Tape as a storage medium has fought off all attacks from disk-based backup and archive vendors and is enjoying a resurgence in the data center. In fact, Storage Switzerland recently polled about 70 large enterprise IT professionals and not one…
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Is It Time To Bring Tape Into Production?
Tagged with: CrossRoads Systems, Hard disk drive, IBM, Linear Tape File System, SpectraLogic
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Flash Aware Fibre Channel
The key objective for organizations investing in flash is to make sure that they are getting the maximum performance out of their premium investment. This means making sure that the application and storage infrastructures are optimized for the near zero…
Tagged with: CrossLink, Data center, Emulex, Fibre Channel, Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, LUN, Storage area network
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Deciding On The Right Flash Storage For High Density Virtual Infrastructures
Dramatic increases in the number of VMs per host allows for greater ROI and TCO but creates a storage I/O nightmare. Vendors have embraced flash as the answer and have almost overwhelmed IT Planners with options. In this indepth report Storage Switzerland’s Founder and Lead Analyst, George Crump, looks at the various flash options and helps you determine the best path for your data center.
The Fibre Channel Freight Train Keeps Rolling
Emulex Survey Shows Rapid Gen 5 Adoption When it comes to storage networking, iSCSI, NAS and even InfiniBand have all raised their hands as potential challengers to Fibre Channel (FC). It would seem, however, that the veteran of storage protocols…
All-Flash Storage Efficiency Is About More Than Deduplication
George Crump, Lead Analyst – Storage Switzerland All-Flash Storage Arrays have quickly become the go to option to solve storage performance challenges. Thanks to data efficiency technologies that reduce the effective cost per gigabyte (GB), the appeal of All-Flash Arrays…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data deduplication, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Permabit
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Stopping Storage System Sprawl
Unstructured data can come from a variety of sources including traditional office productivity files, rich media or data generated by sensors and cameras. It can also come from semi-structured environments like Exchange and SharePoint. Even though each of these examples…
Tagged with: Data Defined Storage, Data management, Microsoft SharePoint, Network-attached storage, SharePoint, SNW Europe, Tarmin, Unstructured data
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Dot Hill Delivers Storage for the Real World Data Center
From high density virtualization to software-defined infrastructures, changes in technology are coming fast. And keeping up with these changes is pushing IT staffs in the real world data center to the breaking point. This means detailed storage design and planning…
Tagged with: Dot Hill, Fibre Channel, Hardware, ISCSI, SNW Europe, Storage, Virtualization
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Software Defined Storage Meets Software Defined Networking
Coho Data Delivers Scalable Multi-Purpose Storage Platform One of the challenges facing data centers today is the diversity of the applications they have to support. They range from the virtualized infrastructure, with its highly random I/O pattern, to the transactional…
Tagged with: Coho Data, MicroArray, OpenFlow, PCI Express, SDN, Software Defined, Software Defined Storage
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Nirvanix Shutdown, Good News For Cloud Storage
October 2013 will be remembered for the abrupt shutdown of the Nirvanix Cloud. While this may seem like bad news for the cloud market, it actually may be one of the best things to happen to cloud storage. Cloud storage…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, Data set, Disaster recovery, Hybrid Cloud Storage, Nirvanix, Remote backup service
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Is Software The Key To The Flash War?
Interest in All-Flash storage systems is on the rise from the investment community and it is certainly attracting the interest of IT planners looking to create more scalable database environments and more densely populated virtual infrastructures. All-Flash systems enable scale,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Flash, Flash memory, IOPS, Permabit, Skyera
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