From high density virtualization to software-defined infrastructures, changes in technology are coming fast. And keeping up with these changes is pushing IT staffs in the real world data center to the breaking point. This means detailed storage design and planning…
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Dot Hill Delivers Storage for the Real World Data Center
Tagged with: Dot Hill, Fibre Channel, Hardware, ISCSI, SNW Europe, Storage, Virtualization
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Neos Ventures Helps Enterprises To The Cloud
You can’t get enough good help these days; particularly when it comes to deploying and managing virtualized cloud infrastructure. IT global solutions provider, Neos Ventures, is positioning themselves as a leading player in the burgeoning cloud infrastructure services market to…
Tagged with: Business, Cloud, IBM, Neos Ventures, SNW Europe, Software as a service, VMware
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Nirvanix Shutdown, Good News For Cloud Storage
October 2013 will be remembered for the abrupt shutdown of the Nirvanix Cloud. While this may seem like bad news for the cloud market, it actually may be one of the best things to happen to cloud storage. Cloud storage…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, Data set, Disaster recovery, Hybrid Cloud Storage, Nirvanix, Remote backup service
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Breaking Away From The Hybrid Storage Pack
Nimble Leverages Cisco UCS Partnership To Differentiate Itself Nimble was one of the first hybrid storage appliances on the market (hard disk capacity and SSDs in the same purpose built chassis) and they’ve shown impressive growth since their inception. Currently…
Tagged with: Hybrid, Hybrid array, Initial public offering, Microsoft, Nimble, SNW, Solid-state drive, VirtualBox, VMware View
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Climbing the Cloud Wall of Worry
The recent Nirvanix shutdown has prompted many organizations to reassess their public cloud deployment strategy.If a well funded cloud service provider (CSP) with major OEM relationships wasn’t able to survive, what does that portend for other players in the industry?…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Data center, Data security, Hybrid Cloud Storage, Nirvanix, Western Digital
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SNIA Addressing Needs for Solid State Storage Education
At Storage Networking World (SNW) this year in Long Beach, CA, Storage Switzerland caught up with Storage Networking Industry Assn (SNIA) officers Wayne Adams and Molly Rector, to talk about what the organization has been doing recently and where things…
Tagged with: Hardware, IOPS, SNIA, SNW, solid state storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage Networking Industry Association, Storage Networking World
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Part II – Selecting The Right Storage Architecture Design
Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash When re-thinking the storage architecture in the data center, the choice typically comes down to a few factors. The first is how much budget is there available? You can only buy the performance you…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Hardware, Server, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage Resource Management
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Deep Storage Connects Long Term Data Storage to the Workflow
Deep Storage is a tape tier that’s been made accessible to applications and workflows without file system limitations or the complexity of archiving solutions. Using a REST-based interface called “Deep Simple Storage Services” (DS3) Deep Storage can be directly connected…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Disk storage, Flash memory, Linear Tape File System, Linear Tape-Open, SpectraLogic, storage efficiency
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Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash
One of the key discussion tracks at Powering The Cloud / SNW Europe is “Re-Thinking Your Data Center Architecture”. Storage is of course a part of the data center and its architecture also needs to be re-thought. There are two…
Tagged with: Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, PCI Express, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, VMware
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