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Software Defined Storage Meets Software Defined Networking

Posted on October 21, 2013 by George Crump

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
Posted in Briefing Note

Is Software The Key To The Flash War?

Posted on October 16, 2013 by George Crump

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
Posted in Article

Driving Down The Cost of Forever – How To Keep Data For A Long Time

Posted on October 16, 2013 by George Crump

Retaining data is about more than compliance, now organizations want to keep data sets because they can leverage them to make better decisions or re-sell that data. In short there is money in the data; but you have to have…

Tagged with: Data Retention, SpectraLogic, Tape, Webinar
Posted in Webinar

Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash

Posted on October 14, 2013 by George Crump

One of the key discussion tracks at Powering The Cloud / SNW Europe is “Re-Thinking Your Data Center Architecture”. Storage is of course a part of the data center and its architecture also needs to be re-thought. There are two…

Tagged with: Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, PCI Express, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, VMware
Posted in Blog

Backing Up Distributed Data

Posted on October 14, 2013 by George Crump

The modern data center is no longer confined to four walls. Instead, data is highly distributed across remote branch offices, end-user laptops and even on devices like smartphones and tablets. The data protection process and the hardware and software that…

Tagged with: Backup, Data deduplication, Hardware, HP, Storage, WAN
Posted in Article

Akitio Neutrino Thunder Duo Test Drive

Posted on October 11, 2013 by George Crump

It seems like it took forever but thunderbolt enclosures are finally coming to market. One of the first ones we have had a chance to get our hands on is the Akitio Neutrino Thunder Duo. This dual drive unit allows…

Tagged with: Akitio, Drive bay, Hard disk drive, Neutrino, Samsung, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive, Test Drive, Thunderbolt
Posted in Lab Report

Developing a Service Oriented Approach to Data Protection

Posted on October 9, 2013 by George Crump

There is a never ending quest by IT professionals to standardize the data center on a single enterprise backup application. It’s time for companies to re-think that approach, by instead looking at providing backup for their services, instead of foisting…

Tagged with: Backup, Dell, High Availability, Incremental backup, Linux, Microsoft Windows, VMware, Windows
Posted in Article