Moore’s Law has fundamentally changed the data center. Plentiful processing power has driven the success of technologies like high performance computing, highly scaled database environments and of course virtualization and cloud computing. But to take advantage of all that CPU…
Every few years the backup consolidation project shows up on IT’s whiteboard. The objective of this exercise seems noble enough; consolidate point solutions so that the data protection process can be simplified, while at the same time increasing protection quality…
Big Data, Sensor Data and Business Analytics are accelerating the already rapid growth of unstructured data. To make matters worse these data sets often need to be retained in an online format for very long periods of time. The capacity…
In a recent webinar I discussed how a Hybrid System could be architected so that it could perform as well, or almost as well, as an All-Flash Array. If the IT planner decides to implement a Hybrid Array, there is…
There are a number of factors that impact the performance of an All-Flash or Hybrid storage system. These systems are all based on the same basic foundation, flash memory acting as storage. In the hard drive era, inefficient software and…
One of the key challenges to any data protection strategy is deciding where to store data and how to get that data off-site. Initially in most environments, all backups were stored on tape. Those tapes were then packaged up and…
Nimble Storage has developed and marketed a successful line of iSCSI-based ‘hybrid’ storage arrays (disk and flash) designed for a wide range of use cases. These systems scale up, adding drive shelves behind a controller module, and scale out, clustering…
Many technology companies talk a good game about providing their customers with choice, but few actually deliver on it. Public, private and hybrid cloud backup solution provider, Infrascale’s offering was built from the ground up with customer choice and hybrid…
Tegile recently announced two new members of its product family and an update to its software that promises to get more data centers taking their first significant flash step. This announcement addresses two challenges head-on that Storage Switzerland sees facing…
The fact that unstructured data is growing at an uncontrollable rate should come as no surprise to IT professionals. The challenge is figuring out what to do about this growth. How can you store it all in a cost effective…
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