In the last few months, I’ve heard several Fortune 100 company CEOs claim that they are software companies first, manufacturers of products second. These CEOs are not from high-tech startups, instead most of them are makers of everyday items like…
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ownCloud 8.1 Extends Beyond File Sync and Share
The Need to Share The wide spread proliferation of public file sync and share services like Dropbox, Box and various others, make it very easy to share almost any type of file regardless of its size, with anyone you want.…
Tagged with: Encryption, file sync and share, FS&S, ownCloud, performance, Scale, Shadow IT
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Virtual Instruments Extends VirtualWisdom Capabilities with 4.3 Release
Virtual Instruments VirtualWisdom 4.3 Briefing Note Today’s data center is dealing with tight budgets, demands for increased storage efficiency and of course higher application performance and availability. In the past, data centers addressed these competing interests by purchasing hardware designed…
Tagged with: Efficiency, Infrastructure, performance, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Posted in Briefing Note
Webinar: Five Reasons the Enterprise Needs HPC Technology
Up until the past year or two, High-Performance Compute (HPC) environments and the enterprise data center have been separate domains. But now the data intensive demands of analytics, migrations to cloud infrastructures and ever growing numbers of users looking to…
MeetTheCEO: All-Flash Vendor, Kaminario’s CEO Dani Golan
He’s our first All-Flash CEO on MeetTheCEO and he may just be one of the more interesting CEO’s to join us on the podcast. Not only is Dani Golan running a successful all-flash array vendor, but he was also a…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Kaminario, MeetTheCEO, performance
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Posted in Podcast
Virtualization and All-Flash Arrays, a Must Have?
Flash Virtualization Myth #1 – All-Flash Arrays are a “must” for Virtualization There are a lot of myths surrounding the use of flash and virtualization, in our on demand webinar we expose the top 4. One of those myths is…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Flash Performance, HDD, Hybrid, performance, Tegile, virtual environment, Virtualization, VM
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Conventional Storage QoS falls short on VMware and Virtualized Workloads
An increasing number of storage systems are coming to market with Quality of Service (QoS) functionality that allows an administrator to guarantee and in some cases, limit the amount of storage performance that a VMware or other virtualized workloads will…
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, IOPS, LUN, performance, QOS, Shared Storage, Tintri, Virtualization, VM
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Posted in Article
What are VVols?
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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Three new considerations for Scale-Out and Scale-Up All-Flash Architectures
A couple of years ago Storage Switzerland wrote an article “Scale Out or Scale Up? – 6 Key Considerations for the Flash Array Buyer”. The points made in that article are still relevant, but vendors in both architecture camps have…
ChalkTalk Video: Making Backup Storage Work Harder
We’ve kicked off the 2015 season of our data protection workshops. This year we are providing details on real-world designs that upgrade your backups. At the “Backup 2.0 Workshop” we will break the age-old rules of data protection to meet…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, performance, RPO, RTO, Storage Decisions, Storage Decisions 2015, TechTarget
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