Briefing Note: Komprise Data Management Solution As anyone who has been in IT for a while knows, modern organizations are swamped by what has been called a “tsunami of data.” Various industry sources have indicated that data is more than…
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Reining in Runaway Data Sprawl
Tagged with: Cloud, IoT, Komprise, SaaS, Storage Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Evolving Data Protection to the Cloud
Briefing Note: Arcserve Cloud When it comes to data protection, it is very beneficial for a backup and recovery software company to have an in depth understanding of how data protection needs and challenges have developed over the years. Shortly…
Tagged with: Arcserve, Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, DRaaS, HA, RPS, SMB
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Briefing Note: Dell Introduces TLC–3D NAND All-Flash Array
An ongoing concern about flash storage is its endurance. In other words, IT professionals are concerned that these systems will wear out due to heavy write activity prior to being fully amortized. All-flash arrays may be an exception. These systems…
Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Dell, Flash, MLC, SLC, TLC
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Briefing Note: Solving the Inflexibility of All-Flash Arrays
Coho Data Announces All-Flash Nodes All-Flash Array’s (AFA) are a performance sledgehammer for IT Planners looking to address performance issues in their environments. These systems allow data centers to respond faster to the needs of the business and they allow…
Briefing Note: TrueNAS is FreeNAS for the Enterprise – iXsystems makes Open Source Data Center Ready
iXsystems has been a part of the FreeBSD community for years. It developed FreeNAS, one of the most popular open source Network Attached Storage (NAS) software solutions on the market. While FreeNAS can hold its own, feature wise, with almost…
Briefing Note: QLogic Powering End to End 16Gb FC
Storage, the Bump in the 16Gb Road 16 Gbps (Gen 5) Fibre Channel (FC) has been available for several years and it is an ideal network choice for storage systems that count on flash to meet the performance demands of…
Tagged with: 16Gb FC, Briefing Note, Fibre Channel, Gen 5, QLogic, Storage Network
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Briefing Note: Stopping Virtualization’s Double Tax
Virtualized Windows applications suffer from two I/O taxes. First, there is the tax of the I/O blender caused by mixing dozens of VMs on a single server, and then connecting multiple servers to a shared storage array that creates a…
Tagged with: Condusiv, DRAM, Flash, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, SAN, Virtualization, VM
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Briefing Note: Panzura SkyBridge solves VDI Storage Challenge
In a recent article, Storage Switzerland discussed the storage challenges associated with Desktop as a Service (DaaS) and Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). But instead of focusing on the typical performance challenges associated with VDI, like boot storms and data efficiency,…
Tagged with: Cloud, DaaS, GFS, Global File System, Latency, Panzura, Replication, VDI
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Briefing Note: Idealstor Enables the Hyper-Converged SMB
Small to medium sized business (SMB) are a great target for hyper-converged architectures because SMBs don’t typically have the application requirements that would justify dedicated compute and storage hardware. The problem is that many hyper-converged architectures (HCAs) are too expensive…
Tagged with: Flash, HCA, Hyper-converged, Idealstor, NAS, SAN, SMB, SSD, Virtualization
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Cohesity – Stopping Secondary Storage Sprawl
Data continues to grow and the number of storage systems required to support this growth is growing right along with it. Nowhere is the growth of data worse than in secondary storage, in fact some studies indicate secondary data set…
Tagged with: Big data, Cohesity, Data Protection, Data Sprawl, HDD, Metadata, SSD, VM
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