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…
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…
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…
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…
In a recent article our friends over at storagenewsletter.com asked an important question, “Is Cloud Storage Risky for Users?”. Our answer is that cloud storage is only as risky as you make it. In other words, an organization that’s planning…
In a recent blog Tom Cook, CEO of Permabit declared that all-flash array vendors, which count on deduplication as their key advantage, are going to disappoint their investors or shareholders. His confidence comes from the rapid adoption of Permabit’s deduplication…
For years vendors have been trying to drive down the cost of flash so that the all-flash data center can become reality. The problem is that even the rapidly declining price of flash storage can’t keep pace with the rapidly…
While the move to a virtualized data center continues, physical servers still matter! Its true that many organizations are now approaching 60%+ virtualization, few have reached 100%. That means that most data centers are still 40% physical. Those remaining physical…
When it comes to business transformation, numbers matter. For CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments systems processing and data analytics, the integration of EMC XtremIO led to a transformation of their workloads, their infrastructure, and their…
Data is the new currency of business. To fully protect and exploit this data requires that it be copied to various backend processes like data protection, compliance and data analytics. The problem is that primary data is growing by 35…
