Cloud computing and cloud storage certainly get a lot of headlines but how many IT departments are actually using the cloud in any serious, strategic manner. While most surveys of actual cloud usage are quite high per organization, these surveys…
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How Traditional Data Centers should use the Cloud
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Cloud computing, Cloud DR, Cloud Provider, Infrastructure
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Are you Virtualizing your Applications or your Data Center?
Many data centers are now more than 50% virtualized, but most of this virtualization has been application focused leading to silos of virtualization. As a result, each environment (MS-SQL, Exchange, VDI) gets its own storage, compute and network. This process…
Tagged with: Architecture, Backup, Compatibility, Disaster recovery, Nutanix, Web-scale
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ChalkTalk Video: Four Keys to All-Flash Performance from Hybrid Arrays
Watch this ChalkTalk Video with Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump to learn the four steps to getting all-flash performance from a hybrid array. Hybrid arrays have a clear price advantage over all-flash storage systems because they leverage hard disk…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Hybrid array, performance, Storage, Tegile
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Webinar – Top 10 Business Trends driving IT in 2015
New year “top business trends” analyses make for interesting reading, but they’re more than that. They often end up framing the objectives that IT strives to reach in the coming year, so understanding these trends and how IT should respond…
The ROI of an early Storage Refresh
When a storage system is purchased, the hope is that it will meet the storage performance and capacity demands of the data center for 3-5 years. Thanks to the changing compute environment and capabilities available from new storage systems, it…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Return On Investment, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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StorageShort: Primary Storage Hard Disk Arrays should be replaced now
We have advised IT professionals that all future primary storage purchases be either hybrid or all-flash arrays for several years now. The value derived from these solutions include increased virtual machine (desktop and server) density, applications that can support more…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Return On Investment, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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A Hybrid NAS for Unstructured Data
There is a small percentage of unstructured data that needs high performance, potentially even flash based storage but there is a much larger percentage that requires cost effective capacity. Premium NAS systems meet the performance demand of the first type, but there is room for improvement for the second type where cost efficient storage is so important. In this article George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst discusses the need for a new type of Hybrid NAS, one that integrates disk and tape, instead of disk and flash.
Tagged with: CIFS, Crossroads, Flash, Hard disk drive, Hybrid NAS, NAS, NFS, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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Should you be able to turn All-Flash Deduplication off?
Deduplication, along with compression, provides the ability to more efficiently use premium priced flash capacity. But capacity efficiency comes with at least some performance impact. This is especially true on all-flash arrays where data efficiency features can’t hide behind hard…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Kaminario, Latency, Permabit, Pure, SolidFire, Tegile, Texas Memory Systems, Violin Memory
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OpenStack as a Virtual Machine Storage Platform
Recently we sat down with Wim Provost, Product Manager for Open vStorage, for a podcast to discuss their new solutions that better enable OpenStack to run virtual machines. OpenStack is a set of open source software tools, typically used by…
Tagged with: Architecture, Cloud, Infrastructure, Object Storage, Open Storage, OpenStack, Virtual machine, VM, VM Migration
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Dell Customer Interview Maurizio Davini CTO University of Pisa
The IT Center at The University of Pisa in Italy is a research and development center devoted to supporting research for the various departments within the university. The of course creates a lot of storage challenges that Mauizio’s team has…
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