Dramatic changes are underway in the storage infrastructure. Extreme data growth, for business intelligence and unstructured data, has led many organizations to consider object storage as a scalable solution to the problem that this growth has caused. Additionally, many companies…
Being a Managed Service Provider (MSP) is a tough business and so is being an IT professional. Off-loading the backup architecture responsibility to a provider makes a lot of sense. Using the solution for more than just disaster recovery makes even more sense. In this article Storage Switzerland discusses how cloud backup can be used for far more than disaster recovery and how both MSPs and IT pros can take advantage of that.
Hyper-converged Storage may be the purest form of the software defined storage (SDS) concept, as it runs storage services as a virtual machine within the customer infrastructure. This new take on storage architectures collapses the traditional compute, storage and networking…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
