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…
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…
If you’re an IT pro who is wearing a lot of hats, simplicity is the name of the game. Virtualization technology has made server management simpler, but storage infrastructure management still lags behind. Converged storage solutions promise ease of implementation…
During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “Is Convergence Right For You? 4 Questions To Ask”, we polled our audience and asked what percentage of their environment is virtualized. Over half of the respondents selected 25-50% of their environment is virtualized.…
Backup solutions that focus on protecting the virtual environment are becoming increasingly popular. Companies participating in this market include Veeam and PHD Virtual (acquired by Unitrends). But there is another company that is sometimes left out of the conversation that…
Legacy storage vendors have faced a unique challenge as they tried to address the emerging flash opportunity. Unlike startups that could essentially start with a “blank sheet of paper”, these vendors had existing customers to care for. Their first mission…
Recently EMC announced that they were upgrading the storage software that drives their XtremIO to be able to compress and deduplicate data. This is an important addition, since not all data benefits from deduplication, databases being a good example. But…
When a data center makes the jump to all-flash arrays the impact is dramatic. Applications respond quick and IT operations become simpler as administrators stop spending hours squeezing performance out of hard disk bound systems. This means it’s “game on”…
Many organizations are considering the cloud for enhancing SQL application availability and business continuity. This is especially true for those small to medium sized businesses that don’t have the budgets to implement redundant data center infrastructure to support high availability…
As we’ve mentioned in previous columns, in order for a VDI project to have any chance of success it has to deliver at least the same computing experience users had prior to their desktop being virtualized. That makes sense, but…
