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The ROI of old servers with new connectivity

The storage network is falling behind and is becoming a key roadblock to major data center initiatives like improving virtualization return on investment (ROI), tapping into the power of analytics and enabling personalized online customer experiences. As these and other

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EMC acquires TwinStrata – innovation through acquisition

During EMC World this past May, EMC CEO Joe Tucci stated that EMC’s dual innovation strategy will consist of dedicating 10% of their annual revenues towards R&D and acquisitions. True to his word, EMC announced today that they have acquired

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Why is VM Density so low?

In our recent webinar “Max VM Density Requires Optimal Storage Networking & Operational Transparency” respondents to one of the polling questions indicated that over 40% of the time their servers were supporting less than a dozen virtual machines (VMs). This

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Data Protection – from mainframe to Cloud

Mainframes, open systems and virtualized, cloud computing infrastructure all have one thing in common – the need for reliable and efficient means to protect data. As IT infrastructure technology continues to evolve, businesses need a way to continue protecting legacy

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The future of the Storage business

HDS Analyst Summit 2014 One of the topics at Hitachi Data Systems’ analyst summit in Colorado recently was the future of storage. The company was asked by several participants what their strategy was to deal with the ‘commoditization’ of storage

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Cloud NAS Storage efficiency

How can organizations improve the performance of their existing NAS assets 50x without doing a massive forklift upgrade? The answer could be integrating a Cloud NAS system. As the name implies, a Cloud NAS leverages ubiquitous, low-cost cloud storage, to

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Virtualized Hybrid Disk Backup for Veeam

Disk based backup has become a staple in many data center environments. But now thanks to advanced recovery capabilities from virtualized backup applications like Veeam, Unitrend’s PHD Virtual and Dell’s vRanger, more is being asked of disk backup systems. For

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Hyper-V Software-Defined Storage

During a recent Storage Switzerland webinar, the audience was asked what their plans were for implementing Hyper-V into their environment. 50% of the respondents stated that they plan to exclusively  deploy Hyper-V into their data center while another 25% responded

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A new kind of company – SanDisk and Fusion-io

The news this week that SanDisk is buying Fusion-io for over $1 Billion dollars is something to pay attention to. If the acquisition goes through, SanDisk becomes a formidable competitor to a wide variety of companies in the storage and

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Next Generation Storage needs integration, scale and performance

Various industry sources estimate that data is doubling approximately every two years and the largest subset of that growth is coming from unstructured data. User files, images, rich multimedia, machine sensor data and anything that lives outside of a database

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