WAN Acceleration technologies have typically been deployed as appliances, however, the realities of virtualized infrastructure is demanding a more flexible approach to align with the needs of the software defined data center. WAN acceleration and optimization is more critical than…
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Webinar: Are You Ready For Software Defined WAN Acceleration?
Tagged with: Data center, Virtual machine, Virtual reality, WAN, WAN optimization, Wide area network
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Can Snapshots Be Backups?
My colleague Eric Slack, recently wrote a column suggesting that how we protect data needs to change in order to meet the ever shrinking backup and recovery windows. That column has also generated quite a few comments objecting to his…
Tagged with: Backup, Data center, Data Protection, Flash, Replication, Snapshot, Storage
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VMAX Made Easy
We concluded our full day of briefings at EMC by meeting with the VMAX product team. The VMAX product family represents EMC’s top of the line, enterprise class storage solution. While there are some similarities between the midrange VNX and…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Data center, EMC, EMC Symmetrix, EMCbreifingDay, IOPS, VMAX, VNX, XtremIO
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Your Data, Anywhere – NAS for Amazon S3 and Glacier – Avere Announces Amazon Integrated Cloud NAS at re:Invent
One of the challenges facing IT planners is where to start with services like Amazon’s AWS. The logical first step is as a data repository to reduce the amount of on-premise data that needs to be stored and managed. The…
Tagged with: Amazon re:Invent, Amazon S3, Avere, Cloud NAS, Cloud storage, Data center, Glacier, NAS, Object Storage
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SoftNAS Cloud – NAS for Amazon Web Services
When an organization decides to move some or all of its applications out of its data center and into Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), one of the key decisions is how they will store and access data. While Amazon’s Elastic…
Tagged with: Amazon Marketplace, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, Data center, IOPS, NAS
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Flash Aware Fibre Channel
The key objective for organizations investing in flash is to make sure that they are getting the maximum performance out of their premium investment. This means making sure that the application and storage infrastructures are optimized for the near zero…
Tagged with: CrossLink, Data center, Emulex, Fibre Channel, Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, LUN, Storage area network
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Climbing the Cloud Wall of Worry
The recent Nirvanix shutdown has prompted many organizations to reassess their public cloud deployment strategy.If a well funded cloud service provider (CSP) with major OEM relationships wasn’t able to survive, what does that portend for other players in the industry?…
Tagged with: Cloud computing, Data center, Data security, Hybrid Cloud Storage, Nirvanix, Western Digital
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Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash
One of the key discussion tracks at Powering The Cloud / SNW Europe is “Re-Thinking Your Data Center Architecture”. Storage is of course a part of the data center and its architecture also needs to be re-thought. There are two…
Tagged with: Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, PCI Express, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, VMware
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The Benefits of Software-defined Server-side Storage
Hyperscale Data Centers, Managed Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers and large Enterprises all face a similar challenge; how to cost effectively scale their cloud/virtual infrastructures so that maximum return on investment can be achieved. The answer is to build scale-out…
Tagged with: Compuverde, Data center, OpenVMS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage virtualization, Virtual machine
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