Since the introduction of flash, two primary methods for addressing application performance have emerged. First, the Hybrid Array that, using algorithms based on a dataset’s frequency of access, caches active data. The challenge with any algorithm that predicts future access…
The Bad Day Begins A message arrives on your smart phone indicating that the organization’s primary storage system is offline. All the applications that you were counting on it are down, and users can’t get their work done. Further investigation determines that this…
Desktop as a Service (DaaS) is a cloud hosted Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and has the potential to reduce the upfront costs and scaling issues associated with deploying virtual desktops. But these cloud hosted users still need to be able…
Early this year we compared the work involved in building a storage infrastructure around OpenStack Swift versus using SwiftStack. While the names OpenStack Swift and SwiftStack are similar, the process of getting to the point where you can write data…
Server side flash, in its various forms, served as a precursor to shared flash arrays. It allowed IT planners to surgically address specific application response time issues caused by storage without having to implement a flash based array. This saved…
FORT WORTH, Tx. – Experience and knowledge of the storage industry are hallmarks that have made Storage Switzerland one of the world’s leading storage analyst firms. The company is adding to its depth of experience and knowledge by adding Joseph…
Backup 2.0 Workshop On The Way To London We completed Backup 2.0 Dallas and we will be in London on October 22nd. A popular session during the workshop discusses leveraging secondary storage and creating a usable copy of data that is only a…
Software Defined Storage (SDS) provides the ability for multiple storage hardware elements to be managed through software, enabling a data center to have a common interface to pool, provision and protect storage assets across vendor platforms. This basic abstraction is a…
The Recovery Gap Storage Switzerland’s latest webinar, now available on demand, discussed ways that IT professionals could create the “Always-on Data Center”. In that webinar we asked a polling question that had surprising results. Over 89% of the attendees could…
The first generation of Software Defined Storage (SDS 1.0) was an important step forward for storage management, as it opened up choice within the data center while bringing some semblance of centralized management. SDS 2.0 takes the next step by…
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