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Performance, Interface Flexibility and Encryption in Mid-range Array

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Eric Slack

In a recent Storage Switzerland write up, “Is Real-time Tiering the Next Big Thing in Storage?”, we explored Dot Hill’s AssuredSAN Pro 5000 disk array systems and their interesting data tiering technology. Dot Hill is a disk array manufacturer that’s…

Tagged with: Big data, Disk array, Dot Hill, Fibre Channel, IOPS, ISCSI, SAS, Serial attached SCSI, Solid-state drive
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An Index into Unstructured NetApp Data

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Colm Keegan

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 is important, having visibility into those…

Tagged with: NetApp, SnapVault, Syncsort, Unstructured data, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware vSphere, vSphere
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Your Data, Anywhere – NAS for Amazon S3 and Glacier – Avere Announces Amazon Integrated Cloud NAS at re:Invent

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

One of the challenges facing IT planners is where to start with services like Amazon’s AWS. The logical first step is as a data repository to reduce the amount of on-premise data that needs to be stored and managed. The…

Tagged with: Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Avere, Cloud NAS, Cloud storage, Data center, Glacier, NAS, Object Storage
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CloudBeam Empowers Cloud Data Warehousing and Analytics – Attunity’s CloudBeam Briefing Note

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

Amazon S3 and Glacier can be used for a variety of use cases including disaster recovery copies, archive or content distribution. But what is most interesting is using Amazon Web Services like Redshift, to replace data warehouses with a more…

Tagged with: Amazon RDS, Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Attunity, CloudBeam, data warehouses, Redshift
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Global Data Access With A Global NAS – Panzura Amazon re:Invent Briefing Note

Posted on November 15, 2013 by George Crump

One of the challenges facing global companies is gaining access to the same data at the same time so that projects can be collaborated on in real-time. These organizations need local high performance access to data but need to make…

Tagged with: AEC, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Cloud storage, NAS, Network-attached storage, Panzura
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How SMBs can Meet Enterprise Performance Expectations

Posted on November 8, 2013 by Eric Slack

Small to medium sized businesses aren’t in the enterprise category but their users certainly have enterprise expectations. Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump calls it the “Facebook-ing of IT”, in reference to the always-on, always-available services that big cloud and social…

Tagged with: Disk array, Disk storage, Flash memory, Fusion-io, QOS, USB flash drive
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The Democratization of FCoE

Posted on November 5, 2013 by George Crump

Let’s face it, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has not been the roaring success that vendors hoped it would be. Why? Probably the number one reason is that it was too expensive. Users expected FCoE to be cheaper, much cheaper,…

Tagged with: Ethernet, FCoE, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Hardware, IBM, Intel, ISCSI, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage area network
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Software Defined Storage Meets Software Defined Networking

Posted on October 21, 2013 by George Crump

Coho Data Delivers Scalable Multi-Purpose Storage Platform One of the challenges facing data centers today is the diversity of the applications they have to support. They range from the virtualized infrastructure, with its highly random I/O pattern, to the transactional…

Tagged with: Coho Data, MicroArray, OpenFlow, PCI Express, SDN, Software Defined, Software Defined Storage
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EVault Expands Cloud Backup Appliances

Posted on October 18, 2013 by Eric Slack

EVault is a fifteen-year-old company with an extensive range of products, from backup software to complete backup solutions for on-site and cloud-based implementations. Several years ago, the company came out with a line of backup appliances that leveraged the company’s…