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…
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How to safely use 8TB Drives in the Enterprise
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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Webinar: Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL? Server-side, hybrid or all-flash?
For many organizations MS-SQL is the backend to many of their mission critical applications. The environment provides a cost effective foundation for an organization to develop custom designed solutions that drive the business forward. As MS-SQL has risen in importance,…
Cost Justifying Flash For VDI Storage
Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) make a big promise to the data center manager; to substantially drive down the cost of supporting user desktops and laptops while increasing the security for them. But for a VDI project to be successful the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, ChalkTalk, Cloning, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, SSD, Tegile, Thin provisioning, VM
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How does Data Loss Happen and How can it be Stopped?
A recent blog by B&L Associates brought to light the problem of data loss. The entry cites surveys from Kroll Ontrack and EMC, which indicated that organizations see data loss as their single most significant risk and that the cost…
Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Data Loss, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Protection, Replication, Snapshots, TechTarget
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Briefing Note: Hedvig brings Software Defined Storage into focus
Software Defined Storage (SDS) may still be a fuzzy concept in the average data center but its promised deliverables are in clear focus. Data center managers are looking for ways to rapidly improve storage provisioning times while increasing overall flexibility.…
Tagged with: Cache, Flash, Infrastructure, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Sprawl, Unstructured data
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