Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) often walk on the edge of a knife. They have to supply the capacity and performance to meet their clients’ SLAs but still keep costs under control in a hyper-competitive environment. For their storage systems it’s…
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Tagged with: Cloud Service Providers, Cluster, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, QOS, SLA, SolidFire
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Controlling Storage Network Link Speed
Data center initiatives, like server and desktop virtualization, as well as the introduction of flash enhanced storage, have motivated storage managers to upgrade their storage networks sooner than they might have planned. But those storage managers would be wise to…
Tagged with: Brocade, Fibre Channel, QOS, Quality of service, VDI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VM Density
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How to design Storage for the Next Generation Data Center
Being a cloud provider is a challenging proposition. Like a utility, a cloud provider (public or private) has to support almost any level of user consumption and maintain that support as demand changes, with little or no advanced notice. These…
VDI Storage Should Do More than Just VDI
What do companies expect from a VDI project? In the long run they expect more flexible device deployment, lower desktop support costs, and better protection from device and data loss. But short term, a VDI deployment can’t make things worse…
ChalkTalk Video – Does VDI Need Dedicated Storage?
Webinar: “Avoid the Waste of a VDI-only Storage Solution” – Available on Demand – includes exclusive VDI vs. Storage White Paper – WATCH NOW In this chalk talk video George Crump from Storage Switzerland discusses the trend towards using dedicated…
What is the Right VDI Storage Solution? – IT should expect more
From a storage perspective, VDI is tough duty. The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure sees I/O patterns that are highly random and highly concentrated, which can bring a storage system to its knees. But there’s a risk here too, that infrastructure must…
Why Storage-As-A-Service Is The Future Of IT
Selecting the right storage hardware can often be a no-win proposition for the IT professional. The endless cycle of storage tech refreshes and capacity upgrades puts IT planners and their administrators into an infinite loop of assessing and re-assessing their…
Storage QoS – A New Requirement for Shared Storage
In the virtualized data center shared storage is truly shared. Each attached server host may have dozens of virtual machines all accessing the same shared storage system at the same time. This creates a new requirement for shared storage systems,…
Overcoming The Risk of Mixing Storage Workloads
Silos of storage within the storage environment are increasing at an alarming rate with each being dedicated to a specific task or workload. Why? The answer is simple: risk mitigation. The data center can’t afford to have applications experience unpredicted…
Tagged with: Caching, Fusion-io, I/O, Internet of Things, IOPS, Migration, performance, QOS, Silos, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Don’t Let Virtualization Break Your Backup Infrastructure
As a seasoned IT backup administrator recently said on a Storage Swiss webinar, “Avoid hearing the footsteps…”. This IT pro was referring to the unpleasant situation when folks from the C level suite start milling around outside your office waiting…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, disk backup, ExaGrid, GRID, Hybrid, Infrastructure, QOS, Virtualization
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