In a recent webinar, QLogic’s Steve Garceau accurately described the advantages of a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) strategy, as well as the challenges. While there is the potential for cost savings, the primary benefit that data centers will see when…
Register for the Live webinar event, “Avoid the Waste of a VDI-only Storage Solution” Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) places unique performance demands on storage. During the course of the day the I/O traffic changes from heavy read, to heavy write…
Hyper-V is emerging as an alternative to VMware in many environments, but those data centers choosing the Hyper-V path to virtualization nirvana must still deal with storage issues. As it does in VMware environments, Software Defined Storage holds great promise for Hyper-V administrators looking to lower storage costs while increasing storage performance. In this article George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, covers how software defined storage can be optimized for the Hyper-V environment to insure consistent application storage performance while maintaining Hyper-V’s cost advantage.
In a recent paper entitled “3 Storage Trends, 1 Crucial Question” by Phil Godwin, Vice President of Marketing at Clear Tech, the author describes three storage trends: Flash Storage, Tiered Storage and Cloud Storage. He goes on to point out…
Users see file sync and share solutions as a requirement to get their job done. They want their data available on any device at any time and in any place. It is the “any device” part of this requirement that…
Software Defined Storage is an emerging category of solutions that’s designed to decrease the cost of delivering performance and capacity. It does this by abstracting storage software services from the physical hardware. This allows a variety of storage hardware to be selected…
To get an advanced copy of our exclusive white paper “Are File Servers Holding Users Back?” watch the webinar “How To Increase User Productivity and Ensure Data Security” on demand and you can download the paper today. Is the File…
One of the most mundane home cleanup tasks is re-organizing the sock drawer. Data Management has been the IT equivalent for years. It is an event that often requires someone from outside of the data center to come in and…
Our top read article, by far, recently is “What is Data Profiling”. My colleagues Eric Slack and Colm Keegan also just hosted a well attended webinar, “How To Attain Sustainable Storage Savings“, now available on demand. At the core of…
Los Angeles – Storage Switzerland is at the Next Generation Storage Summit and today the focus is on solid state storage. The first part of the day was focused on the state of the storage industry, started by a presentation…
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