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Is Traditional Backup Obsolete?

Posted on December 3, 2013 by Eric Slack

As we will discuss in our upcoming webinar, creating a second copy in order to protect important data is becoming increasingly inefficient, a fact driven home by the relentless growth of ‘copy’ data in companies of all sizes. Setting up…

Sharable DAS and Cluster in a Box – Big Solutions for Small Companies

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Eric Slack

At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit last week in San Jose the CEO’s keynote began with a somewhat futuristic video showing several scenarios that could have been episodes of the current “Person of Interest” television show. People were connected to big…

Tagged with: Big data, DAS, High Availability, LSI, OpenVMS, SAN, Servers, Storage area network
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Innovation plus Longevity Wins in the Web-scale Market

Posted on November 26, 2013 by Eric Slack

At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit (AIS) this year, someone brought up a blog I’d written after a previous AIS event where an LSI executive said they had a RAID stack that was 25 years old. What popped into my mind…

Tagged with: Flash memory controller, LSI, PCI Express, RAID, SandForce, Serial ATA, Solid-state drive
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VMware Storage Problems Not Just Performance Related

Posted on November 25, 2013 by George Crump

A discussion about the storage infrastructure supporting virtual servers or virtual desktops almost always starts with a focus on performance. After all, solving the much talked about I/O Blender problem often takes center stage. But according to a poll conducted…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Information technology, Logical unit number, LUN, Tintri, Virtual machine, VMDK, VMware
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Is Legacy Storage Cannibalizing Your Virtualization ROI?

Posted on November 19, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Colm Keegan, Senior Analyst Server virtualization has delivered many benefits to the data center but one area that has become increasingly challenging is storage performance management. Legacy storage was designed to allocate disk resources from physical storage arrays to physical…

Tagged with: Storage Switzerland, Tintri, Virtual machine, Virtualization Aware, VMware
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Multi-Tenant Primary Cloud Storage For Legacy Applications

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

Maybe someday every application will run in a cloud-ready, NOSQL environment from the start. But for now there are millions of legacy applications that businesses would like to move to the cloud. The problem is that the basic storage services…

Tagged with: Amazon re:Invent, NAS, NetApp, Network-attached storage, SAN, Zadara
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HotLink Unifies VMware, Amazon Web Services and NetApp

Posted on November 14, 2013 by George Crump

Most data centers want to use cloud services like Amazon Web Services (AWS) to compliment, not replace their existing data center operations. This may be for augmenting a disaster recovery plan, bursting computation workloads into the cloud to cover peak…

Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon Web Services, AWS, NetApp, Virtual machine, VMware
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Overcoming the Storage Challenges of Non-Persistent Desktops

Posted on November 7, 2013 by Colm Keegan

For many organizations the benefits of virtualizing user desktop systems is hard to ignore – improved data protection, enhanced data security and the opportunity to drive improved resource and operational efficiencies. The challenge is unless the virtual desktop experience is…

Tagged with: Desktop virtualization, IOP, Liquidware Labs, Quality of service, VDI, Virtual desktop, VirtualBox, VMware
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