Organizations are being inundated with data for a variety of use cases like storing old data or rich media, enabling file sharing and synchronization and forming a data lake for analytics projects. They need to store all this data, ideally…
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ChalkTalk Video: Valets vs. Parking Lots – Explaining Object Storage
Object storage is ideal for storing unstructured data. Understanding why it is so good at object storage is the challenge. In this ChalkTalk video George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and Sanjay Patel, an Advisory Systems Engineer for EMC,…
Is Software Defined Storage for Real?
Everyone is talking about software defined storage (SDS). But can it honestly work for your data center? In this StorageSwiss interview we talk with Andrew Flint from ioFABRIC about the realities of software defined storage. He outlines how storage administrators…
ChalkTalk Video: Establishing Peace between DBAs and Storage Admins with Software Defined Storage
Storage Admins and Database Admins are often at odds with one another. DBAs want more performance, more availability and more capacity, often pushing the storage architecture to its limits. In this video, StorageSwiss and ioFABRIC depict the typical DBA /…
Tagged with: DBA, ioFABRIC, LUN, Next Generation Data Center, performance, QOS, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Vvols
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ChalkTalk Video: Is More Flash or Spindles the only Answer to the VMware I/O Blender?
The VMware I/O blender is caused by multiple virtual machines generating random I/O at the hypervisor layer that bottlenecks storage systems. Adding more flash or spindles seems like the quick fix to this problem. The noise at the I/O blender…
Tagged with: Condusiv, Flash, Hypervisor, I/O Blender, SAN, Virtualization, VM, VMworld
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ChalkTalk Video: Making 3D TLC NAND Ready for the Enterprise
3D TLC NAND promises to bring new levels of density to flash storage and with it new record low price points. The effective dollar per GB of a 3D TLC All-Flash Array could make hybrid arrays obsolete. The challenge is…
ChalkTalk Video: How to Create Highly Dense, Solid Performing Storage Infrastructures
When you are storing petabytes of information, saving pennies a gigabyte can make a big difference. Not only do pennies make a difference for cloud service providers, online application providers and managed service providers but so does density. The ability…
ChalkTalk Video: Web-Scale Storage Solutions for Mid-Tier Data Centers
Mid-market data centers face big challenges when dealing with secondary data like backups, archives and simply dealing with unstructured data. This data can amount to 80% or more of the total data center storage capacity footprint. Ideally these data centers…
ChalkTalk Video: Customer Case Study Using ECX to Manage Copy Data
File data can amount to 80% or more of the data that needs to be protected and managed. For Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia, it was a big problem. Stepphon Gayle, their Data Storage Manager, handles protecting more than…
ChalkTalk Video: Freeing your Data from Storage Prison
IT professionals have more choices than ever when it comes to deciding what to store their data on and where that storage should reside in the infrastructure. Flash storage choices include SLC, MLC, TLC/3D NAND and can reside in the…
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