When founders of both Data Domain and VMware are introduced by Diane Greene to create a storage company, things are bound to be interesting. Typically, product briefings from Storage Switzerland do not start with the pedigree of those developing the…
Most organizations today have embraced virtualization technology because it significantly reduces the number of physical servers they need to maintain while providing the increased flexibility of an abstracted environment. While this consolidation of physical servers helps reduce data center costs,…
Spectra Logic is taking on Glacier (Amazon’s product for cold storage) in both senses of that term. Another way to say it is they are in “coopetitiion” with Glacier. First, BlackPearl is Spectra Logic’s object storage system that supports both…
Data Monetization is the art of extracting value from an organization’s existing data assets. For example, monetary value of data can come from creating a new video product from an old one, or can come from the analysis of years…
Flash-based storage systems continue to make inroads into the enterprise. Initially those inroads started as flash systems targeted at improving database response time. Then it spread to virtual workloads to alleviate the IO blender. Now, flash storage is on the…
It is no secret that one of the most difficult challenges with virtualization is managing the storage where VMs reside. The problem starts with the fact that VMware has historically known very little about the storage VMs are using. This…
Proper data management can indeed make data more mobile. Put another way, it can appear to make data more mobile by making it appear to be in multiple places at the same time without consuming capacity. One of the key…
Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems are primary storage systems, which are ideal for providing very fast access to “hot” (active) data sets that change frequently. Organizations have continuously added capacity to these systems to keep pace with the ever-rising tide…
NFS compatibility is considered table stakes for object storage products in today’s market. How and why did this happen? Network Attached Storage (NAS) and the NFS protocol have been and is the architecture of choice for unstructured data. Despite all…
The goal of any cloud initiative is to create a cost-effective, flexible environment. The architectures will typically store large data sets for long periods of times, so one of the challenges to being cost-effective is the physical cost of storage.…
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