Recently we sat down with Wim Provost, Product Manager for Open vStorage, for a podcast to discuss their new solutions that better enable OpenStack to run virtual machines. OpenStack is a set of open source software tools, typically used by…
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OpenStack as a Virtual Machine Storage Platform
Tagged with: Architecture, Cloud, Infrastructure, Object Storage, Open Storage, OpenStack, Virtual machine, VM, VM Migration
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Secure Private Cloud File Sharing
File sharing and collaboration is critical for businesses that have highly distributed workforces but maintaining control and security over sensitive business data is equally important. File sharing solution provider, Talon, is helping to deliver cloud enabled file sharing to businesses…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Collaboration, Data Mobility, File Sharing, File Sync, Hybrid Cloud, NAS, Talon Storage, VPN, WAN
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Michael Dell’s Keynote – A new company and new products – Dell World 2014
During Michael Dell’s keynote presentation at Dell World 2014 the CEO emphasized the company’s renewed customer focus and how they’re leveraging the 2 billion customer conversations they have every year. He didn’t go into how this number was calculated but…
Tagged with: Compellent, DAS, Dell, Dell World, EqualLogic, Flash, Infrastructure, Internet of Things, ISCSI, Nutanix, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Web-scale
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Dell World 2014 – Michael Dell’s opening Press Conference
It’s been a year since Dell became a private company. At his opening press conference at Dell World 2014 Michael Dell sounded like a CEO who likes coming to work every day, no longer subjected to Wall Street’s fixation over…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Converge, DAS, Dell, Dell World, Disk array, Hybrid, ISCSI, Software Defined
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The four steps to Predictable Hybrid Array Performance
Hybrid All-Flash Arrays drive down cost by mixing high performance flash with cost effective hard disk drives (HDD). Establishing predictable performance is the chief concern for Hybrid Array buyers. As long as data is being accessed from the flash tier,…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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Why is IT being compared to Facebook?
When business application owners begin referring to Facebook as the standard for application availability, IT organizations are being put on notice – deliver or we will go elsewhere. The challenge is that traditional high availability clustering technologies can be costly,…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SIOS Technology
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At EMC, the 3rd Platform is all about the Metadata
With EMC’s acquisition of Spanning, the data protection arm of EMC’s new core technologies division (CTD) now has a tool for protecting data in cloud based applications like Salesforce.com, Google Apps and Office 365. This was a needed acquisition that…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Data Protection, EMC, Metadata, Object Storage
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Backup Service Level Agreements vs. Service Level Objectives
Backup vendors and integrators have long tried to get organizations to set and maintain service level agreements (SLA) for various processes in their data centers including data protection. Creating SLAs for any process is a painstaking process, for data protection…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO, Synnex
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Seagate’s Kinetic Drives reduce Object Storage costs – now GA
After a one-year incubation, Seagate’s Kinetic Open Storage Platform is now generally available. It features disk drives that communicate with applications over Ethernet, using a key-value architecture and RESTful APIs, instead of traditional protocols like SCSI or SATA. What’s different…
Tagged with: Capacity, Hard Drive, JBOD, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Seagate, TCO
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How To Achieve Facebook “Like” High Availability in the Cloud
When IT organizations start being compared to Facebook, in terms of application availability, it is clear that business application owners are becoming increasingly less tolerant of ANY application downtime. In fact during a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “HA and DR…
Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS Technology
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