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What are the Requirements to Consolidate Storage?

Posted on August 3, 2015 by George Crump

In the perfect world, a data center would have a single storage system. One that would provide high performance and high capacity in a single platform that doesn’t take up much data center floor space. Ideally, this system would be…

Tagged with: Consolidation, DRAM, Flash, Hypervisor, Infinidat, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Briefing Note: TrueNAS is FreeNAS for the Enterprise – iXsystems makes Open Source Data Center Ready

Posted on July 10, 2015 by George Crump

iXsystems has been a part of the FreeBSD community for years. It developed FreeNAS, one of the most popular open source Network Attached Storage (NAS) software solutions on the market. While FreeNAS can hold its own, feature wise, with almost…

Tagged with: FreeNAS, iXSystems, NAS, Open Source, TrueNAS
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Briefing Note: Idealstor Enables the Hyper-Converged SMB

Posted on June 30, 2015 by George Crump

Small to medium sized business (SMB) are a great target for hyper-converged architectures because SMBs don’t typically have the application requirements that would justify dedicated compute and storage hardware. The problem is that many hyper-converged architectures (HCAs) are too expensive…

Tagged with: Flash, HCA, Hyper-converged, Idealstor, NAS, SAN, SMB, SSD, Virtualization
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Why is Virtualization creating Storage Sprawl?

Posted on June 29, 2015 by George Crump

Desktop and server virtualization have brought many benefits to the data center. These two initiatives have allowed IT to respond quickly to the needs of the organization while driving down IT costs, physical footprint requirements and energy demands. But there…

Tagged with: DRAM, Flash, HDD, Hypervisor, Infinidat, NAS, ROI, Storage Sprawl, VDI, Virtualization, VM
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Data as a Supply Chain – SANS Technology

Posted on June 18, 2015 by George Crump

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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CTERA Enterprise Data Services Platform 5.0

Posted on May 12, 2015 by Eric Slack

One of IT’s primary jobs is providing services to support employee productivity, things like data access, file sharing and collaboration, which now includes smartphone and tablet support to enable a mobile workforce. These are services that employees need and will…

Tagged with: Cloud, CTERA, Data Protection, file sync and share, FS&S, Hypervisor, NAS
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What are VVols?

Posted on April 30, 2015 by George Crump

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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Storage News and Insights for the week of 4-24

Posted on April 24, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

George Crump and Eric Slack join Charlie Hodges on this week’s Storage News and Insights podcast from Storage Switzerland. Huge revenues for Amazon Web Services, driving down costs for cloud storage and showing how the cloud is now as fast as…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Avere, Cloud, NAS, Podcast, SoftNas, SpectraLogic, StorReduce
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Briefing Note: Hybrid Cloud NAS for the Mid-Market Data Center

Posted on April 20, 2015 by George Crump

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…