When MS-SQL hits the performance wall, flash storage has become the “go to” problem solver. The high performance and low latency of the technology can eliminate many of the storage performance issues that a MS-SQL environment may face. But IT…
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Briefing Note: Promise Technology Vsky – Helping Enterprises Evolve from Terabytes to Petabytes
Enterprises are entering a territory that was exclusively the domain of cloud providers. Thanks to initiatives like the Internet of Things and Big Data and the general explosive growth of unstructured data, organizations have to evolve from managing terabytes of…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, NAS, Object Storage, Promise Technology, RAID, SAN, Unstructured data
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What’s your MS-SQL Flash Strategy?
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…
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…
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