briefing Note: Idealstor Enables the Hyper-Converged SMB
Small to medium sized business (SMB) are a great target for hyper-converged architectures because SMBs don’t typically have the application requirements that would justify dedicated compute and storage hardware. The problem is that many hyper-converged architectures (HCAs) are too expensive…
Tagged with: Flash, HCA, Hyper-converged, Idealstor, NAS, SAN, SMB, SSD, Virtualization
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The Storage Challenges of Desktop as a Service
Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and has the potential to reduce the upfront costs and scaling issues associated with deploying virtual desktops. But these cloud hosted users still need to be able…
Why is Virtualization creating Storage Sprawl?
Desktop and server virtualization have brought many benefits to the data center. These two initiatives have allowed IT to respond quickly to the needs of the organization while driving down IT costs, physical footprint requirements and energy demands. But there…
Tagged with: DRAM, Flash, HDD, Hypervisor, Infinidat, NAS, ROI, Storage Sprawl, VDI, Virtualization, VM
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The easy button for OpenStack Swift gets better
Early this year we compared the work involved in building a storage infrastructure around OpenStack Swift versus using SwiftStack. While the names OpenStack Swift and SwiftStack are similar, the process of getting to the point where you can write data…
Tagged with: Architecture, Archiving, Capacity, Cloud, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, SwiftStac
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