Unstructured data is file based data that is most commonly associated with user productivity applications like word processing, spreadsheets and presentation files. But unstructured data also includes rich media from training videos, photos, CAD-CAM drawings etc., plus the data created…
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Big Data Demands Big Changes to Legacy Backup Licensing
It is no surprise that backup related expenditures represent a major cost center for most data center environments. As data grows, so grows the need to increase the hardware and software resources for protecting this information. Denser disk and tape…
Server Side Caching vs. Raid Controller Caching
Caching is an ideal way to maximize an investment in solid state disk (SSD), especially in virtual environments where massively random I/O patterns are the norm. Caching provides an automated way to make sure that the most active data is…
Tagged with: Cache, Disk array controller, Intel, PCI Express, RAID, Servers, Solid-state drive, Virtual machine
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How NVDIMM Can Protect Flash SSD Appliances
As Storage Switzerland discussed in two articles recently flash based appliances are particularly vulnerable to power failures. This vulnerability is related to the way these appliances use DRAM to buffer writes and to store meta data tables. DRAM is volatile,…
Any-to-Any Hypervisor Image Recovery
Hypervisor server diversification is becoming a key initiative for many businesses. In an effort to lower licensing costs by introducing competition for their hypervisor footprint, many organizations may be unwittingly taking on the potential burden of added infrastructure management, higher…
Tagged with: Acronis, Data deduplication, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Physical-to-Virtual, Virtual machine, VMware
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The TCO of Meeting a Backup Window
Backup is a budget area that’s considered an expense, one for which investment is typically minimized. When money is spent it often goes to short-term fixes for the most essential parts of the process, like meeting the backup window. This…
Tagged with: Backup, Data deduplication, Hardware, Information technology, Sepaton
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How to Make Reliable SSDs – Reliable NAND Flash
“Reliability” in a storage context means that the storage infrastructure can be counted on to keep data safe and to produce that data in a reasonable timeframe when called upon. While it’s true that storage systems have redundancies built in…
Tagged with: DRAM, ECC, Flash memory, Micron, Multi-level cell, RAID, Solid-state drive, SSD
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VMware Server Side Caching – Flash SSD or DRAM
Server virtualization has a well-documented problem; it creates an I/O blender that can bring storage networks and storage systems to their knees. The I/O blender vs. the desire to design increasingly dense virtual machine (VM) architectures has created a new…
Tagged with: DRAM, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Infinio, Solid-state drive, Virtual machine, VMware
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Next Generation Scale-Out NAS
The use cases for Network Attached Storage (NAS) have changed dramatically in the 20 years since the first NAS appeared. NAS hardware architectures have also changed. So have the capacities and performance levels that NAS systems are asked to support.…
Tagged with: Compellent Storage Center, Dell, NAS, Network-attached storage, OPS, Scale-Out, Solid-state drive
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