Almost two years ago, Storage Switzerland predicted that automated tiering technologies would be able to do more than just move data between hard disk and flash. It would begin to move data between different types of flash based storage as…
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Mixed All-Flash Array Delivers Safer High Performance
Tagged with: All-Flash, Dell, Dell Compellent, Flash, IOPS, Multi-level cell, SLC, Solid-state drive
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Is it Time to Upgrade Your Storage Evaluation Process?
In the modern data center, storage system upgrades are rarely caused by a storage system running out of capacity; rather, it more often occurs due to an unanticipated lack of performance or exorbitant maintenance prices. In fact, performance related upgrades…
Can Object Storage Solve the RAID TCO Challenge?
The cost of storage is important in all data-dependent companies, but in hyper-scale environments like web-based enterprises, it can literally consume the business. With the simultaneous requirements of scalable capacity, reliability and availability, these organizations face serious challenges with storage…
Tagged with: Backup, Cleversafe, Data integrity, Disk storage, Erasure code, Object Storage, Object-based, RAID
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Scale Data Protection With Your Virtual Environment
Thanks to an easy-to-measure return on investment (ROI) most data centers’ virtual server environments are growing rapidly. Many organizations have implemented a “virtualize first” policy, where all new servers are virtualized. In addition, legacy servers are being migrated to virtual…
Tagged with: Backup, Business, HP, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESX
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Hybrid Storage Needs SSD Cache Flexibility
While specialized all-flash storage systems grab the headlines, hybrid storage systems are increasingly becoming the workhorses of the data center, hosting the majority of applications, virtual machines and file shares. To expand the number of workloads that they can support…
Tagged with: Cache, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Hybrid array, Hybrid drive, Nexsan, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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Transform Backup Data into an Information Advantage
Backup infrastructure is somewhat like an expensive insurance policy. Large premiums are expended on backup hardware, software and people resources to collect, store and protect business information in the event a “claim”, or in this instance, a data recovery event…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Dropbox, ExaGrid, Hardware, HP, Site Management, Storage
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The Future of Backup is an Architecture Not an Application
While the applications that protect data have vastly improved over the last 20 years, they still often struggle to keep up with the technical challenges of data growth, shrinking backup and recovery windows and demands for greater disaster resilience. At…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Domain, EMC, Storage, Storage Switzerland, Top10-2013, Virtual machine
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The Benefits of Software-defined Server-side Storage
Hyperscale Data Centers, Managed Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers and large Enterprises all face a similar challenge; how to cost effectively scale their cloud/virtual infrastructures so that maximum return on investment can be achieved. The answer is to build scale-out…
Tagged with: Compuverde, Data center, OpenVMS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage virtualization, Virtual machine
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Are Flash Devices Putting Sensitive Data At Risk?
Flash based storage systems are now the “go to” option for improving the response time of performance sensitive applications. Some applications that require high performance are also storing extremely sensitive data that needs to be completely sanitized if the flash…
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