Database administrators (DBAs) spend a large portion of their day optimizing databases. Do all-flash arrays eliminate that need? While in most cases, the answer to any IT question is “it depends”, in this instance the answer is an emphatic NO!.…
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Does All-Flash Eliminate the need for Database Tuning?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Bottleneck, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, Optimization, SQL, Tegile
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Deep Dive XtremIO X2 – Dell EMC World 2017
The press releases are out there but they only cover the XtremIO announcement at a high level. It’s time for a deeper dive. At Dell EMC World, Storage Switzerland spent quality time on the XtremIO X2 update. It promises increased…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Dell, EMC, Flash, Latency, QOS, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, XtremIO
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Tintri Storage is DR Ready
In a recent article, my colleague George Crump discussed the need to simplify data protection (DP) and disaster recovery (DR) operations, with primary storage that is DR ready. DR ready primary storage would aid in DP and DR processes without…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, DP, dr, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, Replication, RPO, RTO, Scale-Out, Snapshot, Tintri, Virtualization
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ChalkTalk Video: What is Recovery Performance Expectation
Meeting the organization’s high recovery point and recovery time expectations is no longer enough. Now organizations are beginning to pay attention to the performance of an application in its recovered state. Backup and replication applications enable secondary storage or the…
StorageShort: Are You Ready for the New Recovery Time Objective?
As long as there has been applications, there have been applications that need zero, or near zero downtime. These are applications where the life of the organization, or even human lives, literally depend on its operation. There has also always…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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Should a Backup Appliance be Part of your Backup Refresh?
Backup needs a refresh to keep up with recovery demands of modern application and increasingly expectant users. They expect an “always-on data center.” IT professionals are already overwhelmed with day-to-day tasks. For many, an always-on strategy is a concept that…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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StorageShort: How is the App Explosion Impacting Backup Service Levels?
Most data centers are reporting a dramatic increase in the number of applications they have to deploy, support and protect. Driving this phenomenon is the improvements in developer tools that created the whole Dev/Ops movement. While most of these apps…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLO, Veeam
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How to Solve Storage Challenges in Software as a Service (SaaS) Data Centers – Kaminario Briefing Note
The software as a service (SaaS) market is projected to be a $117 billion dollar market by 2019. While most of these solutions incubate in the public cloud, successful SaaS providers reach a point where the disadvantages of renting the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Kaminario, Latency, NVMe, Replication, SaaS, Scale, Snapshots, SSD
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ChalkTalk Video: How To Overcome the All-Flash Let Down
All-flash arrays are the performance sledgehammer, often obliterating the storage performance problem organizations hoped to resolve when buying them. The challenge is as the organization adds additional workloads to the array, its low latency exposes other bottlenecks in the environment…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Data Protection, HPE, Latency, Recovery, Replication, Snapshot
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How to Avoid the Cost of Zero RPO and RTO
IT is under constant pressure to reduce recovery point (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). Users and applications owners want to set these objectives at zero. While a zero RPO/RTO is a possibility the cost to get there is enormous.…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Recovery in Place, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLO, Veeam
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