The most common question that we are asked by IT planners considering an all-flash array is “can the data center really become all-flash?”. The answer is yes but that requires that the all-flash array achieve data center scale. This means…
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EMC World 2015 – XtremIO Achieves Data Center Scale
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Briefing Note, Disaster recovery, EMC, EMCworld2015, Scale-Out, XtremIO
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EMC World 2015 – Simplifying HyperConvergence – VxRack
EMC was one of the first companies to roll out a converged infrastructure when they created VCE, a turnkey solution that combined VMware, CISCO server/networking technology and EMC storage called “vBlock”. VCE and others like it significantly reduced the time it took…
Tagged with: Briefing Note, Converged, EMC, EMCworld2015, Hyper-converged, VSPEX
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Conventional Storage QoS falls short on VMware and Virtualized Workloads
An increasing number of storage systems are coming to market with Quality of Service (QoS) functionality that allows an administrator to guarantee and in some cases, limit the amount of storage performance that a VMware or other virtualized workloads will…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, IOPS, LUN, performance, QOS, Shared Storage, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Previewing EMC World 2015
EMC World has evolved into one of the largest storage events in the industry, taking second place only to VMworld. While the event clearly has an EMC bend to it (it is after all EMC World) there are plenty of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, EMC, EMC World, ViPR, XtremIO
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What are VVols?
With vSphere 6, VMware is set to address one of the biggest storage management problems facing the virtualized environment, associating virtual machines (VMs) with the storage they are using. VVOLs provide that visibility and allow storage and server administration to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Availability, Data migration, Data Protection, FC, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, ISCSI, LUN, NAS, NexGen, performance, SSD, Virtual machine, VM, VVOL
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Software Defined Storage is more than Cost Reduction
Software Defined Storage (SDS) abstracts data services from the storage hardware, eliminating vendor lock in. With SDS a data center can be a mixture of different vendors’ storage solutions and the storage systems can be the best of breed for…
Tagged with: Cache, Clone, Clones, Replication, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning
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Three new considerations for Scale-Out and Scale-Up All-Flash Architectures
A couple of years ago Storage Switzerland wrote an article “Scale Out or Scale Up? – 6 Key Considerations for the Flash Array Buyer”. The points made in that article are still relevant, but vendors in both architecture camps have…
Hadoop and OpenStack for Enterprise Big Data – Moving from Erector Set to Ready To Go
Big Data Analytics is more than just an interesting IT initiative, these infrastructures are starting to re-shape how businesses develop new products, respond to customer needs and achieve new levels of efficiency. The problem is that most Hadoop environments, the…
Tagged with: Big data, Capacity, Data Protection, Hadoop, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, OpenStack, Reliability, Scale-Out
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Briefing Note: StorReduce – Driving Down the cost of Cloud Storage
Because of the capacity requirements associated with it, the cloud storage use case is the most difficult to justify for enterprises. Paying for petabytes of capacity on a recurring basis can get very expensive, especially for backup and archive data…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Clone, Cloud, Deduplication, Dev & Test, StorReduce, Virtual machine, VM
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The All-Flash Problem… Reality
The concept of an all-flash array once seemed impossibly expensive, but now almost a dozen companies ship a storage system that has no hard disk drives inside. The bigger question is if and when the entire data center can become…
