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Sharable DAS and Cluster in a Box – Big Solutions for Small Companies

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Eric Slack

At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit last week in San Jose the CEO’s keynote began with a somewhat futuristic video showing several scenarios that could have been episodes of the current “Person of Interest” television show. People were connected to big…

Tagged with: Big data, DAS, High Availability, LSI, OpenVMS, SAN, Servers, Storage area network
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Developing a Service Oriented Approach to Data Protection

Posted on October 9, 2013 by George Crump

There is a never ending quest by IT professionals to standardize the data center on a single enterprise backup application. It’s time for companies to re-think that approach, by instead looking at providing backup for their services, instead of foisting…

Tagged with: Backup, Dell, High Availability, Incremental backup, Linux, Microsoft Windows, VMware, Windows
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Are PCIe SSDs Breaking Your Storage Network? – and how to stop it

Posted on October 7, 2013 by George Crump

olid state drive (SSD) solutions using flash are becoming the ‘go to’ options for addressing storage performance bottlenecks. And within that technology category, PCIe based SSDs could represent the state of the art. By locating the flash in the server…

Tagged with: Hard disk drive, High Availability, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage area network, Virident, VMware
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Using All-Flash Arrays To Solve Tier-1 Database Problems

Posted on October 2, 2013 by George Crump

To solve tier-1 database performance problems, it is important to understand the nature of tier-1 applications. Standard definitions of tier-1 include: (i) extremely high cost, extremely high performance applications – sometimes referred to as “tier-0” (e.g., Wall Street trading platforms)…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Cache (computing), Hard disk drive, High Availability, RAID
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