As we discussed in our recent webinar, “What Better for VDI, All-Flash or Hybrid?” user acceptance is critical to a successful project. One of the keys to that acceptance is making sure that users are given at least the performance…
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Backup is a Fractured Mess and DR is worse – Can the Cloud Save us?
Cloud backup solution provider Zetta.net recently surveyed over 400 IT professionals from a wide range of industries, asking questions like what types of backups were being done, what operating systems were being protected, how virtualized the environment was, and how…
Making Cents of Flash for VDI
There is a tug of war that occurs when designing storage for a virtual desktop infrastructure. Flash solves a lot of problems and provides users with an excellent desktop experience, but it can also upset the delicate price per desktop…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, performance, Tegile, VDI
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Analyst Blog: What is Real Software Defined Storage?
When it comes to defining specific parts of the storage industry the definition should be as general as possible, avoiding vendor specifics while not being so generic that it becomes useless and doesn’t categorize anything. We’ve successfully applied this philosophy…
Software-Defined Storage – Over-Hyped or Overdue?
The interest in Software-Defined Storage (SDS) is at an all-time high and data center operators want to know if now is the time to move towards this type of a storage infrastructure. In our latest workshop series “Software Defined Storage…
Tagged with: Infrastructure, Replication, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage, Thin provisioning, Virtualization
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HGST Buys Amplidata – The Beginning of an Object Storage Shopping Spree?
As we reported last year HGST is on a shopping spree, and that spree continues into 2015 as today HGST announced that is has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Amplidata. The purpose of the Amplidata acquisition is to…
SolidFire Analyst Day: Unlimited Drive Wear, Seamless Upgrades, more Platforms
SolidFire has historically been a solution targeted for service providers and private clouds, with features that support Quality of Service (QoS), multi-tenancy, automation, etc. Their plan has been to provide a consolidated, high-performance storage solution that scales seamlessly and can…
Tagged with: Flash, QOS, Quality of service, SaaS, Software as a service, SolidFire, SSD
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The Three Steps to an All-Flash Data Center you can afford
Most data does not need to be on flash storage. It is either seldom accessed, or improving the speed of its access won’t impact application performance or user productivity. But there is a core set of data in the data…
Micron Invests Big to Drive Flash Innovation Outside of the Box
Fifty percent of enterprise data centers are leaving the big storage companies, according to Micron VP, Darren Thomas, and chip vendors like Micron can’t simply rely on these OEMs any more to sustain and grow their businesses. This was a…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Big data, Briefing, Flash, HDD, Hyperscale, Micron, NAND, Software Defined, SSD, Unstructured data
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Analyst Blog: Why Design a Forever Retention Strategy?
In 2015 Storage Switzerland is again partnering with Storage Decision / TechTarget to deliver a 13 city road tour on data protection, entitled “Backup 2.0”. As I discussed in a previous column, in these sessions we are going to break…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Data Retention, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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