Many organizations are considering flash caching as a cost-effective way to accelerate application workloads. The challenge is virtual infrastructure planners need to sift through a myriad of flash caching options available on the market. One of the most popular flash…
One of the major themes here at EMC World 2014 is the “Federated” platform. In essence, this refers to the collaboration and partnership for delivering a totally integrated next generation hybrid cloud computing (or in EMC’s parlance – 3rd platform)…
Virtualization creates a variety of unique factors that cause storage bottlenecks. An increase in application density, coupled with high volumes of randomized read and write requests, for example, place an increased burden on shared storage resources that ultimately has an…
As I discussed at a recent event and covered in one of our top-read articles, “How Will Storage Controller Technology Evolve in 2014?“, this may be a year of significant change in the way we architect storage. There are three…
What is the role of data protection in today’s increasingly virtualized world? Should organizations look towards specialized backup technologies that integrate at the hypervisor or application layer or should they continue utilizing traditional backup solutions to safeguard business data? Or…
When effectively implemented, flash storage technologies can help remedy storage IO contention issues and deliver a performance benefit to virtualized applications. It is important, however, for IT planners to find ways of augmenting virtual machine (VM) performance without discarding their…
Hyper-V is emerging as an alternative to VMware in many environments, but those data centers choosing the Hyper-V path to virtualization nirvana must still deal with storage issues. As it does in VMware environments, Software Defined Storage holds great promise for Hyper-V administrators looking to lower storage costs while increasing storage performance. In this article George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, covers how software defined storage can be optimized for the Hyper-V environment to insure consistent application storage performance while maintaining Hyper-V’s cost advantage.
In a recent paper entitled “3 Storage Trends, 1 Crucial Question” by Phil Godwin, Vice President of Marketing at Clear Tech, the author describes three storage trends: Flash Storage, Tiered Storage and Cloud Storage. He goes on to point out…
Data profiling allows organizations to report and analyze file and email content in order to streamline their data center. By non-disruptively scanning NAS and server storage repositories, backup tapes and archives such as SharePoint, IT planners can gain deep insight…
The wide area network (WAN) as we know it today is evolving. Over the past decade, many organizations have deployed hardware appliances to help speed up the WAN links between data center sites, as well as between primary data centers…
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