For the past few years, a wide variety of vendors have come to market with file sync and share solutions that were designed to replace consumer solutions that had made their way into the enterprise. Most addressed key shortfalls by…
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Not your father’s Compression – Permabit delivers HIOPS Compression
Compression has been available in one form or another for decades, but most of the time compression is applied as data is moving off of primary storage. For example, most backup software or hardware compresses data as it moves into…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, HIOPS, Permabit, Replication, Thin provisioning
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Converged Architecture for the rest of us?
A converged architecture looks good on the whiteboard, with all your services (compute, network, storage) running on a single layer within the data center. But like many technologies, the transition from whiteboard to actual implementation and operation is much more…
Tagged with: Converged Architecture, Hypervisor, IOPS, NIMBOXX, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Is Atlantis USX the future of Software Defined Storage?
Software Defined Storage (SDS) has certainly caught the attention of IT planners looking to reduce the cost of storage by liberating them from traditional storage hardware lock-in. As SDS evolves the promise of lower storage CAPEX, increased deployment and architecture…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Atlantis, Data Protection, NAS, RAM, SAN, SDS, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Flash Arrays need high performance compression
Startups like Nimble, Pure Storage, SolidFire and Tegile are starting to take business away from the traditional tier 1 storage vendors. Their key differentiator, and often the winning point, has been their ability to efficiently use flash storage. Making flash…
Tagged with: Compression, Dedupe, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash Array, performance, Permabit
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Three keys to cost effective Hyper-V Storage
Microsoft Hyper-V is quickly becoming the preferred choice of small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) looking to tap into the power and flexibility of server virtualization. In addition, many enterprises are looking at Hyper-V as a parallel architecture to VMware.…
Tagged with: Hyper-V, ROBO, SMB, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtual machine, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Why is VM Density so low?
In our recent webinar “Max VM Density Requires Optimal Storage Networking & Operational Transparency” respondents to one of the polling questions indicated that over 40% of the time their servers were supporting less than a dozen virtual machines (VMs). This…
Tagged with: Archive, Brocade, Density, ROI, Storage Networking, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog
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Overcoming the Recovery-In-Place challenge
The advanced capabilities of virtualization-specific backup applications, such as Veeam, have brought new flexibility to the protection and recovery of virtual servers. In fact, these improvements, plus better availability, may be justification enough to virtualize a workload. Two of the…
Tagged with: CBT, Changed Block Recovery, Drobo, HDD, Hybrid Disk, Recovery in Place, SSD, Virtual machine, VM
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Kaminario Delivers Scale Right – All Flash Array
When a data center considers an all-flash array, it is generally in response to a storage performance demand for a specific application. In other words, it is a point solution to an immediate and pressing problem. For this particular situation,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Kaminario, performance, Scale Right
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
SlideShare – Three keys to choosing the right Server Flash
Flash Solid State Disks (SSD) installed inside a server have become the first stop for data center managers looking to solve various storage performance challenges. And their interest has not gone unnoticed. In fact, the response of the flash supplier…
