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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

Are PCIe SSDs Breaking Your Storage Network? – and how to stop it

Posted on October 7, 2013 by George Crump

olid state drive (SSD) solutions using flash are becoming the ‘go to’ options for addressing storage performance bottlenecks. And within that technology category, PCIe based SSDs could represent the state of the art. By locating the flash in the server…

Tagged with: Hard disk drive, High Availability, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage area network, Virident, VMware
Posted in Article

Using All-Flash Arrays To Solve Tier-1 Database Problems

Posted on October 2, 2013 by George Crump

To solve tier-1 database performance problems, it is important to understand the nature of tier-1 applications. Standard definitions of tier-1 include: (i) extremely high cost, extremely high performance applications – sometimes referred to as “tier-0” (e.g., Wall Street trading platforms)…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Cache (computing), Hard disk drive, High Availability, RAID
Posted in Article

How To Design a 2 Million IOPS Storage Architecture

Posted on October 1, 2013 by George Crump

In order for databases to scale, virtual environments to become denser, and analytics to become more real-time, storage performance needs to scale. That means designing storage architectures that not only meet the needs of today’s applications but also the needs…

Tagged with: Brocade, Emulex, IOPS, Violin Memory, Virtualization, Webinar
Posted in Webinar

The Million IOPS Data Center

Posted on September 30, 2013 by George Crump

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,…

Tagged with: Emulex, Hardware, Intel, IOP, OpenVMS, Violin Memory
Posted in Blog

Webinar – 5 Reasons Object Storage Can Solve Unstructured Data Problems

Posted on September 19, 2013 by George Crump

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
Posted in Webinar

The ROI of Server-Side Caching

Posted on September 18, 2013 by George Crump

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…