The allure of the public cloud may be wearing off. The theoretical consistent cost of the cloud has proven to be false. CIOs constantly complain about the surprise bill from their cloud provider at the end of the quarter. The…
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ChalkTalk Video: Overcoming the Cloud Privatization Problem
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ChalkTalk Video: Object Storage Goes All-Flash
Object Storage meets flash in our latest ChalkTalk Video with my colleague George Crump and Par Botes, the VP of FlashBlade Products from Pure Storage. The primary question they discuss is why one would want to use flash for object…
Video: Using DR to Move to The Cloud and Adopt New Technology
The cloud seems to be the ultimate destination for today’s data center. It can be used to support peaking workloads and for disaster recovery. The challenge is how to get data to the cloud so it can be leveraged for…
StorageSwiss at VMworld 2016
StorageSwiss is once again at VMworld with a whole new round of ChalkTalk Videos from some of the leading storage and infrastructure suppliers. Join George Crump and Curtis Preston throughout the week and they bring you technical ChalkTalks with the…
ChalkTalk Video: Object Storage Needs Flash Too!
Object storage is known by many for its ability to drive down the cost to store data through the use of commodity servers and high capacity hard drives. But object storage systems need flash and object storage system designers need…
The VMware Migration at Scale Problem
Both VMware and Hyper-V have built-in migration tools to help you migrate from one data center to another, and from one converged platform to another. But each of these tools encounters limitations when used on a large scale. In this…
ChalkTalk Video: Migrating From VMware to The Google Compute Platform
At the top of most IT project whiteboards is “cloud”. Whether cloud compute or cloud storage, organizations are trying to figuring out how to move their applications or data to these no CapEx environments. One of the most popular is…
Flash Memory Summit Video – What is NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics with Mangstor
The SATA and SAS protocols were designed in an era where hard disk drives were the dominate technology that data was stored on. Now we live in an era of flash storage and soon non-volatile RAM storage. We need a…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Overcoming Flash Confusion
At the Flash Memory Summit IT professionals have no shortage of options when it comes to implementing flash. There are all-flash arrays, hybrid arrays, server side flash, and memory. The challenge is understanding which type of flash should be used…
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Flash Memory Summit Video – Not All Flash Has To Be A Drive
When IT professionals think of flash storage they often think of something that looks like a hard drive but inside has flash modules instead of platters. The reality is flash can come in a variety of form factors and is…
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