The fastest growing data set in just about every organization today, and typically the largest, is unstructured data. This is data that’s outside of a database; essentially file data, stored on file servers or Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. The…
Cloud Providers and enterprises must be able to guarantee performance to specific applications or groups of applications. They also need ways to distribute some of their storage management workload directly to the users or ‘interests’ they support. In the cloud…
Data Centers of all sizes are facing a data epidemic, especially State and Local Governments. In fact data growth in government is potentially greater than in the private sector. Not only is there more data, there are more data types and requirements for longer retention. In this article George Crump, Lead Analyst with Storage Switzerland discusses how combating the data epidemic requires new innovation from an old source – tape. Rather than competing against disk, tape, combined with the right solution, can compliment and extend the useful life of disk storage assets.
The I/O Blender has reached an almost legendary status in virtualization circles. It is a term for what happens to storage I/O when in a virtual infrastructure. The I/O Blender is created when potentially hundreds of virtual machines across dozens…
All-Flash Storage Systems promise denser virtual environments and faster database servers as well as real-time data delivery. But there are roadblocks to all flash storage that need to be overcome. In this webinar learn how to overcome the three key…
John Scaramuzzo, Senior VP and General Manager at SanDisk, had the second keynote at Storage Visions 2014 in which he put forth the notion that an All-Flash data center may happen sooner than we think. There is no doubt in…
Our first session note from Storage Visions 2014 comes from the session, “Please Don’t Go Away: Bringing Non-Volatile Memory to Tomorrow’s Storage Architectures”, sponsored by SNIA. As the title implies, the session discussed Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) and its potential impact…
Storage Switzerland is in Las Vegas this weekend for the 13th Anniversary of Storage Visions 2014. The two-day conference smartly positioned right before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Topics range from data protection and drive recovery to…
One of the top read articles on StorageSwiss is, “What is a Storage Controller?“. As we discussed in that article, a storage controller is the compute power in a storage system and is responsible for delivering basic functions like concatenating disks into volumes, RAID data protection…
In my last few columns, I have discussed the value of scale-out and scale-up storage systems. I’ve also discussed the potential for All-Flash systems to last twice as long as hard drive based systems. In those columns I’ve tried to…
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