SNIA’s DSI Conference can help with all the hats you wear Things really changed after the financial downturn a few years ago. First, IT staffs got thinner at the height (depths) of the recession and people had to pick up…
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How do you cover Virtualization, Big Data, Cloud, Compliance and Software-defined Storage?
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Conference, DSI, Hybrid Cloud, SNIA, Software Defined Storage, solid state storage, Virtualization
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Bringing Storage, Cloud Computing and Virtualization Vendors Under One Tent
Why IT Needs A Vendor Neutral Technology Showcase Many of today’s IT industry trade shows are hosted by the big industry juggernauts. While many of these events have value, the fact is, you’re only playing in their “World”. In other…
Which Tech Event has Software Defined Storage, Virtualization, Flash, Big Data, Security and the Cloud?
Where do you go when you need to learn about a new technology such as software defined storage? How about Hyper-converged infrastructure? Or all-flash arrays? Where do you get information on a technology? One place to start is with the…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, ISCSI, SAS, Security, SNIA, Software Defined Storage, Virtualization
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Need Consulting? We can help. – Podcast
Who better to help you with your storage issues than to get input from the folks who you listen to here! Lead Analyst George Crump talks about the consulting service we provide at Storage Switzerland. Subscribe to our podcasts at…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Cache, Cloud, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Computer data storage, consulting, Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, Hardware, Object Storage, Solid-state drive, Storage Switzerland, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Object Storage is Confusing but its Benefits are Clear
Object Storage is attracting more vendors as the technology moves ‘out of the clouds’ and closer to what could be called “mainstream” IT, at least that seems to be the objective based on the discussions at this year’s NextGen Object…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, NAS, NGOSS, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Software Defined Storage
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IT Professionals Need A Vendor Neutral Storage Conference
Over the past few years, the large storage vendors like EMC, HP and Oracle have been successful in creating their own well attended events. While these events are valuable, the storage industry and storage IT professionals still need a vendor…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, DSI, performance, SNIA, Software Defined Storage, Solid State, Storage Architecture
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Why is Facebook Looking at BluRay?
Facebook recently put out a video showing their engineering manager with a new optical juke box Facebook has designed to hold BluRay DVDs that store “cold data”. According to the company, these are users’ oldest pictures and videos that are…
Where Object Storage is Used
In previous columns we’ve discussed what exactly object storage is (and is not) and what advantages this technology brings to the storage infrastructure. It’s more scalable than a NAS system, more economical than a traditional RAID-based storage array and able…
Unstructured Data Meets Tape Archiving Efficiency
Dealing With the Unstructured Data Deluge in Higher Education Colleges and Universities have many of the same issues with efficiently protecting critical data archives as private corporations but arguably, their challenges are even greater. While IT budgets have typically remained…
Sharable DAS and Cluster in a Box – Big Solutions for Small Companies
At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit last week in San Jose the CEO’s keynote began with a somewhat futuristic video showing several scenarios that could have been episodes of the current “Person of Interest” television show. People were connected to big…
Tagged with: Big data, DAS, High Availability, LSI, OpenVMS, SAN, Servers, Storage area network
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