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Briefing Note: SIOS Provides High Availability for Azure based MS-SQL

Posted on April 6, 2015 by George Crump

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

Posted on April 2, 2015 by George Crump

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?

Posted on March 31, 2015 by George Crump

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,…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Hybrid, MS-SQL, Tegile
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Cost Justifying Flash For VDI Storage

Posted on March 30, 2015 by George Crump

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?

Posted on March 26, 2015 by George Crump

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

Posted on March 25, 2015 by George Crump

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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IT Can’t Ignore the Video Surveillance Data Explosion

Posted on March 24, 2015 by George Crump

IT professionals are simultaneously being pulled in multiple directions. For most, data center management is more like triage than a well-engineered series of processes. As a result, IT managers and CIOs are very careful about which projects they “own”, which…

Tagged with: Architecture, Capacity, Hard disk, Retention, SpectraLogic, Surveillance
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The Criticality of Cabling Infrastructure in High Performance Storage Networking

Posted on March 24, 2015 by George Crump

Pushed by initiatives like high density virtualization, online database applications and low latency flash storage, fibre channel (FC) storage networking is entering a new era sooner than expected. These initiatives are forcing the move to 16Gb FC networking at a…

Tagged with: Cabling, Data Center Systems, FC, Fibre Channel, LAN, performance, Virtualization
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SlideShare: How Snapshots CAN be Backups

Posted on March 23, 2015 by George Crump

Snapshots have been a key feature of primary storage infrastructures that IT professionals have relied on for years. In fact, many use snapshots as their first recovery option when their primary data copy is compromised. But storage systems have traditionally…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots
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StorageShort: All-Flash Arrays vs. cost per Desktop

Posted on March 20, 2015 by George Crump

One of the keys to success in VDI is all about getting user acceptance. A simple way to gain this acceptance is to implement an all-flash array. The problem is that the cost of an all-flash array can be at…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Hybrid, Hybrid array, performance, Tegile, VDI
Posted in StorageShort