I recently attended the Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit in Houston featuring CIO and IT executives from around the world. At the summit the subject of using tape in production came up. While we spend most of the time using…
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Identifying Tape As Production Workloads
Tagged with: Backup, Fujifilm, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, Hard disk drive, Houston, IBM, Tape drive
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VM-Aware Storage Improves Virtualization ROI
Traditional storage was not designed to manage the high volume of I/O workloads characteristic of today’s multi-tenant VMware virtual machine (VM) environments. Consequently, many organizations fall into the trap of over provisioning storage infrastructure to help ensure good virtual application…
Tagged with: Hardware, OpenVMS, Quality of service, Tintri, Virtual machine, VM-Aware Storage, VMware
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Is It Time To Bring Tape Into Production?
Tape as a storage medium has fought off all attacks from disk-based backup and archive vendors and is enjoying a resurgence in the data center. In fact, Storage Switzerland recently polled about 70 large enterprise IT professionals and not one…
Tagged with: CrossRoads Systems, Hard disk drive, IBM, Linear Tape File System, SpectraLogic
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Flash Aware Fibre Channel
The key objective for organizations investing in flash is to make sure that they are getting the maximum performance out of their premium investment. This means making sure that the application and storage infrastructures are optimized for the near zero…
Tagged with: CrossLink, Data center, Emulex, Fibre Channel, Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, LUN, Storage area network
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The Fibre Channel Freight Train Keeps Rolling
Emulex Survey Shows Rapid Gen 5 Adoption When it comes to storage networking, iSCSI, NAS and even InfiniBand have all raised their hands as potential challengers to Fibre Channel (FC). It would seem, however, that the veteran of storage protocols…
Can Deep Storage Help Cloud Providers Keep their Promise?
Cloud file storage and cloud-based services have historically relied on an interesting strategy, sometimes called a “Free-mium” business model. They offer a free service, typically a stripped down version of their regular product, and encourage users to upgrade to the…
Tagged with: Amazon, Cloud, IBM, Linear Tape File System, Linear Tape-Open, LTFS, SoftLayer, SpectraLogic
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Copy Data in the Cloud
While industry pundits and analysts yammer on about the unrelenting growth of data, the real issue for enterprise data centers and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), is keeping a lid on the extensive number of redundant copies of information that propagate…
Tagged with: Actifio, Business, Cloud, Data management, HP-UX, IBM, SAP AG, SNW Europe, VMware
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Storage Management – It’s Back on the Shopping List
Storage management tools have sometimes been viewed as a “nice to have” tool by many IT infrastructure planners, however, given all the complexities with efficiently managing resources in today’s highly virtualized server environments, it is quickly turning into a must…
Stopping Storage System Sprawl
Unstructured data can come from a variety of sources including traditional office productivity files, rich media or data generated by sensors and cameras. It can also come from semi-structured environments like Exchange and SharePoint. Even though each of these examples…
Tagged with: Data Defined Storage, Data management, Microsoft SharePoint, Network-attached storage, SharePoint, SNW Europe, Tarmin, Unstructured data
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Predictable Virtual Server Performance for Less
For many storage planners it is a daunting task to size their virtual storage infrastructure “just right”, without needless overspending. Indeed, this is becoming increasingly difficult to attain given the high degree of I/O workload variability that multiple virtual machines…
Tagged with: Cloud, Quality of service, SNW Europe, Software Defined Storage, Storage virtualization, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine, VMware
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