When flash storage first came to market it exposed the weakness in storage designs, hidden by the latency of hard disk media. Now, NVMe promises to expose weaknesses in the designs of the first generation of all-flash arrays. One of…
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Realizing the Full Potential of NVMe – E8 Storage Briefing Note
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, E8, FC, Flash, HPC, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, Replication, Scale, SSD
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Posted in Briefing Note
What is True Cloud-Based VMware Backup?
VMware specific backup solutions have been around for years, and most of them have added some form of cloud connectivity to their feature set. But, most of these options simply use the cloud as a digital dumping ground and don’t…
2018 SMB Disaster Preparedness Guide
Small to medium-sized businesses face unique challenges when it comes to disaster recovery. They have to deal with a much tighter budget than a larger business, while at the same time having to meet very similar recovery expectations for users.…
Tagged with: BLI, CBT, dr, Hypervisor, MS-SQL, Nakivo, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SMB, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: Cloud Storage vs. On-Premises Storage
Enterprise IT managers know the pain of explosive growth in unstructured data. Managing that data requires an “all hands-on deck” strategy. It is imperative that IT tame this data beast by using every tool at its disposal, including the cloud.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cloudian, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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Posted in Webinar
“Just Adding Another Node” – The Hidden HCI Scale Complexity
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is supposed to make scaling easier. When the architecture needs to deliver more compute power, storage performance or storage capacity, just add another node. The problem is “just adding another node”, especially as the number of nodes…
Tagged with: Erasure Coding, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, Replication, Software Defined, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: Flash to Flash to Cloud – Three Steps to Ending the Storage Nightmare
Three primary storage challenges that keep IT up at night: How to keep up with application performance demand How to affordably manage and store the vast amount of data that IT has to store How to protect that data so…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconvergence, Migration, Tegile, Virtualization
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SlideShare: Amazon RE:Invent for Storage Professionals – Three Capabilities to Look For
This was the sixth year of Amazon RE:Invent. In this webinar listen to Storage Switzerland, Avere Systems and SwiftStack for a storage professional’s guide to the event. Learn about: The different tiers of the Amazon storage offering How to create…
Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Avere, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, SwiftStack
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Posted in Slideshare
How Concerned Should US Data Centers Be About GDPR?
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is set to go in effect in a matter of months, yet according to a SpiceWorks Survey, only 9% of US IT professionals feel they have a good understanding of the regulation.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, GDPR, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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Can HCI Guarantee Application Performance?
Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCI) promise simplicity; simpler management and simpler scaling. One of the challenges though is that as an organization scales it also starts to expect specific response times from specific applications. Priorities set in, and IT must assure the…
Tagged with: Compression, CPU, Deduplication, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, QOS, Replication, Snapshot, Tintri, Virtualization
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Can Software Defined Networking Bring Scale to HCI? – Big Switch HCI Briefing Note
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) is one of those technologies that look great on the whiteboard. The idea of collapsing the compute, storage and networking tiers into one, and creating an infrastructure that automatically scales as each node is added to the…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, HCI, Hyperconverged, Redundancy, SAS, SATA, SDN, SSD, VM, VSAN
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