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Software Defined Hypervisors? HotLink Abstracts The Hypervisor

Last year the term, “software defined”, started to be used to describe how hypervisors like VMware, Hyper-V and KVM could be used to allow IT to virtualize their entire infrastructure via the software hypervisor. There is software defined networking, software…

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Cleversafe is An Established Supplier in the Re-emerging Object Storage Market

The explosion of unstructured data and the emergence of Big Data Archiving has created use cases where organizations have almost unlimited capacity requirements but still need good retrieval performance. Traditional NAS file storage can’t scale large enough and the deep…

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What Is Object Storage?

This past week Storage Switzerland and other industry influencers joined Cleversafe, Data Direct Networks, Intel, Nexsan, Quantum, and Scality at the Next Generation Object Storage Summit in Florida. The first order of business was to try to explain what Object…

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VMware Aware SSD Caching

While there are a number of software caching solutions each has potentially significant weaknesses. They are either owned by a hardware vendor, which can limit choice or they don’t fully support the hypervisor or guest OS that the customer is…

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IBM Solidifies SSD Strategy With Texas Memory Acquisition

In what could be one of the most important acquisitions of the year, IBM today announced plans to acquire Texas Memory Systems. While the details will be presented later on today, we think this is an excellent move on the…

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Why is Nimble Storage Growing?

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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