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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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Identifying Tape As Production Workloads

Posted on November 6, 2013 by George Crump

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

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Colm Keegan

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?

Posted on November 1, 2013 by George Crump

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

Posted on October 30, 2013 by George Crump

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

Posted on October 29, 2013 by George Crump

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…

Tagged with: Emulex, Fibre Channel, Host adapter, InfiniBand, IOPS, ISCSI
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Can Deep Storage Help Cloud Providers Keep their Promise?

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Eric Slack

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

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Colm Keegan

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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Stopping Storage System Sprawl

Posted on October 24, 2013 by George Crump

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…