Big Data, the Internet of Things and a host of other challenges are facing companies today. But according to Mike Davis, Director of Marketing for Storage Solutions, when Dell and their partners meet with these companies they can’t just sell…
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Dell: “We can’t just deliver components”
Tagged with: Big data, Converged Infrastructure, Dell, Dell World, Flash, Hybrid, Internet of Things, NAS, Scale-Out, SMB, Storage
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vCloud Powered Data Protection-as-a-Service
Automated data protection is becoming increasingly important given the fact that multiple IT stakeholders are taking a more active role in protecting their critical data. Virtual server administrators, database administrators and other application owners are now involved in the data…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Data Protection-as-a-Service, DPaaS, EMC, RPO, RTO, Server Virtualization, VDC, Virtual, Virtualization
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A refresh needed for Disk Backup Appliances
Backup has seen a lot change over the years. Disk has became the primary backup target instead of tape because of its speed and simplicity. And when vendors added deduplication it became even more cost effective. More recently, we’ve seen…
Tagged with: Capacity, Deduplication, disk backup, NEC, PBBA, Purpose Built Backup Appliances
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Overcoming the challenges of Server Side Network Storage
Server side network storage (SSNS) is attracting the attention of many data center planners. It aggregates internal server storage and presents that storage as a sharable virtual volume. Virtual machines access this shared volume no matter what host they are…
Tagged with: Converged System, Data Protection, Gridstore, Infrastructure, Network Storage, RAID, Server-side, Shared Storage, SSNS, Virtual machine, VM
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Can NAS Scale to meet I/O demand?
Maximizing VM density is the goal as business grows and enterprise IT organizations scale their infrastructures to keep up – without breaking the bank. Dense VM environments are a more efficient use of IT resources, but they’re also more of…
Tagged with: Clone, Data Protection, Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scale, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
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A better Server-side Flash Solution for increased VM Density
Many of the IT professionals who came to VMworld this week are facing the same situations, they’re looking at flash to increase VM density and improve overall performance. One way is by putting that flash into the host server, particularly…
Backup or Replication?
Data protection can be challenging since virtualized applications typically have various recovery point and recovery time (RPO/RTO) objectives. Replication provides applications with near zero RPOs and when configured with redundant server infrastructure, it can also provide near instantaneous RTO. But…
Memory Bus Flash delivers vSAN Performance Acceleration
Software defined storage solutions like vSAN are gaining increased attention. But vSAN systems can only support one flash device. The challenge is one flash device may not be enough to handle all the I/O throughput from multiple applications. In this…
Tagged with: Architecture, CPU, Diablo, DIMM, Flash, MCS, Memory, Memory Bus Flash, Memory Channel Storage, Software Defined, VSAN
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The role of All-Flash for NoSQL Databases
Traditional databases, like Oracle and MS-SQL, have been around for decades. But thanks to the emerging mega trends of big data, big users and cloud computing, a new class of database is starting to work its way into the enterprise:…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Data Protection, Efficiency, NoSQL, performance, Pure
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Does Flash make everything in VMware Better?
Bacon makes everything taste better – at least for a lot of folks. At VMworld we met up with Micron, the flash manufacturers who are calling themselves “VMware’s bacon”. Their point is that flash makes everything in a virtual server…
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