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StorageShort: Performance of a Cache Miss

Posted on December 17, 2014 by George Crump

One of the most common questions we get asked by customers considering a hybrid arrays is “What is my performance going to look like if there is a cache miss and data has to come from the hard drive tier”.…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Hybrid array, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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StorageShort: Primary Storage Hard Disk Arrays should be replaced now

Posted on November 11, 2014 by George Crump

We have advised IT professionals that all future primary storage purchases be either hybrid or all-flash arrays for several years now. The value derived from these solutions include increased virtual machine (desktop and server) density, applications that can support more…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Data efficiency, Deduplication, Return On Investment, ROI, Tegile, Thin provisioning, Virtual machine
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Storage Short: The problem with Mutual Mystification and Backups

Posted on October 30, 2014 by George Crump

While many webinars focus on a specific technology, few focus on the process. If the data protection process is broken, a new backup or replication app will at best just be a band-aid that is destined to break the next…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Eric Slack, HP, Recovery, Service Level Objective, Service-level agreement, SLO, Synnex
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Storage Short: How Dense can a VM Environment get?

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Crump

VM density is something companies are striving for as they work to lower the TCO of their virtualized environments. The question is, how dense can you get; how many VMs can your successfully run on each host? In this Storage…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Storage Short: How to support 15,000 VMs on a NAS

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Eric Slack

Running a high-density virtualization environment on a NAS box is something many companies assume won’t work. But we wanted to try. In this lab test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an 8-node Hitachi HNAS system reached over…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Storage Short: Deduplication is NOT a Checkbox item

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Eric Slack

Back in the early 2000s, when deduplication first came to market, it was a new concept and people had no problem asking a lot of questions about it. Fast forward 14 years – now deduplication is almost everywhere and we’re…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Deduplication, NEC, Recovery, Virtualization
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Storage Short: Why Private Cloud Storage is ready for Business

Posted on October 7, 2014 by George Crump

One of the simplest ways to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of storage is to make its entry point less expensive. Legacy storage systems are designed with custom hardware, custom silicon and sophisticated, often proprietary software. This can…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Protection, Integration, Private Cloud, TCO, Unstructured data
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