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Software-Defined Storage – Over-Hyped or Overdue?

Posted on March 10, 2015 by George Crump

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?

Posted on March 3, 2015 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Amplidata, Capacity, HGST, Next Generation, Object, Object Storage
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SolidFire Analyst Day: Unlimited Drive Wear, Seamless Upgrades, more Platforms

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Eric Slack

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

Posted on March 2, 2015 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Cloud, Disaster recovery, Flash, Hybrid, I/O, Infrastructure, Latency, SSD, Webinar
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Micron Invests Big to Drive Flash Innovation Outside of the Box

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Eric Slack

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?

Posted on February 27, 2015 by George Crump

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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Analyst Blog: Are there Problems with Software Defined Storage?

Posted on February 27, 2015 by George Crump

In a recent article we discussed three potential problems with software defined storage (SDS). When we write these types of articles the goal is to bring to light areas of consideration for IT professionals contemplating taking the SDS plunge. The…

Tagged with: Converged, Disaster recovery, FUD, Replication, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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How Software-defined Storage is Enabling Snapshot-based Data Protection

Posted on February 26, 2015 by Eric Slack

Snapshots are powerful tools for creating a primary storage data protection system, one that offers faster recovery and can even replace traditional backup altogether. But protecting against primary storage system failure, which would render the snapshots useless, requires a second…

Overcoming the Challenges of Snapshot Data Protection

Posted on February 26, 2015 by George Crump

In February Storage Switzerland held two webinars that used similar techniques to address an age old problem: data protection. Both of these webinars asked primary storage to take a larger role in its own protection. One webinar discussed using snapshots…

Tagged with: Copy Data, Data Protection, Deduplication, performance, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Replication, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Test/Dev
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Solving the Big Three VDI Storage problems

Posted on February 25, 2015 by George Crump

Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) have the potential of reducing the cost to deploy and support an organization’s desktops and laptops. But VDI presents three big problems to the storage infrastructure; assuring the proper use of flash, the proper placement of…