As data center storage becomes increasingly flash based, the big debate among storage vendors is whether storage should be all-flash or hybrid (a mixture of flash and hard disks). Depending on the workload there is a case to be made…
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Briefing Note: StorTrends Delivers Feature Rich All-Flash with Intelligent DR
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hard disk, Hybrid, Replication, RPO, Snapshot, SSD, StorTrends, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Drobo doubles down on SMB Data Centers
It’s been almost two years since Connected Data, the makers of the Transporter, acquired Drobo. In that time there has been some concern over the future of the Drobo product family. For the most part those concerns were ill founded.…
Tagged with: Drobo, HDD, Hybrid, mSATA, Reclamation, Shared, SSD, Thin provisioning, Veeam
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VDI Implementations are judged by Peak Performance not Sustained – What are you designing for Sustained?
As we discussed in our recent webinar, “What Better for VDI, All-Flash or Hybrid?” user acceptance is critical to a successful project. One of the keys to that acceptance is making sure that users are given at least the performance…
Briefing Note: StarTech’s 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 RAID Enclosure
For the last 60 days, Storage Switzerland has been putting StarTech’s 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 hard drive enclosure through its paces. So far we have found that it provides rock solid storage performance and capacity for a variety of use cases.…
Briefing Note: X-IO Enters March like a Lion – No Lamb in sight
The storage market is as competitive as ever, so vendors need to keep delivering the features that data centers require to meet the ever-increasing demands for performance and capacity. But through the feature war, IT professionals would be wise to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Replication, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined, Thin provisioning, X-IO
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Backup is a Fractured Mess and DR is worse – Can the Cloud Save us?
Cloud backup solution provider Zetta.net recently surveyed over 400 IT professionals from a wide range of industries, asking questions like what types of backups were being done, what operating systems were being protected, how virtualized the environment was, and how…
ChalkTalk Video – Powering All-Flash with the Cloud
It has often been said that if you could afford an all-flash data center you would definitely want one. Going all-flash is not just attractive because of the gains in performance that applications will see but also because of how…
Making Cents of Flash for VDI
There is a tug of war that occurs when designing storage for a virtual desktop infrastructure. Flash solves a lot of problems and provides users with an excellent desktop experience, but it can also upset the delicate price per desktop…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, performance, Tegile, VDI
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Briefing Note: For Veeam it’s about more than Backup, it’s about Availability
Data protection is about much more than the successful completion of backup jobs. While the backup part of the process has value, its role has shifted to providing point-in-time versions of data instead of being the primary point of recovery.…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Protection, Recovery, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Veeam
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The value of Global Primary Storage Deduplication
Standard deduplication is the elimination of redundant data on a single storage system. Whether that system is used for backup or primary data, the goal is to put as much data as possible on a single storage system so that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Global Deduplication, Permabit, Redundancy, Test/Dev, Thin provisioning, WAN
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