The method that IT uses to protect applications is changing. Gone are the days of three or four mission critical applications. Today the backup team at most data centers needs to concern itself with protecting dozens if not hundreds of…
The method that IT uses to protect applications is changing. Gone are the days of three or four mission critical applications. Today the backup team at most data centers needs to concern itself with protecting dozens if not hundreds of…
Software Defined Storage (SDS) promises to free organizations from storage hardware lock-in, and to some degree that is true. The problem is SDS then locks the customer into the storage software. Moving from one SDS solution to another is a…
Consumption based IT is a curated set of IT solutions that focus on business outcomes. As the name implies it is purchased on a pay-as-you-go model. The goal of consumption based IT is to simplify establishing IT infrastructure that incorporates…
The flash optimized NVMe protocol has been on the market for over a year and the technology is available in several forms. NVMe, both storage and networking (NVMe over Fabrics) is more expensive than the typical SAS based solution and…
In our on demand webinar “Application Explosion – Rediscovering the Lost Art of Service Levels” we discuss how IT can successfully continue to set service levels in environments where the number of applications they need to support is growing every…
The number of applications in organization’s data centers is growing rapidly. No longer does IT need to worry about a few mission and business critical applications, it needs to worry about dozens. While all these applications are important to the…
For years, the storage industry has hailed the advent of the all-flash data center. With growing pressure from lines of business to obtain more sophisticated and real-time analytics for competitive advantage, with declining price points and increasing density of solid-state…