In a recent Storage Switzerland webinar, “Building A Hybrid Cloud Storage”, we polled the audience about why they were considering cloud storage. 60% of the respondents selected: “to lower costs”. This is not surprising given the fact that many of…
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Using Server-Side Caching As A Single Point of Performance Management
Register for Our Live webinar event “Stopping Storage Performance Sprawl” Deploying server-side cache is an effective way to accelerate application workloads; whether they are hosted on bare metal servers or virtualized infrastructure. But with so many flash and SSD options…
Bringing Storage, Cloud Computing and Virtualization Vendors Under One Tent
Why IT Needs A Vendor Neutral Technology Showcase Many of today’s IT industry trade shows are hosted by the big industry juggernauts. While many of these events have value, the fact is, you’re only playing in their “World”. In other…
What is the Right VDI Storage Solution? – IT should expect more
From a storage perspective, VDI is tough duty. The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure sees I/O patterns that are highly random and highly concentrated, which can bring a storage system to its knees. But there’s a risk here too, that infrastructure must…
What’s Holding Back the All-flash Data Center?
Flash has certainly become more affordable over the past several years and we continue to see more and more storage products introduced that include flash in one form or another. But most flash implementations are hybrid in nature, requiring that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Clones, Deduplication, Flash, Flash Controllers, Nimbus, Reliability, Snapshots, Thin provisioning
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Which Tech Event has Software Defined Storage, Virtualization, Flash, Big Data, Security and the Cloud?
Where do you go when you need to learn about a new technology such as software defined storage? How about Hyper-converged infrastructure? Or all-flash arrays? Where do you get information on a technology? One place to start is with the…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, ISCSI, SAS, Security, SNIA, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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Is 2014 Really the Year of the All-Flash Array?
Adding flash to disk array systems was inevitable, as spinning disk-based storage hit the performance wall and virtualization kept pushing the demand for more IOPS. These early systems were expensive, implementation was difficult and feature sets were extremely basic or…
How Available Is Your File Sync and Share Solution?
Users see file sync and share solutions as a requirement to get their job done. They want their data available on any device at any time and in any place. It is the “any device” part of this requirement that…
Is It Time To Retire File Server and NAS?
To get an advanced copy of our exclusive white paper “Are File Servers Holding Users Back?” watch the webinar “How To Increase User Productivity and Ensure Data Security” on demand and you can download the paper today. Is the File…
Storage QoS – A New Requirement for Shared Storage
In the virtualized data center shared storage is truly shared. Each attached server host may have dozens of virtual machines all accessing the same shared storage system at the same time. This creates a new requirement for shared storage systems,…
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