As Storage Switzerland covered in a recent briefing note “Solving the VDI Storage Contradiction“ Atlantis ILIO is a software solution that addresses the often conflicting requirements facing many companies with their VDI deployments: providing adequate performance for virtual desktops and…
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Atlantis Raises the Software-defined Storage Bar
Tagged with: Atlantis, Desktop virtualization, Hardware, SDS, Software Defined Storage, VMware, Xen
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Removing Flash’s Final Latency Roadblock
One of the key attributes of flash storage is its ability to remove storage I/O latency. The memory based storage technology can respond instantly to requests for data. However, flash’s zero latent nature exposes latency in other parts of the…
Tagged with: DIMM, Flash memory, Hardware, PCI Express, SanDisk, SMART Storage Systems, Solid-state drive
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Is it Time to Upgrade Your Storage Evaluation Process?
In the modern data center, storage system upgrades are rarely caused by a storage system running out of capacity; rather, it more often occurs due to an unanticipated lack of performance or exorbitant maintenance prices. In fact, performance related upgrades…
Transform Backup Data into an Information Advantage
Backup infrastructure is somewhat like an expensive insurance policy. Large premiums are expended on backup hardware, software and people resources to collect, store and protect business information in the event a “claim”, or in this instance, a data recovery event…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Dropbox, ExaGrid, Hardware, HP, Site Management, Storage
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Bringing Cloud Storage to the Tier 2 Data Center
Unstructured data is file based data that is most commonly associated with user productivity applications like word processing, spreadsheets and presentation files. But unstructured data also includes rich media from training videos, photos, CAD-CAM drawings etc., plus the data created…
Big Data Demands Big Changes to Legacy Backup Licensing
It is no surprise that backup related expenditures represent a major cost center for most data center environments. As data grows, so grows the need to increase the hardware and software resources for protecting this information. Denser disk and tape…
Object Storage Industry Veteran Cleversafe now Supports Hadoop
OBS has been a hot topic of late, and rightly so, it’s a technology whose time has come. The advantages it brings to companies facing extreme data growth, often referred to as ‘hyper-scale’ environments, are pretty remarkable. Basically, object storage…
Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, Hadoop, Hardware, MapReduce, Object Storage, Storage
Posted in Case Study
Posted in Case Study
How Does Shutterfly Keep 80PB of Pictures Safe and Available?
Shutterfly is the market leader in digital, personalized photo products, currently serving millions of customers who benefit from unlimited, secure (and free) storage, plus a 100 percent happiness guarantee. They help customers turn their pictures into lasting keepsakes, such as…
Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, Disk array, Hardware, Object Storage, RAID, Shutterfly, Storage
Posted in Case Study
Posted in Case Study
The TCO of Meeting a Backup Window
Backup is a budget area that’s considered an expense, one for which investment is typically minimized. When money is spent it often goes to short-term fixes for the most essential parts of the process, like meeting the backup window. This…
Tagged with: Backup, Data deduplication, Hardware, Information technology, Sepaton
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
Overcoming The Challenges With SSD Reliability
Articles posted on the Storage Switzerland web site that focus on SSD Reliability are consistently among the top read articles on our site. Clearly there is concern about using the technology in the enterprise and IT planners want to know…
Tagged with: Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Hardware, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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