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Object Storage Supercharges DMF Tiered File Architecture

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Eric Slack

For 21 years SGI has been virtualizing primary disk with tape using DMF, their storage tier virtualization software. This solution creates a seamless fabric across multiple tiers of storage, ranging from high-speed flash-based storage on the front end down through…

Tagged with: Big data, Disk, Object, Object Storage, Scality
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Sepaton v7.0 Product Analysis

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Enterprise data centers environments are continuously faced with ever growing volumes of backup data. Many organizations have embraced purposed built backup appliances (PBBAs) utilizing deduplication (dedupe) to help drive operational efficiencies and reduce reliance on tape as a primary backup…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Oracle, PBBA, Record linkage, Sepaton, Storage
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Multi-Hypervisor, Multi-Use Application Availability

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Colm Keegan

In an ever changing IT landscape, business owners and data center managers are finding it increasingly challenging to ensure that critical business information is not only adequately protected, but that the underlying system infrastructure is resilient enough to withstand outages…

Tagged with: Availability, Disaster recovery, Hyper-V, Multi-Hypervisor, Neverfail, RPO, RTO, Virtualization
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Is DR Assurance Missing from VMware Backup?

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Eric Slack

A lot has been going on with PHD Virtual, a company that, despite having dramatic success, may not be well known in the virtualization backup space. To begin with, they just announced their 12th consecutive record quarter and a 40%…

Tagged with: Amazon S3, Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual backup appliance, Virtual machine, VMware
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Solving the VDI Storage Contradiction

Posted on February 27, 2013 by George Crump

While 2013 may not be the “year” of desktop virtualization, it is certainly a year where interest is increasing rapidly and real-world production deployments are beginning to occur. A key part of the success of a VDI project is the…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Desktop virtualization, ILIO, VDI, Virtual desktop, VirtualBox, VMware
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Boosting Server Performance

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Colm Keegan

SSD Performance Accelerated A typical flash implementation constitutes less than 1% of the overall storage provisioned in a typical production environment. Consequently, systems planners have to exercise extreme prudence when deciding how to best utilize flash storage. They have to…

Tagged with: Dynamic random-access memory, Flash memory, Intel, IOPS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMware
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Dealing With The Copy Data Explosion

Posted on February 22, 2013 by Colm Keegan

For many years now, IT storage professionals have had to cope with the seemingly unfettered growth of data across the business environment. The lion’s share of data growth by far, however, is not caused by ordinary, day-to-day business activity, but…

Tagged with: Actifio, Copy Data, data Redundancy
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Avoiding Cache Rebuilds in VMware

Posted on February 11, 2013 by George Crump

Using a flash based solid state disk (SSD) or PCIe SSD inside a virtual host to act as a high speed local cache brings many performance benefits but it also brings some challenges. One of those challenges is what to…

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PHD Virtual Enables Low Cost, Multi-hypervisor Backups

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Eric Slack

Whether you’re just wrapping up your initial virtual server rollout or looking to shore up the data protection process, selecting the right backup solution for virtual environments can be a challenge. To address this, most IT managers have given up…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Hyper-V, Linux, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual, Virtual Technologies, VMware
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Cutting The Price On 1 Million IOPS

Posted on November 1, 2012 by George Crump

Marvell is a leader in the development of storage, communications and consumer silicon solutions, basically they provide vendors with key components so they can deliver complete solutions to end users. Recently Marvell announced the 88N9145 native PCIe SSD controller which…