– and why all organizations should want one Watch the Webinar on Demand: “Storage Requirements for the Next Generation Data Center” Cloud providers face some significant challenges, especially with storage. Many run very dense VM-to-host ratios that create highly random…
First there was server sprawl, then there was storage sprawl and now it’s “performance sprawl”. Performance sprawl occurs when there are multiple pools of flash storage spread out across the data center. For example, many organizations have flash resources inside…
Protecting sensitive corporate information has become increasingly challenging in today’s mobile world. Many business end-users in the field and in remote offices are doing an “IT end-around” by storing their files on consumer grade file sync and share services in…
As I discussed at a recent event and covered in one of our top-read articles, “How Will Storage Controller Technology Evolve in 2014?“, this may be a year of significant change in the way we architect storage. There are three…
SNIA’s DSI Conference can help with all the hats you wear Things really changed after the financial downturn a few years ago. First, IT staffs got thinner at the height (depths) of the recession and people had to pick up…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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