The title of this entry, “Which All-flash Architecture Do You Prefer?”, was actually a question asked on the LinkedIn group, “Storage: SAN, NAS“, a couple of days ago. It was in response to a recent post by Calvin Zito @HPStorageGuy…
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Which All-flash Architecture do you prefer?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Architecture, Backup, Capacity, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Scale Up, Scale-Out
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Understanding All-Flash Architectures – Assessing the right fit for your Data Center and Workloads
Today in the all-flash array market there are two architectures for data centers to choose from; scale out and scale up. Both have their unique strengths and weaknesses. Deciding on the right architecture for an organization’s data center first depends…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Architectures, Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Encryption, I/O, IOPS, Scale Up, SLA, Snapshots, Sprawl, Thin provisioning
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Don’t treat your Backup like an Archive
As the repository of last resort, backups are unique. They essentially store every piece of data in the company, at least all the data that’s worth saving. In order to do this, modern backup systems, which are often disk-based appliances,…
Overcoming challenges when integrating Disk Backup Appliances with Veeam
There is a new breed of backup applications that is gaining acceptance in data centers of all sizes, including the enterprise: VM Specific Backup Applications. These solutions were designed from the ground up, with virtualization in mind and they do…
Tagged with: Backup, CBT, Changed Block Tracking, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, ExaGrid, I/O, Recovery in Place, Replication, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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Instant Deduplication and Compression for Tier-1 Storage
Tier-1 vendors are falling behind startups in offering a complete data efficiency solution. As we discussed the reasons why they are so far behind in our recent article, “The Tier-1 Storage vendor Deduplication and Compression challenge“, integrating a new technology…
Tagged with: Compression, Data efficiency, Data Optimization, Deduplication, HDD, IOPS, LUN, Permabit, Tier-1
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The Tier-1 Storage vendor Deduplication and Compression challenge
Data centers are ready for increased data efficiency that they can get from primary storage deduplication and compression, especially for flash based storage systems. The cost of flash justifies these data reduction technologies and flash’s high performance actually enables their…
Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Efficiency, Integration, Permabit, storage array, Tier-1
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Webinar – Four Assumptions that are Killing Your Backup Storage
Backup systems are coming under fire. Data explosion is certainly part of the problem, but it’s more than just a capacity issue. Backup systems are being asked to do things they were never designed for, like storing largely unchanging data…
VMworld 2014: Can Arcserve make a comeback?
This week in San Francisco, we spent a lot of time meeting with all the new and emerging companies in the storage market. We talked about hot topics like flash storage and server side storage. It came as a surprise…
Tagged with: Arcserve, Data Protection, Deduplication, Recovery, Replication, Service Level, Source Side Deduplication
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How to get MacBook Air VDI Performance at a Chromebook price
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) presents some real challenges for companies looking to replace their inventories of desktop PCs. It has to provide a desktop experience that’s acceptable to users and an infrastructure that costs the same or less than the…
Tagged with: Atlantis, Compression, Cost Effective, Deduplication, Desktop Density, Hypervisor, performance, VDI, Virtual desktop
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All-Flash Architectures Matter
Flash can improve the performance of almost anything that it’s placed into, be it a laptop, a desktop, a server or a storage system. But to derive maximum benefit from a flash investment requires first that the combined workloads be…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Architecture, Deduplication, Efficiency, Flash, HP, performance
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