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EMC’s VNX Swiss Army Knife Gets Sharper

Posted on December 5, 2013 by George Crump

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

EMC Briefing Day – EMC Converges The Infrastructure With ScaleIO

Posted on December 5, 2013 by George Crump

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

Do You Know The Truth About Your All-Flash Deduplication?

Posted on December 3, 2013 by George Crump

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

Webinar – Customer Use Cases: Accelerating Protection & Recovery of Business Critical Apps

Posted on December 2, 2013 by George Crump

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

CEO Interview – The Truth All-Flash Deduplication

Posted on November 30, 2013 by George Crump

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

VMware Storage Problems Not Just Performance Related

Posted on November 25, 2013 by George Crump

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

The Modern HPC Storage Architecture

Posted on November 25, 2013 by George Crump

High Performance Computing (HPC) is a unique environment that places special demands on the storage infrastructure. These environments typically have dozens, if not hundreds, of compute nodes, each generating a unique sequential workflow that randomizes when it hits the shared…

Tagged with: Dot Hill, Flash memory, HPC, IOPS, Serial attached SCSI, Servers, Storage area network, Supercomputer
Posted in Article

Hyper-V White Paper “Software-Defined Storage Optimized for Hyper-V”

Posted on November 25, 2013 by George Crump

An application owners’ primary concern is the performance of their application. While cost efficiencies and increased availability of virtualization intrigues them, they will not sacrifice a consistent application experience for their users. The key for Hyper-V and storage administrators is…

Tagged with: Hyper-V, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Switzerland
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Can The Enterprise Count on The Cloud For Data Protection?

Posted on November 22, 2013 by George Crump

Cloud storage has come under increased scrutiny as of late, thanks to several well publicized outages as well as an outright shutdown of one provider. Enterprises are starting to re-think their cloud strategy, even when it comes to data protection. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst examines the state of cloud backup to determine if it is ready to deliver enterprise class protection.

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Cloud Backup, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data Protection, Data security, Encryption, HP, Protection
Posted in Article

A Tiered Approach To Data Protection

Posted on November 22, 2013 by George Crump

Think your data is protected? Think again. True data protection is more than just enterprise backup, snapshots and replication; it’s a combination of all of these technologies. Understanding how to leverage each type of data protection is key towards enabling the rapid recovery of mission critical business information while not overspending on data protection insurance. In this article, lead analyst George Crump, outlines the specific role each type of data protection technology serves in the data center and how organizations can tier their data protection strategy for the maximum cost/benefit.