After a busy day of shooting ChalkTalk videos Storage Switzerland took to the streets of San Francisco to see what was going on after hours. Our first stop of the night was an event at the Thirsty Bear, hosted by…
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Hybrid Arrays in an All-Flash World
As the price of flash continues to come down, I am often asked by IT professionals what the role for hybrid arrays will be since all-flash arrays are beginning to reach price parity with high performance disk based systems. As…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Hybrid Storage, SSD, Tegile
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Performance Management is Broken
Performance management in today’s data center environment is broken. Between physical server silos, virtualized infrastructure, storage resources and networking devices, data center managers have to navigate through a plethora of management interfaces to diagnose application performance issues. The lack of…
Tagged with: performance, Software Defined, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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ChalkTalk Video – Why in-place upgrades are essential for Unstructured Data Storage
We’re seeing an enormous growth in unstructured data, especially files that are seldom used but must still be saved. The question is where to put them. An object-based architecture is a widely talked about option, but the question then becomes…
ChalkTalk Video – The Unique Hyper-V Storage Challenges
All virtualization environments place a strain on the storage infrastructure, making planning and design more critical than ever. But an advanced storage architecture drives up the cost of implementation. The relative cost of storage is a big concern in VMware…
ChalkTalk Video – Bridging the Gap between Consumer and Enterprise SSDs
The SAS/SATA SSD market has evolved into two main groups; drives built for enterprise storage systems and those designed for consumers’ PCs and laptops. But SSDs are also being put into servers for application acceleration and faster boot up, a…
ChalkTalk Video – The right way to the SMB Cloud
The storage cloud is very appealing to small companies for several reasons. It’s easy to get started – simply install a piece of software on the user’s computer and you’re ready to go – and thanks to the practice of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cache, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, Medium Size Business, Small Business, SMB, Western Digital
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ChalkTalk Video – How disk backup breaks Recovery in Place
Recovery in Place, offered by companies like Veeam, Dell’s AppAssure and PHD Virtual, is a powerful and valuable feature. It allows for virtual machines (VMs) to be recovered and executed directly from the backup device instead of having to transfer…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Drobo, Recovery in Place, SSD, Storage, Virtual machine
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ChalkTalk Video – The Veeam Backup Challenge
Veeam and other virtualization specific backup products have solved many of the data protection problems that slowed down initial server virtualization deployments. These solutions, and now even some traditional enterprise backup applications, offer the ability to cut the amount of…
Tagged with: Backup, Changed Block Tracking, Data Protection, Drobo, Recovery in Place, Veeam, Virtualization, Virtualized Backup
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ChalkTalk Video – How To Overcome The NetApp Capacity Gap
Join Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump and Crossroads Systems Executive Vice President of Strategy, David Cerf in this ChalkTalk video as they detail the problems with the growing NetApp Environment and how new solutions are coming to market that…
Tagged with: Archive, Capacity, ChalkTalk, Crossroads, NAS, NetApp, Unstructured data
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