Storage Switzerland recently completed a lab audit of a test performed by Brocade, Emulex and Violin Memory that achieved over two million IOPS. The report is available now and you can get a copy of it by attending our webinar,…
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Webinar – 5 Reasons Object Storage Can Solve Unstructured Data Problems
Are you drowning in unstructured data? Can a private cloud, object based storage system be the solution? Watch our on demand webinar “5 Reasons Object Storage Can Solve Unstructured Data Problems” and get your head above water! According to industry…
Tagged with: Cloudian, Data Protection, Data Protection Workshop, Object Storage, Retention, Storage, Unstructured data, Webinar
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The ROI of Server-Side Caching
Implementing server-side caching with the right solid state disk (SSD) can be like conducting a ‘surgical strike’ on storage performance problems. Installing this combination of hardware and software can eliminate the storage roadblock to increased transactions per second, while not…
Tagged with: Cache, Hard disk drive, PCI, RAID, SanDisk, Servers, Solid-state drive, SSD, VMware
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Rationalizing Backup Licensing Strategies
The backup process has a myriad of costs associated with them. There is the obvious cost of the hardware – backup servers, backup storage and network infrastructure. There is also the cost of operations to manage the backup process. One…
Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Cloud computing, Linux, Storage Switzerland, VMware, Windows
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Mixed All-Flash Array Delivers Safer High Performance
Almost two years ago, Storage Switzerland predicted that automated tiering technologies would be able to do more than just move data between hard disk and flash. It would begin to move data between different types of flash based storage as…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Dell, Dell Compellent, Flash, IOPS, Multi-level cell, SLC, Solid-state drive
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Webinar – Overcoming the Risks of MLC Based All-Flash Arrays
Storage Switzerland was recently commissioned by Dell Storage to audit a lab test of their new Compellent All-Flash Array. This storage system is the first to tier between types of flash just like legacy storage systems tier between types of…
HGST an SSD Powerhouse? Buys Virident for $685 Million
HGST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Digital, announced that it will acquire Virident, a company rapidly becoming a resurgent force in the PCIe SSD marketplace. In addition to flash storage hardware Virident was hitting full stride with a line…
Tagged with: Acquisition, Enterprise storage, Flash, HGST, PCIe, SSD, VeloBit, Virident
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Webinar – The Five Myths of Server-side Caching – Separating Fact from Fiction
Server-side caching solutions seem to be the answer for every storage performance woe by enabling users to conduct a ‘surgical strike’ on storage I/O bottlenecks. But are they able to live up to all the hype? And what about the…
Proximal Data Cache Goes Cross-Everything
With the second major release of AutoCache, Proximal Data has taken steps to go cross-hypervisor and cross-storage platform. With 2.0 they can accelerate in NFS, iSCSI and Fibre channel environments as well as provide a performance boost to Hyper-V environments.…
Making Flash RAM Like
Server-side Flash and SSD has delivered significant storage I/O performance benefits to physical and virtualized host environments. While SSD provides many benefits, it is not without its drawbacks. By adding another device into a PCIe slot, for example, SSD resources…
Tagged with: Diablo Technologies, DIMM, Flash, Flash memory, PCI Express, SanDisk, Solid-state drive
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