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In 2015 Storage is still all about the Network

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Briefing Note: CISCO 2015 Product Announcement Summary As we enter 2015, IDC projects a 10X growth in virtual servers over the next five years, a 16X growth in data and a 4X growth in the use of flash based storage. The…

Tagged with: CISCO, FC, FCoE, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, Flash, NAS, Network, SAN, Unstructured data
Posted in Briefing Note

Does Replication equal DR Readiness?

Posted on January 8, 2015 by George Crump

In our recent webinar, “Flexible HA and DR for Virtual Server and Cloud Environments”, a majority of attendees indicated that replication was their sole method of providing high availability and protecting from disaster. While copying data to a secondary storage…

Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS, SQL Server, Virtual Server
Posted in Blog

Podcast – Overcoming the MS-SQL HA Barriers

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Users and business line managers demand that their applications are available all of the time. That’s very expensive and complex. To preview their webinar on the barriers to HA are Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and Tony Tomarchio from SIOS. Click on…

Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS, SQL Server, Virtual Server
Posted in Podcast

How to get Facebook-Like Application Availability

Posted on December 10, 2014 by Colm Keegan

IT organizations are under pressure to deliver an always on experience to their users. In the Facebook and Google era, internal and external customers expect critical business applications to be available at all times. This means that planned or unplanned…

Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS, SQL Server, Virtual Server
Posted in Blog

Webinar – Flexible HA and DR for Virtual Server and Cloud Environments

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Moving business critical applications, such as Microsoft SQL Server, to virtual server and cloud environments, requires high availability and a solid disaster protection plan. The question often asked — will implementing that protection eliminate the cost savings and configuration flexibility…

Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS, SQL Server, Virtual Server
Posted in Webinar

How To Achieve Facebook “Like” High Availability in the Cloud

Posted on October 31, 2014 by Colm Keegan

When IT organizations start being compared to Facebook, in terms of application availability, it is clear that business application owners are becoming increasingly less tolerant of ANY application downtime. In fact during a recent Storage Swiss webinar, “HA and DR…

Tagged with: Cloud, Disaster recovery, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SAN, SIOS Technology
Posted in Blog

The four quadrants of Virtualized Flash use

Posted on August 28, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

There is little debate that flash has an important role to play in the virtualized environment. Its high performance, low latency attributes make it ideal for data centers looking to solve the infamous storage I/O ‘blender’ that a dense virtual…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Hybrid, Latency, performance, Pure, SAN, Server Cache, Virtualization
Posted in Video

Storage Q&A: StarWind and StorageSwiss Answer Hyper-V Storage Questions

Posted on August 4, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

A company needs to upgrade its IT equipment to keep up with increasing storage demand. The question is, “Will the new technology that’s supposed to save me money actually cost me money?” Joining Storage Switzerland Lead Analyst in our recent…

Tagged with: High Availability, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, SAN, SDS, SMB, Software Defined Storage, Starwind Software, Virtual, Virtual machine
Posted in Storage Q&A

Is Atlantis USX the future of Software Defined Storage?

Posted on July 9, 2014 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) has certainly caught the attention of IT planners looking to reduce the cost of storage by liberating them from traditional storage hardware lock-in. As SDS evolves the promise of lower storage CAPEX, increased deployment and architecture…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Atlantis, Data Protection, NAS, RAM, SAN, SDS, Software Defined Storage
Posted in Product Analysis

Server Side Storage, defined for Hyper-V

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Many businesses are adopting hypervisor platforms like Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization technology to reduce their server virtualization total cost of ownership. Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) and corporations with multiple remote office locations, in particular, are leveraging the economies of…