The keynote presentations at EMC World seemed very different to me this year. I’ve been to several EMC World conferences, and this one seemed to suggest a pivot for the company that we followed for so many years. To me,…
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NAB Vendors Discover Data Protection
I was pleasantly surprised when I visited storage vendors at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) convention in Las Vegas. If you’re unfamiliar with the show, suffice it to say that it is massive. It is Las Vegas’ second largest…
Easing Amazon EBS Snapshot Pain, for Free
It’s a major pain to manage snapshots in Amazon Web Services Elastic Block Storage (AWS EBS). It’s essentially a single command line with very limited capabilities. The result is that developers writing applications for AWS find themselves building tools to…
Podcast – EMC World – Day 3 Recap
No registration required – EMC World 2016 is under way. Join me again as I sit down with George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland. In this live podcast we will give you a recap of EMC World day 3…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Protection, EMC, EMC World 2016, Podcast, XtremIO
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SimpliVity – Stepping up to the Hyperconverged Challenge
This week Storage Switzerland attended SimpliVity’s first analyst and influencer day. The event provided the company with a chance to impress the press and analysts on the capabilities of the product, gave a glimpse into upcoming capabilities, and provided a…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyperconverged, Metadata, performance, SimpliVity
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ChalkTalk Video: Designing Storage for Social Discovery
There is a lot of storage cost for “social discovery” websites – sites that deliver content based on specific search requirements – to store their petabytes of collected data. The need to provide near instant response to user requests but…
Tagged with: Architecture, Caringo, Cloud NAS, Data Protection, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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NAS vs. Object: Data Archive – Long Term Efficiencies
The longer you keep data, the more it makes sense to move it off of primary storage and into a different kind of system. It makes financial sense, as discussed in the previous blog entry. It also makes sense for…
Tagged with: Caringo, Cloud NAS, Data Protection, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Unstructured data
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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…
Product Analysis: Scalable NAS for the real world: Redefining NAS Storage
NAS systems have come a long way since SMB & NFS were invented in 1984, and the Dell Fluid File System is proof of that. If one hasn’t looked at a modern day NAS system, this would be a good…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Deduplication, Dell, NAS, Scale-Out, Thin provisioning
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Addressing Modern Recovery Requirements
A Product Analysis of Dell Rapid Recovery It’s time for a new type of backup and recovery because the old ways of backup simply do not meet the current needs of many businesses. It starts with the inefficiencies of how…
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