Data mobility was once the stuff of dreams – but no more. The days of data a user creates, manages, and eventually deletes living all in one place are no more. Data management applications that acknowledge this are the new…
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The Time Cost of a Storage Refresh
For most data centers, periodic storage refreshes are a way of life. Many times, the storage vendor causes the refresh by pricing out-year maintenance renewals to the point that it is more cost effective to buy a new system than…
What are VVols?
With vSphere 6, VMware is set to address one of the biggest storage management problems facing the virtualized environment, associating virtual machines (VMs) with the storage they are using. VVOLs provide that visibility and allow storage and server administration to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Availability, Data migration, Data Protection, FC, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, ISCSI, LUN, NAS, NexGen, performance, SSD, Virtual machine, VM, VVOL
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Briefing Note: StorageX Promises to end NAS Migration pain
The explosion of digital content is forcing an evolution, making the traditional data center model of a single standardized Network Attached Storage (NAS) system a thing of the past. Today, data centers are forced to use multiple NAS types to…
Tagged with: CIFS, Data Dynamics, Data migration, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Metadata, NAS, Network-attached storage, NFS, StorageX, Unstructured data
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Dell – Delivering Flash the way customers want
Flash consumption by the enterprise data center is typically done as a response to a specific performance problem. The flash purchase that often results are typically either an all-new flash array or it is added to an existing array. The…
Tagged with: Compellent, Data migration, Dell, Flash, Hard disk, HDD, Hybrid, MLC, SLC
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DDN goes the last mile in commercial HPC
Where once the purview of research labs and high-transaction applications, high performance computing (HPC) is now making its way into mainstream IT. Enterprises are finding out the value of analytics for keeping abreast of their customers and ahead of the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data migration, DDN, High Performance Computing, HPC, Object Storage
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