VMware changed the data center so much that it is hard to imagine a world without virtualization. One challenge for VMware customers (still) – as well as customers of other hypervisors – is storage technology hasn’t always kept pace with…
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What to expect from your VMware Storage
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Fibre Channel, Hedvig, Hypervisor, ISCSI, Replication, SAS, SATA, Scale Up, Scale-Out, SSD, VMware
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Webinar: Storage Refresh? 3 Capabilities Primary Storage Must Have (but probably doesn’t)
If your organization is embarking on a refresh of your primary storage system this year, this is the one webinar that you will want to attend. IT evaluators that haven’t looked at storage in a few years will be impressed…
Are You Asking Too Much of Your NetApp Filer?
Organizations are asking the present day NetApp Filer to do many things: host home directories, store machine generated data, host virtual machine images and even databases. What was once a single purpose appliance focused on file server replacement is now…
Tagged with: Caringo, Data Protection, FAS, ISCSI, NetApp, Object Storage, Replication, Snaphots, Unstructured data, VM
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What are Cloud File Services?
Most IT professionals think of cloud storage as storage at the end of an internet connection that, because of the inherent latency, is for data that doesn’t need instant access. As a result, IT uses it mostly for backup, archive…
Managing Active Unstructured Data
InterModal Data Briefing Note Unstructured data continues its endless growth. Much of this data is never accessed again after its creation, but there is a portion of it that is frequently accessed and needs to respond to those requests. The…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Archive, Capacity, DRAM, Flash, InterModal Data, ISCSI, NFS, Object Storage, performance, QOS, Unstructured data
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MeetTheCEO: Former EqualLogic Founder and DataGravity CEO Paula Long
In this MeetTheCEO, George Crump and I sit down with Paula Long, who was one of the co-founders of EqualLogic, the company that ignited the storage revolution, putting the big three storage companies on notice. EqualLogic brought enterprise features to…
Data as a Supply Chain – SANS Technology
All data has a lifecycle or supply chain attached to it, and storage systems need to respond differently to data as it moves through each link in this chain. The problem is that most data centers treat all data the same,…
Tagged with: Data Protection, DRaaS, FC, file sync and share, Hyper-converged, ISCSI, NAS, Replication, SAN, SANS Technology
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What are VVols?
With vSphere 6, VMware is set to address one of the biggest storage management problems facing the virtualized environment, associating virtual machines (VMs) with the storage they are using. VVOLs provide that visibility and allow storage and server administration to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Availability, Data migration, Data Protection, FC, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, ISCSI, LUN, NAS, NexGen, performance, SSD, Virtual machine, VM, VVOL
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Briefing Note: Hybrid Cloud NAS for the Mid-Market Data Center
Businesses of all sizes are experiencing rapid growth of their unstructured data, and more than just traditional user files created by office productivity applications. This growth includes backup data, sensor data and data from internet-connected devices like surveillance cameras. The…
Briefing Note: The Ultra48 AssuredSAN, Dot Hill’s new High-Density Hybrid Array
Long-time storage systems OEM, Dot Hill, recently announced the Ultra48 AssuredSAN, a high-density, 48-drive, hybrid disk array that runs their RealStor 2.0 software. The Ultra48 is designed with three drawers of 16 x 2.5” drives that can be configured in…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Caching, Dot Hill, FC, HDD, Hybrid array, ISCSI, SSD, Tiering
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