Many organizations have adopted a virtualize-first policy, where all new applications brought online are considered for virtualized deployment prior to getting their own bare metal hardware. But there are typically a number of mission critical applications that are still not…
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How Are You Guaranteeing Virtualized Application Performance?
Tagged with: Gridstore, Hyper-V, LUN, Quality of service, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Can Snapshots Be Backups?
My colleague Eric Slack, recently wrote a column suggesting that how we protect data needs to change in order to meet the ever shrinking backup and recovery windows. That column has also generated quite a few comments objecting to his…
Tagged with: Backup, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Replication, Snapshot, Storage
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What is Latency? And How is it Different from IOPS?
The typical performance metrics used to categorize flash performance are throughput and IOPS. The most important metric may actually be latency. The elimination of latency has become a top concern for customers and flash vendors. That has led to solutions that…
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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