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Making Storage the VDI Solution, Not the Problem

Posted on April 9, 2013 by George Crump

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?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by George Crump

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

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Colm Keegan

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 Legacy Storage Breaks The Cloud

Posted on March 14, 2013 by George Crump

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

Posted on March 7, 2013 by George Crump

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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A Better Answer than RAID and Replication for Cloud Storage

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Eric Slack

Cloud applications and web-based services, such photo sharing sites, create some monumental challenges for a storage infrastructure. Not only must they expand almost without limit, they also need to protect and secure data sets, typically for thousands or millions of…

Tagged with: Cleversafe, Data corruption, Data integrity, Disk array, Erasure code, Object Storage, RAID, Replication
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The Cost of Over-Provisioning Flash Arrays

Posted on February 5, 2013 by George Crump

All-Flash Arrays have to overcome two key obstacles when trying to gain acceptance as storage systems which can be utilized across a wide number of use cases in the data center. First, they must be durable and secondly, they must…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Data center, Flash memory, Skyera, Solid State, Solid-state drive
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Are All PCIe SSDs Created Equal?

Posted on January 16, 2013 by George Crump

One of the more popular approaches to implementing solid state disks (SSDs) is to implement the flash memory on a PCIe card, which is installed directly into a server. This places the high performance storage directly at the point of…