I recently attended the Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit in Houston featuring CIO and IT executives from around the world. At the summit the subject of using tape in production came up. While we spend most of the time using…
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Identifying Tape As Production Workloads
Tagged with: Backup, Fujifilm, Fujifilm annual Global IT Summit, Hard disk drive, Houston, IBM, Tape drive
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The Democratization of FCoE
Let’s face it, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) has not been the roaring success that vendors hoped it would be. Why? Probably the number one reason is that it was too expensive. Users expected FCoE to be cheaper, much cheaper,…
Tagged with: Ethernet, FCoE, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Hardware, IBM, Intel, ISCSI, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage area network
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Is It Time To Bring Tape Into Production?
Tape as a storage medium has fought off all attacks from disk-based backup and archive vendors and is enjoying a resurgence in the data center. In fact, Storage Switzerland recently polled about 70 large enterprise IT professionals and not one…
Tagged with: CrossRoads Systems, Hard disk drive, IBM, Linear Tape File System, SpectraLogic
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Can Deep Storage Help Cloud Providers Keep their Promise?
Cloud file storage and cloud-based services have historically relied on an interesting strategy, sometimes called a “Free-mium” business model. They offer a free service, typically a stripped down version of their regular product, and encourage users to upgrade to the…
Tagged with: Amazon, Cloud, IBM, Linear Tape File System, Linear Tape-Open, LTFS, SoftLayer, SpectraLogic
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Copy Data in the Cloud
While industry pundits and analysts yammer on about the unrelenting growth of data, the real issue for enterprise data centers and Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), is keeping a lid on the extensive number of redundant copies of information that propagate…
Tagged with: Actifio, Business, Cloud, Data management, HP-UX, IBM, SAP AG, SNW Europe, VMware
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Storage Management – It’s Back on the Shopping List
Storage management tools have sometimes been viewed as a “nice to have” tool by many IT infrastructure planners, however, given all the complexities with efficiently managing resources in today’s highly virtualized server environments, it is quickly turning into a must…
Neos Ventures Helps Enterprises To The Cloud
You can’t get enough good help these days; particularly when it comes to deploying and managing virtualized cloud infrastructure. IT global solutions provider, Neos Ventures, is positioning themselves as a leading player in the burgeoning cloud infrastructure services market to…
Tagged with: Business, Cloud, IBM, Neos Ventures, SNW Europe, Software as a service, VMware
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IBM Solidifies SSD Strategy With Texas Memory Acquisition
In what could be one of the most important acquisitions of the year, IBM today announced plans to acquire Texas Memory Systems. While the details will be presented later on today, we think this is an excellent move on the…
IBM Storage Makes Its SSD Case
At IBM Edge 2012 IBM made its case for having a better end-to-end solid state disk (SSD) strategy over its competitors. For the major suppliers (IBM, EMC, HP, Dell) there are several key locations where they need to be executing…
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