When IT professionals need to boost performance, they turn to flash based storage solutions. This is especially true for MS-SQL environments where the payoff for flash use can be substantial in terms of performance gain. The high IOPS and low…
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What is Shadow IT? – and why you should care
“Shadow IT” is a name for the process that occurs when users self-select IT services, signing up for cloud-based services without the knowledge or approval of the IT organization. IT could take the attitude that Shadow IT is a good…
Test Drive: Can Businesses replace Dropbox with Connected Data’s Transporter?
Dropbox is the poster child for Shadow IT, and for good reason. The solution is easy to use and, because it operates transparently, it’s just another folder. But Dropbox was originally designed to be a consumer tool, not a business…
Tagged with: Cloud, Connected Data, File Sharing, file sync and share, FS&S, NAS, SMB, Transporter
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ChalkTalk Video: Can Windows hurt Flash Performance?
Today when an IT Pro faces a performance problem on a Windows-based server running applications like MS-SQL, Exchange and SharePoint, they often turn to a flash-based storage solution. Those IT professionals may be surprised to hear they should try something…
How to safely use 8TB Drives in the Enterprise
After a few year hiatus higher capacity hard drives are coming to market. We expect 8TB drives to be readily available before the end of the year with 10TB drives soon to follow. And at the rate that capacity demands…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data Protection, Drives, Flash, Hedvig, performance, Protection, RAID, Reliability, Replication, SSD
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Briefing Note: NIMBOXX delivers Hyper-converged for Medium Business
Hyper-converged architectures collapse compute, storage and networking into a single tier so that a few servers can run all of an organization’s applications while also supplying the supporting storage and network infrastructure. These designs seem ideal for the small to…
Tagged with: Data Protection, HA, HDD, Hyper-converged, NIMBOXX, Replication, SMB, SSD, VM
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Briefing Note: Adeptia Connects Businesses and Resolves Shadow IT
Businesses face a common challenge in how to securely and seamlessly exchange data with other organizations they work with. The secure IT solution is to set up an FTP connection, but this takes time and isn’t exactly integrated into the…
Tagged with: Adapter, Adeptia, Cloud, file sync and share, FS&S, FTP, Shadow IT
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SlideShare: What’s best for VDI Hybrid or All-Flash Storage
The top concern for IT planners looking to implement or expand the use of their VDI investment is storage performance. This is because every step that is taken to drive down cost per desktop, or improve the user experience, impacts…
Briefing Note: SIOS Provides High Availability for Azure based MS-SQL
Data centers of all sizes are looking to the cloud to perform computational workloads like databases and other applications. They are expecting a cloud provider to either run the entire workload in the cloud or make capacity available for bursting…
Tagged with: Azure, Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, Replication, SAN, SANLess, SIOS Technology
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It’s time to “VMware” Storage
Before hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM came to market, data centers had few options when it came to managing the growth of their server infrastructure. They could buy one big server that ran multiple applications, which, while it simplified…
Tagged with: Data Mobility, Hypervisors, Internet of Things, ioFABRIC, QOS, Quality of service, Unstructured data, VDI
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