When a data center considers an all-flash array, it is generally in response to a storage performance demand for a specific application. In other words, it is a point solution to an immediate and pressing problem. For this particular situation,…
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Kaminario Delivers Scale Right – All Flash Array
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Kaminario, performance, Scale Right
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Clustered HA Storage for the masses
Many organizations rely on large databases, such as SQL Server, SAP, and Oracle, to run their most mission critical business applications. But the cost of implementing application high availability (HA) and continuous data protection through a clustered storage infrastructure in…
Tagged with: Cluster, High Availability, SAN, SANLess, Shared Storage, SIOS, SQL
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Breaking The NetApp Upgrade Cycle
The amount of data not in databases, like images, video and office productivity files are consuming increasing amounts of storage capacity and the quantity of these files is also increasing exponentially. As a result, enterprises are struggling to keep up…
LSI Nytro MegaRAID 8140-8e8i
LSI has recently released the Nytro MegaRAID (NMR) 8140-8e8i, the latest generation of the company’s PCIe flash acceleration cards for direct-attached storage (DAS). Like the previous NMR versions, this product integrates PCIe flash, caching software and LSI’s MegaRAID technology into…
CA Tackles The Backup Beast With arcserve UDP
Arcserve is the elder statesman of network based backups and has been used for decades to protect a variety of operating systems and storage systems. To call this latest release an “upgrade” is almost a disservice. Arcserve UDP (unified data…
Tagged with: Backup, CA, Data Protection, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLA, SLO
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OCZ Z-Drive 4500 Enterprise PCIe SSD
OCZ recently released the latest generation of their Z-Drive PCIe flash SSD. This product builds on the Z-Drive R4’s performance and virtualization technology by adding new form factors and improving drive management. OCZ has also improved drive robustness and stability…
Can Evault Make Storage-as-a-Service Work?
We’ve all heard many times how data is growing, especially unstructured data, and how companies are faced with huge piles of files they may never need but can’t delete – legally or simply because the data owners won’t make those…
Customizing the File Sync and Share Experience
The use of file sync and share services has grown like wild fire amongst end users, but many folks in IT are adopting a laissez faire attitude about it. After all, IT managers have more pressing issues to deal with,…
The Evolution of Cloud File Sharing Services
It seems that every week we hear about another company offering a cloud-based file sync and share product for businesses, SMBs, consumers, pro-sumers, anyone – and everyone. Even a battery company recently announced it was getting into this business. One…
A Virtualization Backup Alternative – Nakivo Backup and Replication 3.9
When it comes to virtualization specific backup applications, many IT professionals only think of one name, Veeam. But there are several alternatives that those professionals should consider. One of those alternatives, Nakivo, just made its case stronger with the recent…
Tagged with: Backup, Compression, CSP, Deduplication, MSP, Multi-Tenant, Nakivo, Replication, Virtualization
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