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Are Disk Backup Appliances Ready For a Virtualized World?
Data protection in a virtualized world can be a daunting issue. Advanced backup capabilities like changed block tracking (CBT) and data in place recoveries from backup storage are creating new demands which are heavily taxing already overburdened backup appliances. Left…
Tagged with: Backup, ChalkTalk, disk backup, ExaGrid, Video, Virtualization, Virtualized Backup, Whiteboard
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IBM’s Storage Business Is Not Doomed
The news a couple of weeks ago that IBM had sold its server business to Lenovo set off a flurry of speculation about what IBM would do with the rest of its hardware offerings. While no one outside of IBM…
Tagged with: Commoditization, Flash, IBM, Memory, Non-volatile memory, Software Defined Storage
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Is 10GbE Fast Enough For Flash Storage?
In a recent Storage Switzerland report (commissioned by Brocade and now available for download), we point out that there is a gap between high performance compute and high performance storage — the storage network. Workloads like server and desktop virtualization,…
Tagged with: Brocade, FCoE, Fibre Channel, Flash, Gen 5, performance, Spanning Tree Protocol, Virtualization
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Storage Sprawl – How Flash Let Us Down
As we discussed in our last column “Why Is Storage Hardware Sprawl Worse Than Ever?”, toward the end of the last decade (2007-2010) the data center began to tap into the abundance of compute power available to it but providing…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Coho Data, Flash, Software Defined, Sprawl, SSD, Virtual
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Why Is Storage Hardware Sprawl Worse Than Ever?
Once thought eliminated through storage networking via storage consolidation, storage hardware sprawl is worse than ever. As we discussed in our webinar, “How To Stop Storage Hardware Sprawl“, there are several reasons for this. First, there are more workload types…
Tagged with: Coho Data, Flash, Hybrid, Sprawl, Storage Hardware, Virtualization, Webinar
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Proving That All PCIe SSDs Are Not Equal – The Huawei Tecal ES3000
PCIe based flash solutions remain a popular method for accelerating application performance. However, there’s a tendency to treat all these cards the same, which would be a mistake since there are vast differences between these offerings that can lead to…
Develop A Service Level Objective Driven Data Protection Strategy
Data protection needs to move beyond just merely backing up business data to redundant storage infrastructure. Instead, it needs
to align with the specific service level objectives (SLOs) of the business application owner. There are tools which can help ensure that SLOs are being adhered to, however, this process will become increasingly automated as primary storage and protection storage architectures converge.
Tagged with: Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, Protection, Provisioning, Reliability, RO, RPO, RTO, SLO
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Backup Basics: What do SLO, RPO, RTO, VRO and GRO Mean?
Being in charge of the data protection process is a thankless job. The process you create can run perfectly 99% of the time but everyone will remember the 1 time it fell short, and they will blame you. The task…
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