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Are PCIe SSDs Breaking Your Storage Network? – and how to stop it

Posted on October 7, 2013 by George Crump

olid state drive (SSD) solutions using flash are becoming the ‘go to’ options for addressing storage performance bottlenecks. And within that technology category, PCIe based SSDs could represent the state of the art. By locating the flash in the server…

Tagged with: Hard disk drive, High Availability, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage area network, Virident, VMware
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Asigra – All-in-One-Backup – From the Enterprise to the Cloud

Posted on September 25, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Protecting data is becoming increasingly complex and fraught with risk. Today, business data resides on everything from centralized, virtualized server infrastructure to public cloud software applications, to end user mobile edge devices. Finding a way to reliably and efficiently protect…

Tagged with: Agentless, Archive, Asigra, Backup, Cloud, NAS, Recovery, SAN, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Good Migrations – Moving Data from SAN to SAN

Posted on July 18, 2013 by George Crump

Either as part of a normal storage refresh cycle or when consolidating storage assets after a merger, almost every data center will eventually need to migrate data from one storage system to another. The problem is that data migrations are…

Tagged with: Data center, Data migration, FalconStor, Migration, Operating system, SAN, Storage area network
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What Is GEN 5 Fibre?

Posted on April 3, 2013 by George Crump

Despite the best marketing efforts of various forms of IP based storage, Fibre Channel continues to gain momentum in the enterprise. The growth in large, real-time databases and the increasing VM density per physical host, as well as the proliferation…

Tagged with: Brocade, Fibre Channel, Gen 5, ISCSI, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network
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OCZ’s VXL Solves the “DAS Problem” of PCIe Flash

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Eric Slack

Storage problems are ‘taking the fun’ out of virtualization. Legacy storage systems can’t keep up with the performance demands of highly random workloads that server virtualization environments generate. Because of this, companies are seeing these deployments make for much lower VM…

Tagged with: flash storage, ISCSI, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VMware
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The Benefits of a Flash Only, SAN-less Virtual Architecture

Posted on September 20, 2012 by George Crump

Shared storage using either a storage area network (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS) device enables many key features of the virtual server environment, such as virtual machine (VM) migration, distributed resource management and site recovery management. As a result…