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…
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Don’t Let Virtualization Break Your Backup Infrastructure
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, disk backup, ExaGrid, GRID, Hybrid, Infrastructure, QOS, Virtualization
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Sustainable Data Center Storage Savings
One of the seemingly endless tasks of today’s IT infrastructure planner is finding more ways to squeeze costs out of the data center environment. With data growth soaring across all industries, it is not surprising that storage is often at…
IBM’s Storage Business Is Not Doomed
The news a couple of weeks ago that IBM had sold its server business to Lenovo set off a flurry of speculation about what IBM would do with the rest of its hardware offerings. While no one outside of IBM…
Tagged with: Commoditization, Flash, IBM, Memory, Non-volatile memory, Software Defined Storage
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Is 10GbE Fast Enough For Flash Storage?
In a recent Storage Switzerland report (commissioned by Brocade and now available for download), we point out that there is a gap between high performance compute and high performance storage — the storage network. Workloads like server and desktop virtualization,…
Tagged with: Brocade, FCoE, Fibre Channel, Flash, Gen 5, performance, Spanning Tree Protocol, Virtualization
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Storage Sprawl – How Flash Let Us Down
As we discussed in our last column “Why Is Storage Hardware Sprawl Worse Than Ever?”, toward the end of the last decade (2007-2010) the data center began to tap into the abundance of compute power available to it but providing…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Coho Data, Flash, Software Defined, Sprawl, SSD, Virtual
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Why Is Storage Hardware Sprawl Worse Than Ever?
Once thought eliminated through storage networking via storage consolidation, storage hardware sprawl is worse than ever. As we discussed in our webinar, “How To Stop Storage Hardware Sprawl“, there are several reasons for this. First, there are more workload types…
Tagged with: Coho Data, Flash, Hybrid, Sprawl, Storage Hardware, Virtualization, Webinar
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Which Is The Right Way To Implement Flash Storage?
During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, we polled our audience about how they were currently using caching technology in their environment. A significant percentage of respondents replied that they were using caching directly on their server infrastructure. This is not…
Where Object Storage is Used
In previous columns we’ve discussed what exactly object storage is (and is not) and what advantages this technology brings to the storage infrastructure. It’s more scalable than a NAS system, more economical than a traditional RAID-based storage array and able…
Are You Designing Backup for the Future or the Past?
Will your backup infrastructure look the same today as it will next year or the year after that? Or are you anticipating that due to the pressures brought on by growing virtualized server environments and its associated data growth, that…
Virtualized Cloud Acceleration
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…
Tagged with: Accelerator, Cloud, QOS, RPO, RTO, Silver Peak, Software Defined, Virtual, WAN, Webinar
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