Microsoft’s Hyper-V is an attractive alternative to VMware and other hypervisors but maintaining application performance is still a key concern when virtualizing. The bottleneck almost always comes down to storage. Making sure that each virtualized application receives the right mix…
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Scale Out or Scale Up? 6 Key Considerations for the Flash Array Buyer
In theory, scale up storage appeals because the data center can start small and add capacity and performance as needed. Do these theoretical advantages apply to the use cases in which All-Flash storage is most commonly deployed; databases and virtualization?…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Latency, Pure, Scalability, Solid-state drive
Posted in Article, Video
Posted in Article, Video
EMC Briefing Day – NetWorker 8
Over the past decade, EMC has made significant investments in the data protection space. Some examples include NetWorker, Avamar and Data Domain Purpose Built Backup Appliances. Each time one of these acquisitions were made, there were predictions about how the…
Tagged with: Backup, EMC, EMC Corporation, EMCbreifingDay, NetWorker, RecoverPoint, Virtual Tape Library, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
EMC ViPR Gets Defined
The next meeting at our EMC Briefing Day was with the Advanced Software Division. They are responsible for their software defined storage (SDS) solution – ViPR. We have written about ViPR extensively in the past but now that the product…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, EMC, EMC Isilon, EMCbreifingDay, ScaleIO, SDS, Software Defined Storage, ViPR
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
EMC’s VNX Swiss Army Knife Gets Sharper
Next up at Storage Switzerland’s EMC Briefing Day was the Midrange part of EMC’s Enterprise & Midrange Storage Division, also known as the VNX family; and of course we are going to talk about the VNX2. The EMC VNX2 is…
Tagged with: EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Flash, Hard disk drive, Hybrid array, PCI Express, Solid-state drive, VNX
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
EMC Briefing Day – EMC Converges The Infrastructure With ScaleIO
Yesterday, Storage Switzerland was at EMC for a day full of briefings from various groups within EMC. First up on the agenda within the Emerging Technology Division was ScaleIO, a company that EMC acquired earlier this year. ScaleIO allows EMC…
Tagged with: EMC, EMCbreifingDay, Hard disk drive, Hyper-V, PCI Express, ScaleIO, storage solution, VMware, XtremIO
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Do You Know The Truth About Your All-Flash Deduplication?
All-Flash Arrays are a performance sledgehammer, obliterating most performance problems and eliminating a great deal of storage management complexity. But, this sledgehammer is expensive and because of this All-Flash vendors are attempting to deliver a variety of solutions to drive…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Data compression, Data deduplication, Deduplication, Flash Array
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Webinar – Customer Use Cases: Accelerating Protection & Recovery of Business Critical Apps
In this Webinar Storage Switzerland speaks with two IT Managers to discuss the challenges they’re having around data protection and application availability. They tell us how they leveraged Nimble Storage Data Protection Solutions to resolve those challenges. Learn what they…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Customer relationship management, Data Protection, Nimble Storage, Oracle, SQL
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
CEO Interview – The Truth All-Flash Deduplication
Deduplication is the key to all flash adoption but as Storage Switzerland pointed out in its recent article “What to Look For in All-Flash Deduplication” each vendor’s implementation is different and IT Planners should not consider all deduplication to be…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data deduplication, Deduplication, IOPS, Permabit, Storage Switzerland
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
VMware Storage Problems Not Just Performance Related
A discussion about the storage infrastructure supporting virtual servers or virtual desktops almost always starts with a focus on performance. After all, solving the much talked about I/O Blender problem often takes center stage. But according to a poll conducted…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Information technology, Logical unit number, LUN, Tintri, Virtual machine, VMDK, VMware
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
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