The title of this entry, “Which All-flash Architecture Do You Prefer?”, was actually a question asked on the LinkedIn group, “Storage: SAN, NAS“, a couple of days ago. It was in response to a recent post by Calvin Zito @HPStorageGuy…
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Which All-flash Architecture do you prefer?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Architecture, Backup, Capacity, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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Achieving the right RPO for your Virtualized Environment
Recovery Point Objective (RPO) is potentially the most important requirement to understand when protecting any application or environment. RPO is essentially the amount of data that will be lost when an application is recovered. The less frequent the protection the…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, RPO, RTO, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Veeam, Virtual, VM
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HDS addresses the Mobility Challenge – for Users and IT
The watchword in IT and in storage, according to HDS, is “mobility”, as mobile users and mobile devices continue to impact every aspect of data storage, now and in the near future. At the Next-Gen Storage Summit, we spoke with…
Tagged with: Cache, Cloud, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Mobility, Next Generation Storage Summit, Virtual machine, VM
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Amplidata redefines “Scale-out” Storage and Improves Erasure Coding
One of the meetings at the Next-Gen Storage Summit (NGSS) was by the Object Storage Alliance, a group of many of the companies in this technology space offering storage systems and related products. There was a lively discussion about what…
Tagged with: Amplidata, Architecture, Efficiency, Next Generation Storage Summit, Object Storage, Object Storage Alliance, Scale-Out
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Don’t treat your Backup like an Archive
As the repository of last resort, backups are unique. They essentially store every piece of data in the company, at least all the data that’s worth saving. In order to do this, modern backup systems, which are often disk-based appliances,…
Why HGST is now building Storage Systems
Historically, HGST (a subsidiary of WD) and other drive manufacturers have done an impressive job with innovation both from an incremental perspective (when you build millions of units, you get good at fine tuning a technology) and with larger scale…
Seagate’s CSS offers a White box with a Logo
At the Next-Gen Storage Summit, Storage Switzerland had a chance to talk with Seagate’s Cloud Systems and Solutions (CSS) group, a new division that came out of their acquisitions of disk array manufacturer Xyratex and eVault, the cloud backup provider.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commodity Hardware, Converged Architecture, Infrastructure, Next Generation Storage Summit, Seagate, Software Defined
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Exclusive Report: Virtualization made simple with Hyperconverged Infrastructure
The below is an excerpt from our exclusive report, “Virtualization Made Simple with Hyperconverged Infrastructure“. This paper is sent immediately to anyone that registers for our live or on-demand webinar that will cover how organizations with limited IT personnel can…
Tagged with: Architecture, Convergence, Data Protection, Hyperconvergence, Infrastructure, Integration, ROI, Scale Computing, Virtualization
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How to lower Storage TCO through Object Storage
Networked Attached Storage is broken. Business data is increasing at an alarming pace but traditional “scale-up” NAS architectures can’t scale to meet this demand. As a result, organizations are often forced into time consuming and expensive fork-lift upgrades. To learn…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Object, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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End-Users Are Cautious About Next Gen Storage Adoption
One of the announcements made at the Next Generation Storage Summit was the formulation of a consortium of vendors called the Object Storage Alliance Group. The stated mission of this group is to “promote the business value of object addressable…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Disk array, Integration, Next Generation Storage Summit, Object Storage, Object Storage Alliance Group, Scale-Out, Unstructured data
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