Gartner recently released its view of the storage industry, ranking vendors on ability to execute and completeness of vision and displaying the results on a graph they call the Magic Quadrant. In my last column I described the components of…
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Analyst Opinion: Analyzing the Gartner’s Visionary Quadrant
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Compression, Coraid, Deduplication, Gartner, Hybrid Storage, Nimble Storage, Opinion, Scale-Out, Storage, Tegile, Tintri, X-IO, ZFS
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The Top 5 StorageSwiss Articles for 2014
This is it, the final entry of the year for Storage Switzerland and where we announce the top 5 articles for 2014. But before we do, we want to wish all our readers a safe New Year’s Eve and a…
Tagged with: Cache, Efficiency, Hyper-converged, Latency, server-side storage, Software Defined, Storage Controller, VSAN
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StorageSwiss Top Articles of 2014
2014 was a big year at StorageSwiss.com. Thanks to our readers we saw record traffic to the site. As we close out each year, it’s interesting to review the top-read articles. In 2014’s list you’ll see two common themes, flash…
Tagged with: Backup, Flash, Flash Array, Multi-Tenant, performance, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Kaminario Delivers Encryption, Poised for 2015 Growth
Kaminario K2 Flash Arrays have traditionally appealed to the high performance demands of the data center. Their systems, for example, seem to be consistently near the top of SPC1 and SPC2 benchmarks; and don’t forget that their first storage systems…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Encryption, Flash, Kaminario, NAND, performance, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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Is your Data Protection Strategy on solid ground?
The EMC Global Data Protection Index, a study of the state of IT’s ability to protect and recover data, was recently released. The global index shows that 87% of businesses are rated behind the curve when it comes to protecting…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery Objective, dr, EMC, Infrastructure, Protection, Recovery, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Retention Objective
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Webinar – Hyper-scale Nightmare -The Potential Consequences of using Consumer-grade Flash in the Data Center
Hyper-scale data centers (and many enterprises as well) face relentless pressure to contain costs. One way to lower those costs is to use consumer-grade solid-state drives in their scale-out server architectures, instead of the enterprise-class SSDs that are routinely used…
StorageShort: The Problems with using VMware for HA
IT planners sometimes consider implementing clustering within their virtual environment. Essentially where the nodes in the cluster are actually virtual machines within the VMware cluster. In this StorageShort, Tony Tomarchio, Director of Field Engineering for SIOS and I discuss this…
Analyst Opinion: Analyzing the Gartner Magic Quadrant
Gartner recently released its Magic Quadrant for storage. While I don’t always agree with their positioning, it is a reasoned analysis and I’m sure they can defend the various positioning of vendors they are tracking. It also gives other analyst…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Dell, EMC, Enterprise, Gartner, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, NetApp, Opinion, Storage
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StorageShort: Performance of a Cache Miss
One of the most common questions we get asked by customers considering a hybrid arrays is “What is my performance going to look like if there is a cache miss and data has to come from the hard drive tier”.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Pure Storage announces an All-Flash Converged Infrastructure
We covered Hardware Convergence in a recent column, “What are Converged Infrastructures?”. Hardware Converged Infrastructures (HCI) are architectures based on independent name brand components that are pre-integrated and optimized to work together. Pure Storage has just announced a new converged…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Density, Hardware Converged Infrastructure, HCI, performance, Pure, Virtual machine, VM
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