It seems that some all-flash vendors are quick to write off hard disk drives (HDD) with some even pronouncing HDDs dead. But disks have a role to play in the data center and even for primary storage. HDDs still have…
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Why would you buy a Storage System without QoS?
QoS (Quality of Service) is a topic that’s becoming more common in storage discussions, partly due to the rise of multi-tenant environments like public clouds. QoS puts management controls on storage resources, especially processing power, so they can maintain performance…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Consolidation, Hybrid, QOS, Quality of service, Shared Storage, Sharing, Virtualization, VVOL
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Briefing Note: Hyper-Converged Cloud for Hyper-V
Hyper-convergence is the consolidation of the three traditional data center tiers (compute, networking and storage) into a single converged tier. The goal of hyper-convergence is to speed time to value, allowing new infrastructure to be deployed in a fraction of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Gridstore, Hyper-converged, QOS, Quality of service, Virtual machine, VM
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Briefing Note: Running VMware in Google/Amazon Clouds – Ravello Launches Inception Beta
There are two parts to any cloud strategy; compute and storage. As discuss in our white paper, “Reverse Your Cloud Strategy” (register below), a cloud storage strategy becomes increasingly hard to justify over time. Cloud compute though is almost an…
CTERA Enterprise Data Services Platform 5.0
One of IT’s primary jobs is providing services to support employee productivity, things like data access, file sharing and collaboration, which now includes smartphone and tablet support to enable a mobile workforce. These are services that employees need and will…
Tagged with: Cloud, CTERA, Data Protection, file sync and share, FS&S, Hypervisor, NAS
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Briefing Note: Imation focuses on locking down High-Value Data
There is a new data type that IT professionals need to be concerned with: high-value data. This is unstructured (file) data typically created by users, that has organizationally sensitive information in it and needs to be protected from tampering, loss…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Collaboration, File Sharing, High-Value Data, Imation, Nexsan
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EMC World 2015 Day 2 Podcast
George Crump is in Las Vegas for EMC World 2015 and joins Charlie Hodges with an update from the second day at of the annual event. We discuss EMC’s Federation involving Pivotal, VMware and other partners, and how that Federation…
EMC World 2015 – Plotting a Path to the Hybrid Cloud
As we enter the hybrid cloud era one of the biggest challenges facing customers is how to get there. The most common approach is to use the cloud as secondary storage. Typically the cloud is either a primary backup repository or a…
Storage News and Insights for the week of 4-24
George Crump and Eric Slack join Charlie Hodges on this week’s Storage News and Insights podcast from Storage Switzerland. Huge revenues for Amazon Web Services, driving down costs for cloud storage and showing how the cloud is now as fast as…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Cloud, NAS, Podcast, SoftNas, SpectraLogic, StorReduce
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Briefing Note: StorReduce – Driving Down the cost of Cloud Storage
Because of the capacity requirements associated with it, the cloud storage use case is the most difficult to justify for enterprises. Paying for petabytes of capacity on a recurring basis can get very expensive, especially for backup and archive data…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Clone, Cloud, Deduplication, Dev & Test, StorReduce, Virtual machine, VM
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