One of the toughest decisions IT professionals face when selecting a new storage system is deciding between an All-Flash Array and a Hybrid Array. Do you go with the predictable high performance of the all-flash architecture or the attractive price…
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Webinar: How to make a Hybrid Array perform like an All-Flash Array
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
Storage Short: The problem with Mutual Mystification and Backups
While many webinars focus on a specific technology, few focus on the process. If the data protection process is broken, a new backup or replication app will at best just be a band-aid that is destined to break the next…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLO, Synnex
Posted in StorageShort
Posted in StorageShort
Nakivo Delivers Recovery in Place
Backup solutions that focus on protecting the virtual environment are becoming increasingly popular. Companies participating in this market include Veeam and PHD Virtual (acquired by Unitrends). But there is another company that is sometimes left out of the conversation that…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, Deduplication, Nakivo, Recovery in Place, Recovery Time Objective, Replication, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
NetApp Flash Portfolio Analysis
Legacy storage vendors have faced a unique challenge as they tried to address the emerging flash opportunity. Unlike startups that could essentially start with a “blank sheet of paper”, these vendors had existing customers to care for. Their first mission…
Tagged with: Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid array, IOPS, NetApp, PCIe, Purpuse Built, Solid-state drive, SSD
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Non-disruptive Flash – How important is it?
Recently EMC announced that they were upgrading the storage software that drives their XtremIO to be able to compress and deduplicate data. This is an important addition, since not all data benefits from deduplication, databases being a good example. But…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Compression, Data compression, Deduplication, EMC, Flash, Scale-Out, XtremIO
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
SlideShare – Four Assumptions that are killing your Backup Storage
Backup systems are coming under fire. Data explosion is certainly part of the problem, but it’s more than just a capacity issue. Backup systems are being asked to do things they were never designed for, like storing largely unchanging data…
Do Hard Drives have a place in the All-Flash Data Center?
When a data center makes the jump to all-flash arrays the impact is dramatic. Applications respond quick and IT operations become simpler as administrators stop spending hours squeezing performance out of hard disk bound systems. This means it’s “game on”…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Clones, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Return On Investment, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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Posted in Blog
Software Defined Storage – Are we there yet?
Despite the hype and the promises, most data centers are still “hardware defined”. Are we getting closer to the software defined data center through the use of software defined storage technologies? Or is traditional shared storage that tightly integrates hardware…
Tagged with: Efficiency, Hardware Defined Storage, SDS, server-side storage, Shared Storage, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
The Enterprise needs Web-Scale Scalability
Data centers of all sizes are investigating Web-Scale architectures to see if they will meet their needs. In our recent webinar, “Web-scale vs. Enterprise IT“, we asked enterprise IT planners “What Appeals Most About a Web-Scale Architecture?”. The top vote…
Tagged with: Architecture, Backup, Compatibility, Disaster recovery, Nutanix, Web-scale
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
What do RTO/RPO have to do with your Virtualized Environment?
Maintaining the right level of uptime for newly virtualized critical applications is a key requirement for virtualization administrators. In this higher stakes, virtualized world time tested techniques like establishing recovery point and recovery time objectives are as critical as ever. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump helps you design a data protection strategy for VMs that are critical to the business.
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, RPO, RTO, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtualization
Posted in White Paper
Posted in White Paper
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