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Is Commodity Storage Hardware really less expensive?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by George Crump

In his recent blog, Hitachi Data Systems’ CTO, Hu Yoshida, discusses the top 10 business trends that will impact IT in 2015. Number four on his list is “Software Defined Everything”. One of the theoretical selling points of software defined…

Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Cloud, Commodity Hardware, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Software Defined, Trends
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Backup 2.0 – How Primary Storage, Backup Software and Backup Hardware are solving data protection challenges

Posted on December 3, 2014 by George Crump

Data protection is more than just backup and backup is more that just moving data from point A to point B. Data centers need to design a layered data protection strategy that allows them to meet a wide variety of…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, RAID, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLO, Storage, Virtual machine, VM
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Deduplication makes Hybrid Arrays more predictable

Posted on December 2, 2014 by George Crump

Hybrid arrays, arrays that mix flash and hard drives in order to strike a balance between dollar per GB and dollar per IOP, typically cause one common point of concern for IT planners; Predictably. One of the key ways to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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Why Business-Defined IT may well Define IT in 2015

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Eric Slack

One of the IT trends that we see coming in 2015 is something called “Business-Defined IT”. This is essentially a focus for IT on collaborating with internal business entities and providing business services rather than just building and running infrastructure.…

Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Business-Defined IT, Cloud, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Trends
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Converged vs Hyperconverged Infrastructure

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Colm Keegan

IT organizations are increasingly coming under pressure to deliver business application services with the same speed and agility as their public cloud counterparts. The bottom line is if IT can’t be responsive to the needs of the business, they may…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing
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Primary Data provides Virtualized Data for Virtualized Infrastructures

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Colm Keegan

If Primary Data can do to data storage what VMware did to server computing, there could be a titanic shift in the storage industry in the coming years. Primary Data’s “data virtualization” platform is designed to liberate information from the…

Tagged with: Data Abstration, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Metadata, Primary Data, Software Defined, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Nimble adds Fibre Channel and increases Hybrid System Capacity to 1.6PB

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Eric Slack

Nimble Storage has developed and marketed a successful line of iSCSI-based ‘hybrid’ storage arrays (disk and flash) designed for a wide range of use cases. These systems scale up, adding drive shelves behind a controller module, and scale out, clustering…

Tagged with: Adaptive Flash, All-Flash, Capacity, FC, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Nimble, performance, SSD
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How does your Hyperconverged Solution store Data?

Posted on November 24, 2014 by George Crump

As we discussed in our recent webinar, “Is Convergence Right for You?“, converged or hyperconverged architectures can come in various forms, ranging from a bundle of multiple vendor’s hardware and software, to a software only – bring your own server…

Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing, Virtual machine, VM
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Pure Storage enhances Forever Flash

Posted on November 21, 2014 by George Crump

In early 2014, Pure Storage backed up its belief that flash storage was more than reliable enough for the enterprise by creating its “Forever Flash” program. The goal of the program was to end the longstanding practice of maintenance extortion…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data center, Flash, performance, Pure, Storage, storage array
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Virtualized Cloud Backup for Anything

Posted on November 21, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Many technology companies talk a good game about providing their customers with choice, but few actually deliver on it. Public, private and hybrid cloud backup solution provider, Infrascale’s offering was built from the ground up with customer choice and hybrid…