IT professionals have more choices than ever when it comes to deciding what to store their data on and where that storage should reside in the infrastructure. Flash storage choices include SLC, MLC, TLC/3D NAND and can reside in the…
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ChalkTalk Video: VMworld Infrastructures – Fibre, IP Storage and the Cloud
The data center infrastructure is evolving. At the core is the Fibre Channel SAN, which is itself evolving gain speed and capabilities like 16Gbps bandwidth. Then there is the move toward next generation applications that often count on IP-based storage.…
ChalkTalk Video: Selecting a Storage System for Virtualization AND Containers
At VMworld we hear a lot about container technology like Docker. It is becoming clear that as containers become adopted by the data center the storage infrastructure will need to support both operating environments. In this ChalkTalk video, George Crump,…
Docker and Storage – Understanding Docker I/O
Designing a Docker Storage Infrastructure A recent Storage Switzerland report covered the basics of Docker and Storage; what Docker is and how it impacts storage. Container technology and Docker specifically places unique demands on the storage infrastructure that most legacy…
Tagged with: Container, Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, I/O, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: The Top 4 Requirements of a Docker Storage Architecture
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…
Tagged with: Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization
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Webinar: The Top 3 Reasons To Start Using Containers For Your MS-SQL Environment
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…
MeetTheCEO: Gridstore’s George Symons
In our latest Meet The CEO podcast, join George Crump as we “meet” George Symons, veteran of the Storage Industry and CEO of Gridstore. George has over 20 years of experience in IT Infrastructure and in this podcast we talk…
Hadoop and OpenStack for Enterprise Big Data – Moving from Erector Set to Ready To Go
Big Data Analytics is more than just an interesting IT initiative, these infrastructures are starting to re-shape how businesses develop new products, respond to customer needs and achieve new levels of efficiency. The problem is that most Hadoop environments, the…
Tagged with: Big data, Capacity, Data Protection, Hadoop, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, OpenStack, Reliability, Scale-Out
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The All-Flash Problem… Reality
The concept of an all-flash array once seemed impossibly expensive, but now almost a dozen companies ship a storage system that has no hard disk drives inside. The bigger question is if and when the entire data center can become…
MeetTheCEO: Hedvig’s Avinash Lakshman Brings Distributed Systems Approach to Storage
A key designer of the infrastructures of Amazon and Facebook, Hedvig’s CEO, Avinash Lakshman brings a distributed systems approach to storage. Hedvig is a storage software company that delivers a highly distributed platform which is designed to run on off…
Tagged with: Cache, Flash, Hedvig, Infrastructure, MeetTheCEO, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Sprawl
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