Out first meeting of the 2012 ExecEvent in San Jose, California this week was with Nimble Storage who gave us an update on their progress as well as a roadmap of where their product is going. The company is currently…
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SSD’s Role In The Storage Ecosystem
In a few weeks I will be hosting a panel discussion at the ExecEvent in Palo Alto, CA on SSD’s Role in the storage ecosystem. The role of SSD depends on the use case. In performance demanding environments and large…
IBM Storage Makes Its SSD Case
At IBM Edge 2012 IBM made its case for having a better end-to-end solid state disk (SSD) strategy over its competitors. For the major suppliers (IBM, EMC, HP, Dell) there are several key locations where they need to be executing…
Falling Backward – Disaster Recovery Plans have to Include Fail Back
When creating or testing a disaster recovery (DR) plan most IT professionals tend to focus on getting the data out of the building and safely stored in a remote location. Much of the success or failure of a DR plan…
Integrating PCIe SSD Into The Storage System
The NexGen storage system is designed from the ground up to take advantage of solid state storage and is the first system that we know of that integrates storage tiering from the first release. It is also the first storage…
The Downsides to Array Based Data Replication
Array based replication is the ability to have data automatically copied to a remote site creating the foundation of a solid disaster recovery strategy and as a result many storage arrays have a replication option. In fact many vendors provide…
High Performance Storage For The Mid-Range
Mid-range data centers have many of the same performance challenges that large enterprises do. As these organizations grow they are virtualizing servers, becoming more reliant on high transaction databases and can have Exchange or Sharepoint performance issues. The problem is…
Tagged with: CASL, ExecEvent, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Hardware, Nimble, Storage, Technology
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The ExecEvent Goes Cloud and Virtual
Storage Switzerland will be attending the ExecEvent’s Cloud and Virtualization focused event in Santa Clara this week. Personally this is one of my favorite events. My hat is off to its organizer Greg Duplessie and his team. The ExecEvent is…
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Nimble Storage Briefing Note
Nimble Storage is a convergence device of a different sort. Instead of focusing on unifying primary storage protocols, they are unifying primary storage, backups and disaster recovery into a single device. The goal is essentially to allow storage managers to…
Tagged with: Backup, CASL, Data corruption, ExecEvent, Flash memory, Nimble, Nimble Storage, RAID, Solid-state drive
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