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OnApp Scale Out SAN For The Cloud
Scale It As They Come Building a cloud infrastructure capable of meeting the varied performance, availability and resiliency demands of a vast customer base is daunting for even the most seasoned data center professionals. And yet, this is precisely what…
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Power Failure and Flash Storage
There has been a lot of discussion lately about the issue of power failures in flash based solid state storage systems. In various tests run by industry associations flash based solid state disk (SSD) devices, when subjected to a sudden power-loss,…
Tagged with: Flash memory, Flash memory controller, Hardware, Magnetoresistive random-access memory, Non-volatile memory, PCI Express, Skyera, Solid-state drive, SSD, Top10-2013
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Making Storage the VDI Solution, Not the Problem
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) has found a niche in call-center types of environments where very large numbers of workers run essentially the same desktops. But in the broader market VDI hasn’t seen the same success, a fact typically blamed on…
Tagged with: Desktop virtualization, Solid-state drive, Top10-2013, VDI, VeloBit, Virtual desktop, VirtualBox, VMware
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What Is GEN 5 Fibre?
Despite the best marketing efforts of various forms of IP based storage, Fibre Channel continues to gain momentum in the enterprise. The growth in large, real-time databases and the increasing VM density per physical host, as well as the proliferation…
Tagged with: Brocade, Fibre Channel, Gen 5, ISCSI, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network
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The Value of Real Time Backup Health Assessment
Change is good…or is it? The sheer volume and velocity of changes taking place in IT environments today is staggering. While change may be good for business needs, if left unchecked, improperly managed changes within the backup environment could deal…
Tagged with: Backup, EMC, Hypervisor, Monitoring, Real Time, Recovery, SLA, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware
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How To Scale Object Storage
Scalability has always been an important characteristic of enterprise storage systems, maybe the most important, since the rationale of consolidating storage assumes that the system can easily grow with aggregate demand. With applications like cloud storage, the ability to scale…
Tagged with: Cleversafe, Cloud storage, Network-attached storage, Object Storage, RAID, Scalability
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Cloud Defined Storage
Designing a SAN for the Cloud Service Provider Cloud Service Providers exist in unique market conditions. They are at the same time competitors to and complements to traditional data center IT. Every service they provide is under scrutiny, and those…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud computing, OnApp, Service-level agreement, Solid-state drive, Virtual machine
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How Legacy Storage Breaks The Cloud
As business data continues its relentless migration to the cloud, providers of cloud hosted environments and applications are creating the perfect storm for their legacy storage systems, a storm that will break the ‘cloud promise’. These environments require high scalability,…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Hardware, IOPS, OnApp, Scalability, Service-level agreement, Storage area network, Virtual machine
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Cloud Backup Requires Intelligent Recovery
Using the cloud as a destination for backups has evolved from a consumer solution into a viable option for many small businesses and larger enterprises. Today production applications and even entire virtualized environments are leveraging the cloud to augment their…
Tagged with: Backup, Business, Cloud computing, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHD Virtual Backup, PHDvirtual, Virtual machine
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