All-Flash Arrays are a performance sledgehammer, obliterating most performance problems and eliminating a great deal of storage management complexity. But, this sledgehammer is expensive and because of this All-Flash vendors are attempting to deliver a variety of solutions to drive…
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Do You Know The Truth About Your All-Flash Deduplication?
Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Data compression, Data deduplication, Deduplication, Flash Array
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Is Traditional Backup Obsolete?
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…
Tagged with: Backup, backup system, Data Protection, Data recovery, Incremental backup, Nimble Storage, Recovery point objective, Recovery Time Objective, Snapshots
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Sharable DAS and Cluster in a Box – Big Solutions for Small Companies
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
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
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?
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
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…
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…
