Improving storage performance and response time is a high priority for IT professionals. To achieve this goal they are deploying all-flash arrays and upgrading network bandwidth. But cabling infrastructure is a part of the process IT often overlooks. Improperly designing…
You can call this edition of Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCEO Storage Switzerland’s MeetTheCTO when we talk to the Chief Technical Officer for Vision Solutions Alan Arnold. As Executive Vice President and CTO, Arnold is responsible for the company’s global technology, services…
Containers do more than store big stuff on ships or trains. Dockers are more than a pair of pants. Both are new cutting edge technologies of that are modernizing data centers. But Docker Containers create a storage challenge. In our…
George Crump of Storage Switzerland, and Fred Oh from Hitachi Data Systems explain how to reduce time and avoid complexity of do-it-yourself analytics projects with the Hitachi Hyper Scale-Out Platform (HSP). Purpose-built by HDS for fast-growing data analytics workloads, HSP…
George Crump of Storage Switzerland, and Fred Oh from Hitachi Data Systems explain the term “Data Lake”, and what it means for today’s analytics tools such as Pentaho, Hadoop, and Cassandra. The discussion includes real-world use cases, and also demonstrates…
Delivering Real-time Application Performance Without Breaking the Bank Traditional flash storage provided a much-needed performance boost to legacy applications. There is a new breed of real-time applications however that are demanding even lower latencies and higher throughput. Delivering a real-time…
A Data Lake is a global repository. It collects data from a lot of sources, like sensors or the Internet of Things. A second generation Data Lake needs to evolve to get the data kept in the “lake” out to…
The modern storage infrastructure presents IT professionals with a myriad of challenges. Three challenges however top the list: reducing costs, creating flexibility and delivering storage as a service (SaaS). Software solutions like EMC’s ViPR provide IT professionals with the ability…
IT professionals are being flooded with infrastructure options to solve their business continuity challenges. Do they continue to leverage on-premises equipment and the organization’s own disaster recovery facilities, or should they leverage one of the cloud options? Join Storage Switzerland…
Some vendors present Software Defined Storage (SDS) as a revolution in the storage infrastructure. Data Centers, especially those with an existing investment in storage systems, are looking for a more incremental journey that allows them to move to SDS, while…
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