Pure Storage Announces M Series One of the questions facing all-flash array vendors as they come to market is do they take a software first or hardware first strategy when it comes to system development? The advantage of the software…
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Overcoming the Biggest Roadblock to the Always-On Data Center
Believing in the Always-On Data Center One of the topics in our on demand webinar, “Making The Always-On Data Center A Reality”, is overcoming the roadblocks to the Always-On Data Center. In this webinar experts from Storage Switzerland, Veeam and…
Tagged with: Backup, CBT, ExaGrid, QOS, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Software Defined Deduplication for the Cloud
Unlike cloud compute which can scale up and down on the fly, cloud storage is more permanent. While organizations that use cloud storage only pay for the exact storage they are consuming, they do also pay for that storage month…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, Cloud, Efficiency, Permabit, Scale, Software Defined
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All-Flash Case Study: The Clutch Group – 85% Faster Apps
Which came first, the Success or the Flash? It is said that success breeds success, but sometimes success breeds flash which then breeds more success. This was the case for Litigation Consulting and Compliance firm, The Clutch Group. After landing…
Briefing Note: Is it time to Hyper-converge Backups?
Convergence and hyper-convergence are two concepts that have proven to be very popular with data centers, allowing them to shorten implementation times and in some cases condense the IT stack to simplify operations and support. But these concepts have mostly…
Tagged with: Compression, Convergence, Data Protection, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Hyper-convergence, Replication, Rubrik
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Flash Showdown – Which Flash is best for MS-SQL, Server or Shared?
In our on-demand webinar “Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL?” one of the polling questions delivered a surprising result; 67% of respondents that were using flash to accelerate MS-SQL, were using flash inside of the server, instead of shared flash on the…
Virtualization is Critical to the Always-On Data Center
The concept of an always-on application has been a reality for years thanks to clustered applications and add-on High Availability (HA) software, but meeting this expectation can be expensive and complicated. Expand the scope beyond a single application, to an entire…
Tagged with: Backup, ExaGrid, QOS, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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StorageShort: The Strength of Disk vs. Flash
It seems that some all-flash vendors are quick to write off hard disk drives (HDD) with some even pronouncing HDDs dead. But disks have a role to play in the data center and even for primary storage. HDDs still have…
Briefing Note: Performance Testing gets closer to the Real World
When IT professionals look to solve a storage performance or capacity problem the number of options available to them can almost be overwhelming. Trying to select the right solution to their particular problem seems almost impossible. They simply don’t have…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, I/O, I/O Blender, Load DynamiX, NFS, VDI, Virtual machine, VM
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Webinar: Preparing for Disasters that will Actually Happen
For most IT Professionals the term “disaster” evokes images of a data center being burned to the ground or going underwater, a situation they have spent a lot of years and dollars preparing for. But there are other types of…
