At Storage Switzerland, we have the privilege of talking to IT professionals from around the world about a variety of subjects, one of the most popular of which is storage I/O performance. While IOPS is a familiar discussion point both…
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Analyst Blog: The IOPS Gap
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, I/O, IOPS, performance
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Copy Data vs. Snapshots
As I discussed in an earlier column “Not All Snapshots are the Same”, storage systems that use a re-directed snapshot technique can typically maintain thousands of snapshots without impacting storage performance. But just because you can maintain thousands of snapshots,…
Tagged with: Backup, Copy Data, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Point-in-Time, Retention, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined Storage
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Enterprise- vs Consumer-grade Flash in the Datacenter: How to Choose
Using consumer-grade flash drives in datacenter environments is a common practice for saving money. So it wasn’t a big surprise that two-thirds of attendees on a recent StorageSwiss webinar reported that they currently use both enterprise and consumer SSDs in…
Tagged with: Backup, Flash, Hyper-scale, Metadata, OCZ, performance, Redundancy, Reliability, SSD
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Analyst Blog: If Primary Storage Protects itself, what is Backup for?
In our last few columns, Storage Switzerland has described a data protection solution that allows primary storage to leverage snapshot technology to protect itself. The basic design requires two storage systems, one on-premise and one at a disaster recovery location.…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objectives, RPO, RTO, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage
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Not all Snapshots are the same
In an upcoming webinar, Storage Switzerland will make the case for using snapshots as a primary component of data protection. For this strategy to work several things are needed from the storage infrastructure. First, it must be able to keep…
Tagged with: Backup, Copy-on-write, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Nexenta, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots
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Who’s missing from the Gartner’s Storage Magic Quadrant?
In my last four columns we looked at all four sections of the Gartner Magic Quadrant, the popular graphic that analyzes and ranks various storage vendors on different products, this one on their ability to provide a primary storage system.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Analyst Opinion, Data Protection, Gartner, Hard disk, Opinion, Software Defined Storage, Startup, Unstructured data
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Analyst Blog: Why you DO need to Backup the SaaS Cloud
In my last column I discussed how cloud usage is approaching the ‘tipping point’, where companies will have to use the cloud in order to meet their expected infrastructure demands. Coupled with the price wars that are going on between…
Tagged with: Backup, Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Recovery, SaaS, Software as a service
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What’s wrong with using Snapshots for Data Protection?
Snapshots are a standard feature of most storage systems today. They offer a remarkable ability to save a file at specific points in time without actually making a copy of it; in fact, they’re also referred to as “point in…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Metadata, Nexenta, performance, Replication, Snapshots, Software Defined
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Analyst Opinion: Analyzing the Niche section of the Gartner Magic Quadrant
In my last three columns I have analyzed the Leader, Visionary, and Challenger sections of the Gartner Magic Quadrant. In this column we will take a look at the most confusing part of the Gartner chart, the Niche section. Section…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Gartner, Hardware, Opinion, Primary Storage, SDS, Software, Software Defined Storage
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Why all Companies will soon need a different kind of “Cloud Backup”
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 –…
