Three Steps To A Productive Relationship That Ensures Optimal Database Performance When database performance issues arise, the finger of blame is often pointed at the storage infrastructure, and this can lead to conflict between the database administrator and the storage…
Organizations that have fully embraced virtualization are buying host-class servers to put their VMs on. This equipment is “richer” in its configuration, with more processing power, more memory and higher quality components than the typical server designed for a single…
Being a cloud provider is a challenging proposition. Like a utility, a cloud provider (public or private) has to support almost any level of user consumption and maintain that support as demand changes, with little or no advanced notice. These…
What does the record turntable and a mainframe computer have in common? Plenty, according to Guy Churchward, President of EMC’s Data Protection and Availability Division. During EMC World 2014, Guy made an interesting comparison about how both the music industry…
In the traditional data center, leveraging the cloud for anything more than backup seems like a futuristic pipe dream. While some data centers may be using a cloud service for backups and potentially disaster recovery, the thought of using the…
Small businesses can range in size from a few employees to a few hundred and the IT needs of these organizations are similarly varied. As they climb their way up from “small” and into “medium” those IT needs evolve, one…
How To Backup And Protect Data In A Mobile World According to MarketWatch, approximately every 3.5 seconds someone in America loses a cell phone. Similarly, other end-user edge devices like laptops and tablets are also prone to loss or theft…
Flash has made its way into enterprise data centers, replacing or augmenting hard disk drives (HDDs) in more and more servers. But many users seem to fixate on one characteristic of NAND flash solid state drives (SSDs), the fact that…
Many organizations are considering flash caching as a cost-effective way to accelerate application workloads. The challenge is virtual infrastructure planners need to sift through a myriad of flash caching options available on the market. One of the most popular flash…
Putting flash in the application server is becoming the performance solution of choice, but how do you choose which type of flash to use? Let’s start by taking a look at the different types of SSDs available for use in…
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