Briefing Note: DataGravity Discovery Series V2 Data is an asset and for many organizations it is more valuable than the hardware on which it resides. Despite its value, few storage systems do anything to help IT professionals understand what is…
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Integrating Data Value into Primary Storage
Tagged with: DataGravity, Flash, Hard disk, Integration, Primary Storage, SSD
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The Cloud for Primary Storage – How to get it right
Briefing Note: ClearSky Comes Out of Stealth For many organizations, the thought of letting someone else manage their storage infrastructure is appealing. The cost and time required to acquire, maintain, manage and migrate storage is overwhelming and these organizations are…
Virtual Instruments Extends VirtualWisdom Capabilities with 4.3 Release
Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom 4.3 Briefing Note Today’s data center is dealing with tight budgets, demands for increased storage efficiency and of course higher application performance and availability. In the past, data centers addressed these competing interests by purchasing hardware designed…
Tagged with: Efficiency, Infrastructure, performance, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Addressing the Docker to Production Storage Challenge
Briefing Note: Hedvig Storage Driver for Flocker Delivers Persistent Storage for Docker Containers Docker is a container technology that virtualizes at a finer level of granularity than a virtual machine (VM). This finer granularity is more lightweight than a VM,…
Tagged with: Container, Hedvig, Integration, Shared Storage, Software Defined, VM
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Storage Infrastructure for a Data Center in Transition
Cisco July 2015 Briefing Note The enterprise data center is in transition, moving from a variety of scale-up applications and architectures to one where they scale-out. Scale-up designs are typically fibre channel based, where scale-out designs are usually IP based.…
Fixing the Hybrid Cloud
Briefing Note: Velostrata Many vendors and analysts have suggested that the hybrid cloud model is the best method for traditional data centers to adopt and leverage the cloud. But IT planners at traditional data centers remain unconvinced. There are simply…
Acronis: Extends Cloud Capabilities
Briefing Note: Acronis Releases New Cloud Solutions for Resellers Data Protection Is Not So Simple Anymore There was a time when protecting an organization’s data assets was a fairly straightforward and simple process. In those by-gone days, most organizations usually…
Tagged with: Acronis, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, file sync and share, Recovery, SMB, Unstructured data
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A Platform for Software Defined Storage
Flash Memory Summit Briefing: SavageIO’s Open Storage Platform Software Defined Storage (SDS) has a problem, it still requires hardware. This hardware requirement is a problem because most of the storage systems that a customer would purchase to go with their…
Tagged with: flash memory summit, HDD, PCIe, SAS, SavageIO, SDS, Software Defined Storage, SSD
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Software-Defined Flash
Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note: Radian Eliminates Flash Translation Layer for Improved Performance, Endurance, and Cost The first generation of flash storage devices addressed backward compatibility by treating the devices as if they were hard drives through the use of…
Tagged with: Cloning, Flash, flash memory summit, FTL, Latency, Radian Memory, Replication, Snapshot, Thin provisioning
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Flash as RAM not Storage
Briefing Note: Diablo Delivers Flash As Memory Since its introduction to the enterprise, flash has been viewed as an expensive but fast alternative to the hard disk drive, but not as inexpensive as RAM. Flash implementation options like PCIe SSDs…
Tagged with: Cloud, Diablo, DIMM, DRAM, Flash, flash memory summit, Hyper-scale, Memory
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