In our last entry we published our top 25 most read articles of 2015. Analysis of that list shows five key trends that IT professionals are trying to wrap their heads around as we enter 2016, but these trends can…
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Responsiveness: THE Storage Watchword for 2016
Tagged with: Backup, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, IOPS, Latency, Next Generation, SDS, Software Defined
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The StorageSwiss Top 25 for 2015
In terms of visitors, 2015 was a record year for StorageSwiss.com, and at the end of each year we take a look at the top 25 read articles as indicated by our analytics. Our top 25 list is taken from…
Analyst Blog: NetApp/SolidFire – Playing it Safe and Wasting $870 Million
Last week, ahead of the acquisition, we gave suggestions to NetApp on what it should do if it acquires SolidFire. This week NetApp moved forward with the purchase, and now $870 million later owns one of the better all-flash array…
Tagged with: Acquisition, All-Flash Array, Flash, NetApp, Next Generation, performance, SolidFire, SSD
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Unintended Consequences – All-Flash Arrays are Shrinking the Storage Market
The consensus outcome of reports on the ‘state of the storage market’ shows a market that is in decline by at least 10 percent. Those same research firms indicate that overall data capacity is growing at an alarming rate. So…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Capacity, Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, performance, SSD, Unstructured data
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What is Tape? – A History and a Future
Tape, as a data storage medium in computers, is a technology that is over 60 years old and was first used to backup data from a Univac I system back in 1951. It continued to be used to back up…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cold Data, Crossroads, Data Protection, Fujifilm, Tape
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Analyst Blog: Making a NetApp/SolidFire Deal Work
The rumors around a potential NetApp/Solidfire deal seem to be heating up. My research leads me to believe there are some conversations between the two companies. CRN suggests that NetApp is interested in acquiring SolidFire for over a billion dollars.…
What’s next for Flash? Lower Latency and reduced costs
As we discussed in a recent entry “The Flash Performance Euphoria is OVER” the next generation of flash solutions will be compared to the performance of the first generation of flash solutions not hard disk drives. Users have learned that…
Leveraging Hybrid Flash to Answer the Storage Performance Call
Case Study Preview When virtualized applications experience performance problems, the complaints are always forwarded to IT administrators such as Fritz Gielow. Fritz is the storage administrator for the County of Nevada in California, and after upgrading to VMware vSphere 5.1…
Storage Controllers Active-Active vs. Active-Passive
The storage controller is the compute part of a storage array that runs the storage software. If the storage controller fails, the storage software can’t run and the array goes offline. As a result, redundant storage controllers are critical to…
Tagged with: Active-Active, Active-Passive, Controller, Hybrid array, LUNs, Tegile, VMware
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Why Tape still matters today
In our column, “What’s Better than Cloud Storage for Cold Data”, my colleague George Crump discussed how cloud storage can be a cost effective alternative to onsite storage for active data, but where cold data is concerned it becomes a…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Cold Data, Crossroads, Data Protection, Fujifilm, Tape
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