The value of converged infrastructures is they save time. It’s not that IT can’t assemble the components themselves. But considering how busy most IT professionals are today, should they? The value of the data center is not the components within…
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Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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Webinar: Optimizing Flash Storage for SQL Databases
Is your flash system up to the challenge? For many organizations, Microsoft SQL is the heartbeat of the business and IT professionals are under pressure to increase performance, reduce costs and improve protection. Storage vendors will point you toward flash.…
How Do You Protect An All-Flash Array?
Technically, an organization can protect a new all-flash array the same way it protects its current hard drive based array – use backup software to access the hypervisor, have it trigger a snapshot and then backup all the blocks that…
Has All-Flash Really Reached Price Parity on NAS?
Flash has reached the same price as disk! At least that is what all flash vendors want you to believe. But is it true? Has flash really reached price parity with disk? As is often the case it depends on…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, Capacity, Disk, file sync and share, Flash, NAS, Nexsan, Replication, Virtualization
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How To Survive 2017’s Flash Drought
“IT we have a problem, we are out of flash.” On several occasions flash NAND manufacturers are telling Storage Switzerland they are nearly sold-out of flash for the rest of the year. A lack of supply means flash storage prices…
What is Data Management Sprawl?
Data Management is the art of intelligently moving data to the tier of storage that best balances the performance requirements with the cost of storing it and stage of its life cycle. In a perfect world, organizations would put all…
Webinar: You Bought All-Flash, Now What?
Have you made the jump to all-flash storage? Are you planning to? If so this webinar is for you. We will look at what’s next after (or before) the jump to all-flash. An all-flash array brings many benefits to the…
What is an “Always-On” Data Center?
The always-on data center is a data center that can provide application availability to its users no matter what technical problems may occur. To meet this lofty expectation, IT professionals need to change the way they approach data protection and…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, dr, Flash, NetApp, performance, Replication, SLO, Veeam
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Powering Your Legacy Apps, Containers and HPC with One Data Fabric
In a recent article, Storage Switzerland introduced the concept of a data fabric. It is essentially a storage architecture that spans a variety of locations ranging from on-premises to the cloud. The goal is to create a data flow, where…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Container, Data Fabric, Elastifile, Hybrid, IOPS, NFS, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: Modern Storage Infrastructures for Modernized Data Centers
Organizations are modernizing their data centers by implementing technologies like OpenStack, Docker, Splunk, Spark and Hadoop. The “default” storage infrastructures for these technologies were originally designed to use direct attached hard disk drives to make access local and reduce costs.…
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