Most IT professionals are fully aware that if they have a storage performance problem that a flash based storage system is the answer for them. Flash, to some extent, makes performance a commodity. Almost any flash system can deliver more…
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Video: Cabling Infrastructure – Critical for High Performance Flash Storage
Improving storage performance and response time is a high priority for IT professionals. To achieve this goal they are deploying all-flash arrays and upgrading network bandwidth. But cabling infrastructure is a part of the process IT often overlooks. Improperly designing…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Bandwidth, Cabling, Data Center Systems, Flash, Infrastructure, performance
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Conventional Storage QoS falls short on VMware and Virtualized Workloads
An increasing number of storage systems are coming to market with Quality of Service (QoS) functionality that allows an administrator to guarantee and in some cases, limit the amount of storage performance that a VMware or other virtualized workloads will…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, IOPS, LUN, performance, QOS, Shared Storage, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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What are IOPS and should you care?
When evaluating a new storage system, especially an all-flash array, the number of IOPS (Inputs/Outputs per Second) that the storage system can sustain is often used to differentiate one storage system from another. But is this really a standard that…
Analyst Blog: Why you DO need to Backup the SaaS Cloud
In my last column I discussed how cloud usage is approaching the ‘tipping point’, where companies will have to use the cloud in order to meet their expected infrastructure demands. Coupled with the price wars that are going on between…
Tagged with: Backup, Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Recovery, SaaS, Software as a service
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Cloud Backups – Purpose Built vs. Public Cloud
Leveraging the cloud as part of the data protection process is increasing in popularity, and with that popularity come a lot of options for IT planners to sift through. One area of consideration is the cloud destination. There is a…
Tagged with: Backup, Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Disaster Recovery as a Service, DRaaS, File Share, File Sync, Infrastructure, Purpose Built
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Storage Q&A: How to improve Bare Metal Server performance
When people have issues with performance on a server, the first thing they think about is adding flash to that server for tiering or caching. It’s a logical first step. For most companies these servers are hosting their VMware environment,…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Bare Metal, I/O, SAN, SanDisk, Virtualization, VM Density
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The New Normal: Software-Defined WAN Acceleration for a Cloud-Centric World
Wide area network (WAN) acceleration technology has been successfully used by many organizations for over a decade to accelerate data traffic between data centers and branch offices. Typically deployed as an appliance, WAN accelerators help to ensure the timely transmission…
Tagged with: Acceleration, Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Center Sprawl, Hypervisor, Silver Peak, Software Defined, Virtual machine, Virtualization, WAN
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