Briefing Note: Zadara Storage Corporate IT is transitioning to an “As a Service” model. That is because the as a service model is not just isolated to the cloud – there are plenty of on-premises service use cases as well.…
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Multi-Tenant Docker Storage Containers
Tagged with: as-a-Service, Cloud, Container, Disaster recovery, Flash, Multi-Tenant, QOS, SSD, Zadara
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Managing Active Unstructured Data
InterModal Data Briefing Note Unstructured data continues its endless growth. Much of this data is never accessed again after its creation, but there is a portion of it that is frequently accessed and needs to respond to those requests. The…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Archive, Capacity, DRAM, Flash, InterModal Data, ISCSI, NFS, Object Storage, performance, QOS, Unstructured data
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Addressing the All-Flash Wall – Nexgen Announces All-Flash Array with Tiering and QoS
The first wave of all-flash arrays was typically purchased to address a specific performance problem like a poor performing database application or to allow a VDI project to live up to user expectations. Most all-flash arrays successfully addressed, and in…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, DRAM, Flash, NexGen, QOS, SSD
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The Storage Requirements for 100% Virtualization
After a rapid move from test to production, virtualization of existing servers in many companies seems to slow down. While it is true that most data centers have adopted a virtualize first philosophy, getting those older, mission critical workloads virtualized…
Tagged with: Bare Metal, Critical, QOS, RPO, RTO, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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MeetTheCEO Podcast with John Spiers CEO of NexGen Storage
In this week’s MeetTheCEO podcast George Crump and I sit down with John Spiers, CEO of NexGen Storage. We’ll talk about a fundamental problem facing storage systems. At any given time, only five percent of global data is considered relevant. Yet…
ChalkTalk Video: Establishing Peace between DBAs and Storage Admins with Software Defined Storage
Storage Admins and Database Admins are often at odds with one another. DBAs want more performance, more availability and more capacity, often pushing the storage architecture to its limits. In this video, StorageSwiss and ioFABRIC depict the typical DBA /…
Tagged with: DBA, ioFABRIC, LUN, Next Generation Data Center, performance, QOS, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Vvols
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Is IP Storage DR leaving you Exposed?
As the world of applications explode, an increasing amount of critical business information is being passed between data center sites using IP storage. Most IP storage systems have excellent replication software built into them, but the infrastructure that IP storage…
Tagged with: Brocade, dr, Encryption, FC, Fibre Channel, IP Storage, QOS, Replication, SAN, WAN
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The Problems with VVOLS
For simplicity, most storage administrators create a finite number of LUNs for their VMware Infrastructure and assign as many virtual machine (VM) datastores to each LUN as possible. Management is simplified thanks to a limited number of LUNs but it…
Containers vs. Virtual Machines
Which is Right for Windows Applications? Virtualization has allowed the data center to become more responsive to the needs of the business. As it has moved into production, however, virtualization has hit several walls and the scalability of the “one…
Tagged with: Availability, Container, DH2i, Efficiency, Hypervisor, QOS, Scale, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Why Storage vMotion hurts and how to stop the pain
VMware’s Storage vMotion is an invaluable tool to enable the migration of a virtual machine’s (VMs) datastore to another storage system. It is similar in concept to how regular vMotion migrates a VM to another host in a VMware cluster.…
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