In a recent webinar I discussed how a Hybrid System could be architected so that it could perform as well, or almost as well, as an All-Flash Array. If the IT planner decides to implement a Hybrid Array, there is…
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Analyst Blog: Which RAID Level should you use for your SSD Tier?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cache, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, RAID, Solid State Disk, SSD
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The Top 5 StorageSwiss Articles for 2014
This is it, the final entry of the year for Storage Switzerland and where we announce the top 5 articles for 2014. But before we do, we want to wish all our readers a safe New Year’s Eve and a…
Tagged with: Cache, Efficiency, Hyper-converged, Latency, server-side storage, Software Defined, Storage Controller, VSAN
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Is Druva’s Phoenix the next step in Mid-market Cloud Backup?
Druva is a market leader in end-point data protection with over 3000 customers in 70 countries. They see cloud backup approaching a ‘tipping point’ which could enable it to become a de facto standard in the backup industry, especially if…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, D2D2C, Data Protection, Data Retention, Data security, Deduplication, Druva, Latency, Metadata
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Fiber Mountain’s Software-Defined Networking lowers Network Latency and Cost
Networks have historically been constructed using a hierarchical topology of rack and row switches connected into large ‘directors’ at the data center core. This architecture generates a number of ‘hops’ as packets traverse the network from edge to core to…
Tagged with: Fiber Mountain, I/O Virtualization, Infrastructure, IOV, Latency, Network Interface Card, NIC, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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Should you be able to turn All-Flash Deduplication off?
Deduplication, along with compression, provides the ability to more efficiently use premium priced flash capacity. But capacity efficiency comes with at least some performance impact. This is especially true on all-flash arrays where data efficiency features can’t hide behind hard…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, Kaminario, Latency, Permabit, Pure, SolidFire, Tegile, Texas Memory Systems, Violin Memory
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SilverPeak: Delivering Data Optimization for the Enterprise and Cloud
SilverPeak software shrinks replication time between remote and home offices or between data centers. Their new Unity solution also enables more intelligent data movement between data centers and the cloud, providing consistent, lower-latency performance regardless of where users or applications…
Cloud Integrated Backup and DR
The best way to ensure data and application recoverability is to conduct frequent DR testing. The problem is that many organizations rarely, if ever, perform DR testing because it is time consuming, expensive and often it has limited value because…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Datto, Disaster recovery, Infrastructure, Latency, Recovery, Restoration, Storage
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The four quadrants of Virtualized Flash use
There is little debate that flash has an important role to play in the virtualized environment. Its high performance, low latency attributes make it ideal for data centers looking to solve the infamous storage I/O ‘blender’ that a dense virtual…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, Pure, SAN, Server Cache, Virtualization
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OCZ’s Enterprise SATA SSDs deliver consistently better performance
Flash is replacing hard disk drives (HDDs) in more and more environments, and not just as boot drives for PCs and laptops. Enterprises are turning to a new class of high performance SATA-based drive form-factor SSDs to accelerate databases, push…
XtremIO update at Flash Memory Summit
One of the headlines at this years Flash Memory Summit was the much broader participation of the traditional storage vendors. Dell, IBM, Hitachi and HP were all there. Not to be left out, EMC also had a presence and we…
Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, EMC, Latency, Scale-Out, Snapshots, Thin provisioning, XtremIO
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