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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The future of the Storage business
Tagged with: Analytics, Big data, Data Collection, Hitachi Data Systems, Infrastructure, 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…
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…
Tagged with: Backup, Drobo, HDD, Hybrid, Recovery in Place, SSD, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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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…
Tagged with: HDD, High Availability, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtual, Virtual machine
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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…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Buy-out, Flash, Fusion-io, OEM, SanDisk, Shared Storage, SSD
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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…
Tagged with: Capacity, Cloudian, Hybrid Cloud, Integration, Next Generation, Object Storage, performance, Scale, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
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Leveling the Cloud Backup playing field
How can regional Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) more effectively compete with behemoths like Amazon, Google and Microsoft? Cloud backup software manufacturer Asigra is taking a two-pronged approach, which they claim will help level the playing field for these small to…
Tagged with: Asigra, Baas, Backup, Backup as a Service, Cloud, Cloud Service Providers, Data Protection, disk backup
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Google-Like Storage on a budget
It wasn’t that long ago that most IT professionals would have considered 1 PB of data a gargantuan amount of information. Now, many data center environments are supporting large unstructured data repositories that are well in excess of this heady…
Designing cost effective Storage Systems for Hyper-V
In a competition that many had pronounced over, Microsoft’s Hyper-V is now a viable candidate in the SMB, the remote office and even the enterprise data center. It brings the key virtualization features that most data centers need while being…
The Internet of things that matter
At the Hitachi Data Systems analysts meeting in Colorado, the company discussed some important changes in the organization and an interesting initiative they’re calling “Social Innovation”. It’s a unique approach to what’s essentially a big data problem (and opportunity). This…
