Flash Virtualization Myth #1 – All-Flash Arrays are a “must” for Virtualization There are a lot of myths surrounding the use of flash and virtualization, in our on demand webinar we expose the top 4. One of those myths is…
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Virtualization and All-Flash Arrays, a Must Have?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Flash Performance, HDD, Hybrid, performance, Tegile, virtual environment, Virtualization, VM
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Minor Disasters and the IT Professionals they hurt
In a way, the best disaster that can happen to your organization is one that brings down the data center and makes it inaccessible for weeks. These disasters, often naturally created, make headlines everywhere. While recovering from one of these…
Overcoming the Biggest Roadblock to the Always-On Data Center
Believing in the Always-On Data Center One of the topics in our on demand webinar, “Making The Always-On Data Center A Reality”, is overcoming the roadblocks to the Always-On Data Center. In this webinar experts from Storage Switzerland, Veeam and…
Tagged with: Backup, CBT, ExaGrid, QOS, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Flash Showdown – Which Flash is best for MS-SQL, Server or Shared?
In our on-demand webinar “Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL?” one of the polling questions delivered a surprising result; 67% of respondents that were using flash to accelerate MS-SQL, were using flash inside of the server, instead of shared flash on the…
Virtualization is Critical to the Always-On Data Center
The concept of an always-on application has been a reality for years thanks to clustered applications and add-on High Availability (HA) software, but meeting this expectation can be expensive and complicated. Expand the scope beyond a single application, to an entire…
Tagged with: Backup, ExaGrid, QOS, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Why would you buy a Storage System without QoS?
QoS (Quality of Service) is a topic that’s becoming more common in storage discussions, partly due to the rise of multi-tenant environments like public clouds. QoS puts management controls on storage resources, especially processing power, so they can maintain performance…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Consolidation, Hybrid, QOS, Quality of service, Shared Storage, Sharing, Virtualization, VVOL
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Did Flash just kill Disk?
Violin Memory Systems has started a marketing campaign pronouncing the death of hard disk drives. They are quick to qualify that disk is dead in terms of primary storage. Violin even had some cool tombstones made up. I want to agree with…
Situational Disaster Recovery
In IT there is a tendency to treat all disasters the same, at least from a planning perspective. But the reality is that data is protected in a variety of ways; with snapshots, replication, backup to disk, backup to cloud…
Tagged with: Backup, Disaster recovery, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, SLO, Snapshots, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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MS-SQL Performance – Things to do before you Flash
Prior to implementing a flash solution, it is important to make sure the environment is ready for it so maximum value can be extracted from the flash investment. Watch this trailer from our Webinar “Which Flash is Best for MS-SQL?…
The Apple Watch is Software-Defined Storage
Is seems that Apple has another success on its hands in the Apple Watch, but did you know that the Apple Watch could also be considered Software-Defined Storage (SDS)? I come to this conclusion based on the definition (a.k.a. rationalization)…
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