The data center is a series of networks. There are networks that connect servers to users and networks that connect storage to servers. Even within servers and storage there are networks to connect CPU to IO devices like flash drives…
Blog Archives
New eBook: Taking The Load off Networks with Computational Storage
Tagged with: AI, Big data, Computational Storage, DRAM, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, ML, NGD Systems, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PCIe, SSD
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
The State of Server Virtualization: Summer 2019
The “software-defined data center” (SDDC) is hailed by many as the data center architecture of the future – promising to bring new levels of hardware utilization and a simplified, public cloud-like user experience on-premises. Previously, Storage Switzerland detailed the key…
Tagged with: Cloud, Container, DAS, Data Protection, HCI, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, QOS, SDDC, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Worried About Meeting Disaster Recovery SLAs? Consider These Capabilities
Data protection infrastructures face tremendous pressure. Copy data is growing even faster than production data as businesses create copies to support analytics, test and development, and other important initiatives. Copy data also needs to be retained for longer periods of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, CCPA, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, RPO, RTO, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Has NVMe Really Reached Price Parity with SAS?
Several NVMe flash vendors are claiming that NVMe Flash has reached price parity with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) based flash. The claim is true or pretty close to true in most situations. Vendors are selling their NVMe flash drives for…
What the Enterprise Needs in SaaS Data Protection
Secondary storage is quickly consuming the data center and becoming too complex to manage. The copy data stored on those secondary systems is distributed across multiple enterprise and cloud storage locations. The secondary data set is being used for a…
Tagged with: Actifio, Analytics, Cloud, Cyber Attack, DaaS, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, eDiscovery, Infrastructure, IoT, Migration, Ransomware, RPO, RTO, SaaS, SLA, Test/Dev
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
DriveScale Composable Infrastructure: Elastic and Efficient Resources for Modern Workloads
Modern workloads such as Hadoop, Kafka and machine learning are demanding in terms of the volume of data that must be processed, the speed at which that data much be processed, and the fact that their capacity and performance requirements…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hyperscale, JBOD, JBOF, Machine Learning, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAN
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Why Azure Stack HCI for Your Hybrid or Private Cloud
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) consolidates several data center components into a single architecture with the promise of simplifying management and enabling better scale to meet the demands of the organization. Of these components, two of the most important are the hypervisor…
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, PCIe, QOS, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
The State of the Software-Defined Data Center
The concept of the “software-defined data center” (SDDC) emerged around 2012, and since then the term has been adopted by nearly all vendors and heavily debated by analysts. While some argue that it is nothing more than a “marketecture,” and…
Tagged with: Cloud, Containers, CSP, Data Protection, Scale-Out, SDDC, SLA, Software Defined, TCO, Virtualization
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Converged Data Protection – The Components Matter
Converged or hyperconverged data protection typically delivers a solution to the customer as a single SKU, but that SKU is made up of several components. Each component within the converged architecture is critical to the overall success of the solution.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hyper-V, NFS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, StorageCraft, VMware
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Can the Cloud Cut Data Protection Costs?
Data protection, including backup and disaster recovery, has always been expensive and a hassle. In fact, it was so much of a hassle that some organizations did not protect their applications. This was because they considered that the cost and…
Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
StorageSwiss.com - The Home of Storage Switzerland 