During a recent Storage Switzerland webinar, we discussed the need for organizations to consider software based approaches to accelerating WAN performance. Interestingly, our polling question revealed that 31% of the webinar participants were trying to determine why there is even…
In our webinar, “Overcoming the RoadBlocks to the All-Flash Data Center”, one of the questions that came up is how to integrate an All-Flash Array into the data center. It’s not our position that you should throw out all your…
Object storage has been around for a number of years but is now getting more attention. This is due to a couple of factors: the amount of data, especially file data, is continuing to grow and the length of time…
What is protection storage? Is this merely a way to re-package the role of purpose-built data deduplication appliances or are there some unique attributes to protection storage that warrants closer scrutiny from technology decision makers? In short, protection storage drives…
Using flash based solid state disk drives (SSDs) installed in a server as cache is probably the most popular way for IT professionals to address performance problems. Most caching solutions are read-only caches, however, meaning that the other half of…
As a long time player in the market, Silver Peak is making it a lot easier, both financially and politically, for storage and virtual administrators to accelerate data replication performance. In the past, storage administrators used to have to get…
IT professionals wear many hats and are constantly responding to the emergency of the moment. When performance problems appear in the virtual environment the default reaction is to throw hardware at the problem. That means “throwing” premium priced flash SSD at it. But this approach can lead to buying too much or too little SSD, which either wastes money or doesn’t effectively solve the performance problem. In this article Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst George Crump, leads you through the process of qualifying your virtual environment’s SSD suitability.
Ever since NAND flash made the jump from consumer memory sticks to enterprise storage devices the idea of simply filling up a storage array with SSDs has been out there. It certainly makes sense from a logical perspective as server-side…
Storage Switzerland is in Las Vegas this weekend for the 13th Anniversary of Storage Visions 2014. The two-day conference smartly positioned right before the start of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Topics range from data protection and drive recovery to…
One of the top read articles on StorageSwiss is, “What is a Storage Controller?“. As we discussed in that article, a storage controller is the compute power in a storage system and is responsible for delivering basic functions like concatenating disks into volumes, RAID data protection…
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