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Picking The Next Storage Networking Protocol

Posted on August 26, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

The data center is under immense pressure to scale the infrastructure to support more virtual machines, more users per database and to deal with the capacity growth caused by big data. As they refresh their storage systems to address these…

Tagged with: CISCO, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Infrastructure, Scale, Storage Networking Protocol
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SolidFire brings Agile Storage Infrastructure to the Enterprise

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Eric Slack

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) often walk on the edge of a knife. They have to supply the capacity and performance to meet their clients’ SLAs but still keep costs under control in a hyper-competitive environment. For their storage systems it’s…

Tagged with: Cloud Service Providers, Cluster, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, QOS, SLA, SolidFire
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Understanding the Oracle Data Protection Gap

Posted on August 11, 2014 by Colm Keegan

For many, snapshots are the go to data protection method for protecting Oracle databases. They can provide efficient, rapid protection from database corruption with high data integrity. But snapshot data protection has its limitations. First, snapshot copies can become corrupted…

Tagged with: Application Data, Backup, Backup and Recovery, Block Level Backup, EMC, Hybrid Data, Infrastructure, Protection, Server-less Backup
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The future of the Storage business

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Eric Slack

HDS Analyst Summit 2014 One of the topics at Hitachi Data Systems’ analyst summit in Colorado recently was the future of storage. The company was asked by several participants what their strategy was to deal with the ‘commoditization’ of storage…

Tagged with: Analytics, Big data, Data Collection, Hitachi Data Systems, Infrastructure, Storage
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Storage Q&A: on the waste of VDI only Storage

Posted on June 6, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Charlie: A lot of webinars coming up with Storage Switzerland. George Crump is with us to talk about these. George, we have everything from server-side flash, to stopping performance sprawl, 5 keys to successful hybrid cloud strategy, and avoiding the…

Tagged with: Hybrid Cloud, I/O, Infrastructure, Performance Sprawl, SAN, Server Side Flash, VDI, Virtual, Virtualization, Webinar
Posted in Storage Q&A

The EMC, VMware and Pivotal Federation

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Colm Keegan

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)…

Tagged with: EMC, EMC World, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Pivotal, Virtualization, VMware
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Designing An Enterprise Class File Sync and Share Solution

Posted on April 8, 2014 by Colm Keegan

When it comes to file sharing services, end-users have literally taken matters into their own hands. The proliferation of tablets and mobile devices has empowered end-users to consume public cloud services on-demand from any location globally. As a result, more…

Tagged with: Cloud, Collaboration, Data Sharing, File Share, File Sync, Infrastructure, NAS, PanTerra
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Why IT Needs to Offer Data Protection As A Service

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Technologies like application virtualization have given end users increasingly more choice in today’s IT marketplace. New business services can be rapidly spun up on-demand, either in the four walls of the data-center or out into a cloud service provider’s (CSP)…

Tagged with: Application, Backup, Data Domain, Data Protection, EMC, Infrastructure, Protection
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Don’t Let Virtualization Break Your Backup Infrastructure

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Colm Keegan

As a seasoned IT backup administrator recently said on a Storage Swiss webinar, “Avoid hearing the footsteps…”. This IT pro was referring to the unpleasant situation when folks from the C level suite start milling around outside your office waiting…