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Briefing Note – FCIA Announces Gen 6 SAN – Podcast

Posted on February 17, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump joins Charlie Hodges for a discussion on an announcement from the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) that a Gen 6 Fibre Channel will be available soon. In this podcast you will learn What is Gen…

Analyzing EMC’s Software Defined Storage

Posted on May 7, 2013 by George Crump

Yesterday at EMC World 2013 EMC announced ViPR, their software defined storage product which abstracts the storage controller and the data services from the physical storage. Unlike other software defined storage it does not totally replace the data services available…

Online Analytics Company Leverages Isilon’s Scale Out Storage for Big Data and Virtualization

Posted on January 10, 2012 by George Crump

One of the big challenges faced by today’s data center is dealing with the mixed workloads that applications like analytics, back-office operations and server virtualization present to the storage infrastructure. In many instances IT professionals are faced with having to…