After a few year hiatus higher capacity hard drives are coming to market. We expect 8TB drives to be readily available before the end of the year with 10TB drives soon to follow. And at the rate that capacity demands…
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How to safely use 8TB Drives in the Enterprise
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data Protection, Drives, Flash, Hedvig, performance, Protection, RAID, Reliability, Replication, SSD
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It’s time to “VMware” Storage
Before hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM came to market, data centers had few options when it came to managing the growth of their server infrastructure. They could buy one big server that ran multiple applications, which, while it simplified…
Tagged with: Data Mobility, Hypervisors, Internet of Things, ioFABRIC, QOS, Quality of service, Unstructured data, VDI
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Cost Justifying Flash For VDI Storage
Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) make a big promise to the data center manager; to substantially drive down the cost of supporting user desktops and laptops while increasing the security for them. But for a VDI project to be successful the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, ChalkTalk, Cloning, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, SSD, Tegile, Thin provisioning, VM
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IT Can’t Ignore the Video Surveillance Data Explosion
IT professionals are simultaneously being pulled in multiple directions. For most, data center management is more like triage than a well-engineered series of processes. As a result, IT managers and CIOs are very careful about which projects they “own”, which…
Tagged with: Architecture, Capacity, Hard disk, Retention, SpectraLogic, Surveillance
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The Criticality of Cabling Infrastructure in High Performance Storage Networking
Pushed by initiatives like high density virtualization, online database applications and low latency flash storage, fibre channel (FC) storage networking is entering a new era sooner than expected. These initiatives are forcing the move to 16Gb FC networking at a…
Tagged with: Cabling, Data Center Systems, FC, Fibre Channel, LAN, performance, Virtualization
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All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study
When it comes to business transformation, numbers matter. For CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments systems processing and data analytics, the integration of EMC XtremIO led to a transformation of their workloads, their infrastructure, and their…
The value of Global Primary Storage Deduplication
Standard deduplication is the elimination of redundant data on a single storage system. Whether that system is used for backup or primary data, the goal is to put as much data as possible on a single storage system so that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Global Deduplication, Permabit, Redundancy, Test/Dev, Thin provisioning, WAN
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Five Reasons to run MS-SQL on All-Flash
Applications are often the key service that data centers provide to their organizations. The speed at which these applications can respond to the user’s requests is often THE measurement of how IT is perceived by the organization. As a result…
Designing Primary Storage to Ease the Backup Burden
When IT planners map out their primary storage architectures they typically focus on how well the system will perform, how far it will scale and how reliable it will be. Data protection, that process that guards against corruption or system…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, dr, Nexenta, Protection, Replication, RPO, RTO, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage, Virtual machine, VM
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What are IOPS and should you care?
When evaluating a new storage system, especially an all-flash array, the number of IOPS (Inputs/Outputs per Second) that the storage system can sustain is often used to differentiate one storage system from another. But is this really a standard that…
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