Gartner recently predicted we’ll reach a tipping point in 2018 when traditional data centers won’t be able to keep up with the growing demands of “digital business”. They’re also predicting a continuing price war among the largest cloud providers –…
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The cost of using low-cost Hardware in Hyper-scale Data Centers
Every IT organization strives to economize, but in the high-density, rack-mounted world of hyper-scale data centers, the pressure to reduce operating costs can be especially severe. These are the scale-out, clustered environments trusted to support most public clouds and many…
Designing Data Protection for the 100% Availability Perception
Thanks primarily to cloud based services users have been exposed to data centers that are able to offer at least the perception of applications that never go down and data that is never deleted. A simple Google search will reveal…
Tagged with: Availability, Data Protection, Recovery, Recovery in Place, Retention, RPO, RTO, Veeam, Virtualization
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Analyst Blog: Which RAID Level should you use for your SSD Tier?
In a recent webinar I discussed how a Hybrid System could be architected so that it could perform as well, or almost as well, as an All-Flash Array. If the IT planner decides to implement a Hybrid Array, there is…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, RAID, Solid State Disk, SSD
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Analyst Opinion: The Boring Section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant
Gartner recently released its updated view of the storage industry, ranking vendors on their ability to execute and the completeness of their vision in a graphic they call the Magic Quadrant. In my last two columns I provided analysis of…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Cloud, DataDirect Networks, DDN, Fujitsu, Gartner, HPC, Huawei, Object Storage, Opinion, Oracle
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Does Replication equal DR Readiness?
In our recent webinar, “Flexible HA and DR for Virtual Server and Cloud Environments”, a majority of attendees indicated that replication was their sole method of providing high availability and protecting from disaster. While copying data to a secondary storage…
Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS, SQL Server, Virtual Server
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The role of Tape in Primary Storage Data Protection
Recently I discussed how primary storage, thanks to the use of replication and snapshots, can take a larger role in the data protection and application recovery process. We call this the “Primary Storage Data Protection Strategy”. But, to be effective,…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Fujifilm, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, Primary Storage, Redundancy, Replication, Snapshots, Tape
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Can All-Flash Eliminate IT Silos?
In a recent customer profile “All-Flash in Real Life: CMA – XtremIO Database Consolidation Case Study” Storage Switzerland did an extensive interview with CMA, a leading healthcare application service provider for Medicaid payments, systems processing, and data analytics. During that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Consolidation, EMC, Flash, Hard disk drive, HDD, performance, Scale-Out, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, XtremIO
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What impacts All-Flash Storage Performance
There are a number of factors that impact the performance of an All-Flash or Hybrid storage system. These systems are all based on the same basic foundation, flash memory acting as storage. In the hard drive era, inefficient software and…
What is Hadoop and can Object Storage make it better?
Hadoop, first used by large cloud providers like Yahoo, Facebook and Google, is designed to allow massive amounts of compute resources to process very large, unstructured datasets. The technology is now firmly entrenched in government agencies and is now working…
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