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…
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All-Flash Storage Efficiency Is About More Than Deduplication
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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Driving Down The Cost of Forever – How To Keep Data For A Long Time
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…
Part II – Selecting The Right Storage Architecture Design
Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash When re-thinking the storage architecture in the data center, the choice typically comes down to a few factors. The first is how much budget is there available? You can only buy the performance you…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hardware, Server, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage Resource Management
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Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash
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
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Backing Up Distributed Data
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…
