As we approach the last quarter of 2014, IT professionals are reaching out to me about what their flash strategy should be in 2015. Many are looking to move beyond the adoption phase that addresses point solutions and into a…
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All-Flash Arrays vs. Performance Management
Optimizing storage performance is almost an art. One of the earliest papers I wrote for Storage Switzerland was “Visualizing SSD Readiness“, which articulated how to determine if your application could benefit from implementing solid state disk (SSD). It also discussed…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, Server Side Flash, Software Defined, Solid State Disk, SQL, SSD, Virtualization
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VMworld 2014: Can Arcserve make a comeback?
This week in San Francisco, we spent a lot of time meeting with all the new and emerging companies in the storage market. We talked about hot topics like flash storage and server side storage. It came as a surprise…
Tagged with: Arcserve, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Replication, Service Level, Source Side Deduplication
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Webinar – The five ways your Backup Design can Impact Virtualized Data Protection
Virtualization specific backup applications, like Veeam, are the fastest growing segment of the data protection market, and for good reason. They promise to provide better, faster and more accurate data protection, while almost eliminating application recovery times. But the challenge…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block, Data Protection, ExaGrid, Recovery, Replication, Virtualization
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Enabling Service Level Data Protection – Dell’s Backup & Disaster Recovery Suite
The standardization of server and desktop virtualization, the uncontrollable growth of unstructured data and the increasing importance of databases are forcing IT planners to face reality and rethink their data protection strategies. While they still need to use enterprise backup…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Dell, Disaster, dr, Recovery, Service Level Objective, SLO, Virtualization
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Storage Performance, the VDI challenge
When IT planners are asked to list their top challenges with virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) they often come up with a variety of answers, like gaining user acceptance, delivering an experience similar to that of a stand-alone desktop or driving…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Atlantis, Data Protection, IBM, IOPS, performance, Software Defined Storage, VDI
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Enterprise All-Flash – HP StoreServ 7450 All-Flash Array
The all-flash market is full of startups that have captured the attention of IT planners in data centers of all sizes. Now HP is out to get that attention back with their 7450 All-Flash Array. Many of these startup companies…
Tagged with: 3PAR, All-Flash Array, Availability, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HP, Next Generation, Tiering, VDI
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StorageSwiss Take on the HDS Acquisition of Sepaton
Yesterday, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) announced they had acquired Massachusetts-based Sepaton, an established manufacturer of purpose built backup appliances (PBBAs) that use advanced de-duplication to shorten backup times and minimize backup appliance “sprawl”. The company will become a wholly-owned subsidiary…
Tagged with: Acquisition, Backup, Deduplication, disk backup, Disk Based, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, PBBA, Sepaton
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StrongBox brings integrated Data Archiving to NetApp, Windows & Linux Storage
Overwhelmed by unstructured data, like images, video and files not in a database, enterprises are struggling to keep up with storage capacity needs, especially since budgets are flat. As we discussed in a recent article, “The 3 Problems With Adding…
Tagged with: Archive, CIFS, Crossroads, Efficiency, LTFS, Metadata, NAS, NFS, Unstructured data
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Controlling Storage Network Link Speed
Data center initiatives, like server and desktop virtualization, as well as the introduction of flash enhanced storage, have motivated storage managers to upgrade their storage networks sooner than they might have planned. But those storage managers would be wise to…
Tagged with: Brocade, Fibre Channel, QOS, Quality of service, VDI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
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