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Sharable DAS and Cluster in a Box – Big Solutions for Small Companies

Posted on December 2, 2013 by Eric Slack

At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit last week in San Jose the CEO’s keynote began with a somewhat futuristic video showing several scenarios that could have been episodes of the current “Person of Interest” television show. People were connected to big…

Tagged with: Big data, DAS, High Availability, LSI, OpenVMS, SAN, Servers, Storage area network
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VM-Aware Storage Improves Virtualization ROI

Posted on November 4, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Traditional storage was not designed to manage the high volume of I/O workloads characteristic of today’s multi-tenant VMware virtual machine (VM) environments. Consequently, many organizations fall into the trap of over provisioning storage infrastructure to help ensure good virtual application…

Tagged with: Hardware, OpenVMS, Quality of service, Tintri, Virtual machine, VM-Aware Storage, VMware
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Maximizing Value in VMware Caching

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Eric Slack

Maximizing the value of a VMware caching solution involves more than developing algorithms to determine the hottest data and figuring out ways to keep that data in the cache. It also means getting the most out of that expensive flash…

Tagged with: Flash memory, FlashSoft, OpenVMS, SanDisk, Solid-state drive, SSD, Virtual machine, VMDK, VMware, VMware vSphere
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The Million IOPS Data Center

Posted on September 30, 2013 by George Crump

Storage Switzerland recently completed a lab audit of a test performed by Brocade, Emulex and Violin Memory that achieved over two million IOPS. The report is available now and you can get a copy of it by attending our webinar,…

Tagged with: Emulex, Hardware, Intel, IOP, OpenVMS, Violin Memory
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The Benefits of Software-defined Server-side Storage

Posted on July 24, 2013 by George Crump

Hyperscale Data Centers, Managed Service Providers, Cloud Service Providers and large Enterprises all face a similar challenge; how to cost effectively scale their cloud/virtual infrastructures so that maximum return on investment can be achieved. The answer is to build scale-out…

Tagged with: Compuverde, Data center, OpenVMS, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage virtualization, Virtual machine
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The Role Of Enterprise Backup In The Modern Data Center

Posted on June 11, 2013 by George Crump

Data has changed. There is more of it, it’s larger and is no longer all located on a single storage device in the middle of the data center. As a result backup, an already challenging process, is now reaching the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, HP, NetApp, OpenVMS, Storage, TCO, Virtual machine
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Server Side VMware Caching Gets Smarter

Posted on May 6, 2013 by George Crump

Increasing virtual machine (VM) density is critical for organizations looking to continue to reap the ROI benefits of virtualization; the more VMs per server the more cost effective the virtualization project becomes. There is one primary roadblock to increased VM…

Tagged with: Cache, OpenVMS, Proximal Data, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware ESX
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Cloud Backup Requires Intelligent Recovery

Posted on March 7, 2013 by George Crump

Using the cloud as a destination for backups has evolved from a consumer solution into a viable option for many small businesses and larger enterprises. Today production applications and even entire virtualized environments are leveraging the cloud to augment their…

Tagged with: Backup, Business, Cloud computing, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHD Virtual Backup, PHDvirtual, Virtual machine
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Is DR Assurance Missing from VMware Backup?

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Eric Slack

A lot has been going on with PHD Virtual, a company that, despite having dramatic success, may not be well known in the virtualization backup space. To begin with, they just announced their 12th consecutive record quarter and a 40%…

Tagged with: Amazon S3, Backup, Cloud, Disaster recovery, OpenVMS, PHDvirtual, Virtual backup appliance, Virtual machine, VMware
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PHD Virtual Enables Low Cost, Multi-hypervisor Backups

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Eric Slack

Whether you’re just wrapping up your initial virtual server rollout or looking to shore up the data protection process, selecting the right backup solution for virtual environments can be a challenge. To address this, most IT managers have given up…