The modern storage infrastructure presents IT professionals with a myriad of challenges. Three challenges however top the list: reducing costs, creating flexibility and delivering storage as a service (SaaS). Software solutions like EMC’s ViPR provide IT professionals with the ability…
Like virtualization before it, container technology will evolve from a DevOps initiative to an enterprise requirement. Docker is leading that evolution as it promises to bring greater efficiency to the data center than we ever thought possible with the virtual…
IT professionals are being flooded with infrastructure options to solve their business continuity challenges. Do they continue to leverage on-premises equipment and the organization’s own disaster recovery facilities, or should they leverage one of the cloud options? Join Storage Switzerland…
Briefing Note: Avere CloudFusion The cloud appeals to organizations of all sizes, but as they begin their migration they are faced with the challenge of trying to integrate into the cloud provider’s storage infrastructure. Amazon, for example, has Elastic Block…
Some vendors present Software Defined Storage (SDS) as a revolution in the storage infrastructure. Data Centers, especially those with an existing investment in storage systems, are looking for a more incremental journey that allows them to move to SDS, while…
Container technologies are capturing the industry headlines right now, but they are seen mainly as a solution for Linux test-dev environments. In reality, container technology can pay big dividends for MS-SQL. Join Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and DH2i’s Carl Berglund…
In a recent StorageSwiss survey, 40% of respondents indicated that they were interested in deploying Docker into production, as a compliment or potentially as an alternative to VMware. Docker containers are resource efficient and extremely flexible, which have lead to its…
Briefing Note: Brocade Analytics Monitoring Platform Flash has solved a lot of the storage performance challenges that the modern data center has but it is not a cure-all. The problem is that most organizations are ill-equipped to resolve the issue…
The two key benefits of Software Defined Storage (SDS) are increased flexibility and improved storage economics. Ironically, for organizations that standardize on a SDS solution, their flexibility and cost savings are restricted by storage hardware, which of course is still…
Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom 4.3 Briefing Note Today’s data center is dealing with tight budgets, demands for increased storage efficiency and of course higher application performance and availability. In the past, data centers addressed these competing interests by purchasing hardware designed…
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