From high density virtualization to software-defined infrastructures, changes in technology are coming fast. And keeping up with these changes is pushing IT staffs in the real world data center to the breaking point. This means detailed storage design and planning…
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Dot Hill Delivers Storage for the Real World Data Center
Tagged with: Dot Hill, Fibre Channel, Hardware, ISCSI, SNW Europe, Storage, Virtualization
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Is Real-time Tiering the Next Big Thing in Storage?
Dot Hill is a storage array manufacturer that’s built a name for itself primarily in the OEM world. They’ve been manufacturing mid-range storage arrays for over 25 years, currently supporting HP, Lenovo, Stratus, Quantum and a number of other vendors,…
Proximal Data Cache Goes Cross-Everything
With the second major release of AutoCache, Proximal Data has taken steps to go cross-hypervisor and cross-storage platform. With 2.0 they can accelerate in NFS, iSCSI and Fibre channel environments as well as provide a performance boost to Hyper-V environments.…
What is the Fate of Object Storage?
Object storage and the systems that leverage its unique data storage approach have been the subject of much hype over the past few years. If you took past analyst predictions at face value, by now all unstructured data would be…
Tagged with: Active Archive, Active Archive Alliance, ISCSI, NAS, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
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What Is GEN 5 Fibre?
Despite the best marketing efforts of various forms of IP based storage, Fibre Channel continues to gain momentum in the enterprise. The growth in large, real-time databases and the increasing VM density per physical host, as well as the proliferation…
Tagged with: Brocade, Fibre Channel, Gen 5, ISCSI, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network
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OCZ’s VXL Solves the “DAS Problem” of PCIe Flash
Storage problems are ‘taking the fun’ out of virtualization. Legacy storage systems can’t keep up with the performance demands of highly random workloads that server virtualization environments generate. Because of this, companies are seeing these deployments make for much lower VM…
Tagged with: flash storage, ISCSI, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VMware
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
The Unified Cloud Storage Array
Cloud Storage Gateways can provide a variety of services that allow data centers to connect to the cloud. There are multiple backup gateways, a few file services (NAS) gateways and fewer still primary storage (iSCSI) gateways. Incredibly rare are gateways…
High Performance Storage For The SMB
As the Small to Medium Size (SMB) data center continues to increase its level of virtualization, it is being faced with performance demands – not unlike the enterprise – that result from multiple virtual machines per physical host. In fact,…
Tagged with: Drobo, ISCSI, OCZ, SMB, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine
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