The data center infrastructure is evolving. At the core is the Fibre Channel SAN, which is itself evolving gain speed and capabilities like 16Gbps bandwidth. Then there is the move toward next generation applications that often count on IP-based storage.…
The challenge when selecting a flash array is, do you go with performance in the form of all-flash or do you go with capacity in the form of a hybrid array? To overcome these challenges vendors are coming to market…
Flash is the cure for almost all storage performance problems and can make a difference a variety of workloads. Tier 1 OLTP applications are an obvious use case for flash as is Tier 2 VMware environments and even Tier 3…
Workload Mobility is a hot subject at VMworld 2015. The ability to move a virtual machine from a VMware environment to Hyper-V, Amazon AWS or a Cloud Service Provider enables businesses of all sizes to cut the cost and complexity…
At VMworld we hear a lot about container technology like Docker. It is becoming clear that as containers become adopted by the data center the storage infrastructure will need to support both operating environments. In this ChalkTalk video, George Crump,…
One of the key challenges facing administrators is how to deal with storage sprawl, especially in the VMware era. Virtualization of servers and desktops has led to IT administrators being forced to throw hardware at the problem. It is not…
IT professionals have more choices than ever to sort through as they try to make a storage decision. From a hardware perspective should they continue to use hard disks or should they start to move toward an all-flash data center?…
As IT professionals begin to refresh or upgrade their storage infrastructure, they are faced with a new set of choices during that process. Do they stick with full featured arrays or do they begin investing in software-defined storage? Join Storage…
Software Defined Storage (SDS) has fundamentally changed the data center and holds great promise as organizations try to meet the performance demands of applications and users while driving down storage management costs. But the current generation of SDS needs to…
Join Storage Switzerland Founder, George Crump, and CTERA’s VP of Marketing Jeff Denworth, in this ChalkTalk video as they discuss how IT can leverage a data services platform to address the needs of the company, moving beyond file sync and…
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