Los Angeles – Storage Switzerland is at the Next Generation Storage Summit and today the focus is on solid state storage. The first part of the day was focused on the state of the storage industry, started by a presentation…
Blog Archives
Object Storage is Confusing but its Benefits are Clear
Object Storage is attracting more vendors as the technology moves ‘out of the clouds’ and closer to what could be called “mainstream” IT, at least that seems to be the objective based on the discussions at this year’s NextGen Object…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, NAS, NGOSS, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Do SMB Data Centers Need Object Storage?
Los Angeles – Storage Switzerland is at the Next Generation Storage Summit (NGSS) this week and yesterday we wrapped up our focus on Object Storage. One of the questions coming out of the summit is how do you know if your…
2014 Next Generation Storage Summit Kicks Off with Object Focus
Los Angeles – Storage Switzerland and a host of other industry influencers are spending the next day or so at the Next Generation Object Storage Summit (NGOSS). As is usually the case at these events, we opened with the ongoing…
Don’t Let File Sync and Share Sink Your Business
Data “leakage” is becoming an increasing problem for businesses today given the widespread use of consumer grade file sync and share services. To maximize their productivity, many users will sync their file data across their laptop, tablet, smartphone and home…
IT Professionals Need A Vendor Neutral Storage Conference
Over the past few years, the large storage vendors like EMC, HP and Oracle have been successful in creating their own well attended events. While these events are valuable, the storage industry and storage IT professionals still need a vendor…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, DSI, performance, SNIA, Software Defined Storage, Solid State, Storage Architecture
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Why Enterprises Need Hybrid Cloud Storage
Most industry sources estimate that approximately 90% of all new data growth in corporate data centers today is from unstructured data. In some environments this data is nearly doubling every two years, creating a serious scaling challenge for traditional storage…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Service Providers, Cloudian, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Object Storage, ROI, SaaS, Webinar
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
The Evolution Of Software Defined Storage
Most legacy storage systems consist of a storage device that has three basic parts: the shelves that hold the storage, the CPUs that provide the array with storage services and the network interfaces that allow the storage system to be…
Tagged with: Atlantis, Flash, HCS, HDD, Hyper Converged Storage, RAM, SDS, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Ignoring Dropbox – At Your Peril
The consumerization of IT is creating a dilemma for IT organizations. End users are demanding the ability to work from any location from any device globally and that is starting to put a lot of pressure on IT to keep…
Don’t Let Virtualization Break Your Backup Infrastructure
As a seasoned IT backup administrator recently said on a Storage Swiss webinar, “Avoid hearing the footsteps…”. This IT pro was referring to the unpleasant situation when folks from the C level suite start milling around outside your office waiting…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, disk backup, ExaGrid, GRID, Hybrid, Infrastructure, QOS, Virtualization
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
StorageSwiss.com - The Home of Storage Switzerland 