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The ROI of an early Storage Refresh

Posted on November 12, 2014 by George Crump

When a storage system is purchased, the hope is that it will meet the storage performance and capacity demands of the data center for 3-5 years. Thanks to the changing compute environment and capabilities available from new storage systems, it…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Return On Investment, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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Should you be able to turn All-Flash Deduplication off?

Posted on November 10, 2014 by George Crump

Deduplication, along with compression, provides the ability to more efficiently use premium priced flash capacity. But capacity efficiency comes with at least some performance impact. This is especially true on all-flash arrays where data efficiency features can’t hide behind hard…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Kaminario, Latency, Permabit, Pure, SolidFire, Tegile, Texas Memory Systems, Violin Memory
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OpenStack as a Virtual Machine Storage Platform

Posted on November 10, 2014 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Architecture, Cloud, Infrastructure, Object Storage, Open Storage, OpenStack, Virtual machine, VM, VM Migration
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Secure Private Cloud File Sharing

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Colm Keegan

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

Posted on November 7, 2014 by Eric Slack

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

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Eric Slack

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

Posted on November 4, 2014 by George Crump

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?

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Colm Keegan

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

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Colm Keegan

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

Posted on November 3, 2014 by George Crump

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…