All-Flash Arrays (AFA) have one stunning attribute. They are fast. In some cases, an AFA provides more performance than the typical data center needs. As a result, it seems that AFAs render traditional data management practices obsolete. AFAs are typically…
There are plenty of expectations for production storage systems. Users want it fast, managers want it cost effective, and executives want it secure. Additionally, the system has to protect data from hardware failure, software bugs, and user mistakes. Meeting all…
Secondary storage does more than just store backups. It also serves as storage for archive data, IoT data and support copy data use cases like test development and reporting. As a result, the infrastructure requirements for secondary data have grown…
Software Defined Storage (SDS) was supposed to revolutionize storage, freeing IT from the chains of vendor lock-in, allowing them to build more cost effective scalable architectures. The first generation of SDS solutions, for the most part emulated the dedicated storage…
The next step in all-flash performance is NVMe. Systems equipped with NVMe support promise to increase performance and lower latency. But, IT professionals want to know if their data centers can take advantage of NVMe and how they should plan…
The ROI of an archive project sounds good on paper. Implement archive, get near instant recalls of moved data, and reduce storage footprint by 85% or more. The problem is no archive implementation really does that. In our latest white…
Maintaining the right level of uptime for newly virtualized critical applications is a key requirement for virtualization administrators. In this higher stakes, virtualized world time tested techniques like establishing recovery point and recovery time objectives are as critical as ever. In this report Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst, George Crump helps you design a data protection strategy for VMs that are critical to the business.
High Performance Computing (HPC) environments have unique characteristics and some unique challenges that make them different from ‘traditional’ IT environments. HPC usually means big analytics projects that involve lots of data, high speed processing and frequently a compute infrastructure that’s…
Application performance is increasingly affected by the performance of the underlying storage, and storage performance is inextricably tied to latency. For this reason reducing latency and increasing its predictability has become the ‘holy grail’ of high-performance storage designs. And while…
An application owners’ primary concern is the performance of their application. While cost efficiencies and increased availability of virtualization intrigues them, they will not sacrifice a consistent application experience for their users. The key for Hyper-V and storage administrators is…
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