Catalogic ECX – Enterprise Catalog Management Software Industry pundits continue to chronicle how the deluge of unstructured data (user files, images, PDFs, email, etc.) is overwhelming many data center storage environments. While applying the right storage technology to shore-up data…
PCIe based flash solutions remain a popular method for accelerating application performance. However, there’s a tendency to treat all these cards the same, which would be a mistake since there are vast differences between these offerings that can lead to…
Flash-based data caching is a popular choice for cost effectively improving application performance in many different environments, but where that cache is located is a central part of any decision to use flash caching. Host-based caching (also called “server-side” caching)…
File synch and share solutions like Box and voice over IP (VoIP) and instant messaging (IM) technologies like Skype, have enjoyed widespread adoption industry wide. These products provide essential user collaboration tools for businesses of all sizes, however, PanTerra Networks…
Texas Memory Systems was a personal favorite of mine so I had concerns when IBM acquired them in August of 2012. With cautious optimism, I’ve been watching IBM to see what they did with their savvy investment. The first step…
At Storage Switzerland we have been covering the move to memory channel storage for the last six months. It is the next logical upgrade from drive-attached and PCIe-attached flash storage. By putting the flash directly on the memory bus traditional…
STORServer was one of the first companies to come out with a backup appliance for the mid-market over 10 years ago. Their product used IBM’s Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) as the backup software loaded onto server hardware with a tape…
We concluded our full day of briefings at EMC by meeting with the VMAX product team. The VMAX product family represents EMC’s top of the line, enterprise class storage solution. While there are some similarities between the midrange VNX and…
Over the past decade, EMC has made significant investments in the data protection space. Some examples include NetWorker, Avamar and Data Domain Purpose Built Backup Appliances. Each time one of these acquisitions were made, there were predictions about how the…
As we headed down the back stretch of our full day of EMC briefings, we sat down with the Avamar folks to discuss the latest developments on that front. As our readers know, EMC’s Data Protection and Availability division has…
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