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…
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The Storage Angle of Amazon re:Invent
Storage Switzerland is at re:Invent 2013, Amazon Web Services’ global customer and partner conference in Las Vegas. The completely sold out event features over 175 technical sessions, training bootcamps, hands-on labs, and a hackathon. Why is Storage Switzerland covering re:Invent?…
SoftNAS Cloud – NAS for Amazon Web Services
When an organization decides to move some or all of its applications out of its data center and into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), one of the key decisions is how they will store and access data. While Amazon’s Elastic…
Tagged with: Amazon Marketplace, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, IOPS, NAS
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HotLink Unifies VMware, Amazon Web Services and NetApp
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…
Overcoming the Storage Challenges of Non-Persistent Desktops
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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Identifying Tape As Production Workloads
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…
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…
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