In the wake of the Nirvanix Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, maintaining control over business data deployed in public cloud infrastructures is even more critical than ever. Solutions like cloud-to-cloud mirroring, for example, are likely to be the norm moving forward.…
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Cloud File Convenience with Local File Security
The benefits of universal access to needed documents and the ability to share these files is very appealing. People want the option to do work wherever they are, with whomever they want to, on whatever device is at hand. It’s…
Atlantis Raises the Software-defined Storage Bar
As Storage Switzerland covered in a recent briefing note “Solving the VDI Storage Contradiction“ Atlantis ILIO is a software solution that addresses the often conflicting requirements facing many companies with their VDI deployments: providing adequate performance for virtual desktops and…
Tagged with: Atlantis, Desktop virtualization, Hardware, SDS, Software Defined Storage, VMware, Xen
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Is Real-time Tiering the Next Big Thing in Storage?
Dot Hill is a storage array manufacturer that’s built a name for itself primarily in the OEM world. They’ve been manufacturing mid-range storage arrays for over 25 years, currently supporting HP, Lenovo, Stratus, Quantum and a number of other vendors,…
Bringing Flash Performance to Mainstream IT Environments
Virident’s FlashMax II PCIe solution has some of the best performance available in the industry and the company is enjoying big wins in what’s often called the “hyper-scale” market. These are large service providers, social media and web-based giants that…
Tagged with: FlashMax, PCI Express, Scalability, Solid-state drive, SQL, Virident
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
EMC’s Backup Journey to the Future
The recent EMC Backup Recovery Systems (BRS) product launch covered a dizzying array of interesting BRS product announcements. Amongst these announcements was the unveiling of the final phase of the total hardware and software integration of their market leading Avamar…
A Decade of Data Domain
A decade has passed since Data Domain began selling its first appliance and started evangelizing the virtues of data deduplication as an enabling technology to reduce the torrents of backup data in data center environments. The term “deduplication” was not…
Seamless Hyper-V or VMware To Amazon EC2
The pay as you go compute capacity of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can be leveraged by organizations of all sizes to dynamically respond to spikes in business. An ideal use case is to move less compute demanding workloads to…
Tagged with: Amazon, Cloud computing, HotLink, Microsoft, Servers, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Unstructured Data Storage For The Mid-Market
Unstructured data (data that’s outside of databases), is growing at an out-of-control pace in organizations of all sizes. Large cloud service providers and some larger enterprises have dealt with this challenge by embracing object storage. For smaller data centers and…
Tagged with: Data center, Exablox, Hardware, OneSystem, RAID, Storage, Unstructured data
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Posted in Briefing Note
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