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Dell: “We can’t just deliver components”

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Eric Slack

Big Data, the Internet of Things and a host of other challenges are facing companies today. But according to Mike Davis, Director of Marketing for Storage Solutions, when Dell and their partners meet with these companies they can’t just sell…

Tagged with: Big data, Converged Infrastructure, Dell, Dell World, Flash, Hybrid, Internet of Things, NAS, Scale-Out, SMB, Storage
Posted in Video

Seagate’s Kinetic Drives reduce Object Storage costs – now GA

Posted on November 3, 2014 by Eric Slack

After a one-year incubation, Seagate’s Kinetic Open Storage Platform is now generally available. It features disk drives that communicate with applications over Ethernet, using a key-value architecture and RESTful APIs, instead of traditional protocols like SCSI or SATA. What’s different…

Tagged with: Capacity, Hard Drive, JBOD, Object, Object Storage, Scale-Out, Seagate, TCO
Posted in Blog

Non-disruptive Flash – How important is it?

Posted on October 27, 2014 by George Crump

Recently EMC announced that they were upgrading the storage software that drives their XtremIO to be able to compress and deduplicate data. This is an important addition, since not all data benefits from deduplication, databases being a good example. But…

Tagged with: All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Compression, Data compression, Deduplication, EMC, Flash, Scale-Out, XtremIO
Posted in Blog

Designing Highly Scalable Storage for Dense Virtual Machine Environments

Posted on October 16, 2014 by George Crump

We will discuss the testing methodology and scalability results for 4 & 8 node clustered Hitachi NAS Platform 4000 systems yielding 15,000 VMs in real-world enterprise environments. The test establishes linear performance scalability as nodes are added to the cluster,…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Lab Report

Storage Short: How Dense can a VM Environment get?

Posted on October 15, 2014 by George Crump

VM density is something companies are striving for as they work to lower the TCO of their virtualized environments. The question is, how dense can you get; how many VMs can your successfully run on each host? In this Storage…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in StorageShort

SlideShare – 5 ways your Backup Design can impact Virtualized Data Protection

Posted on October 14, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Virtualization specific backup applications, like Veeam, are the fastest growing segment of the data protection market, and for good reason. They promise to provide better, faster and more accurate data protection, while almost eliminating application recovery times. But the challenge…

Why a 15,000 VM NAS Test is important to all Users

Posted on October 13, 2014 by Eric Slack

In a recent test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an enterprise NAS system was able to successfully support 15,000 VMs. This is certainly an impressive number, and a performance spec that some larger enterprises may actually need.…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog

Storage Short: How to support 15,000 VMs on a NAS

Posted on October 10, 2014 by Eric Slack

Running a high-density virtualization environment on a NAS box is something many companies assume won’t work. But we wanted to try. In this lab test run by HDS and audited by Storage Switzerland, an 8-node Hitachi HNAS system reached over…

Tagged with: Dense VM, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyperscale, NAS, Network-attached storage, Scalability, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
Posted in StorageShort

ExaGrid delivers Veeam Integrated Disk Backup

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Veeam Backup and Replication brings many advanced data protection and recovery features to virtualized environments. And backup appliances have become a popular way to efficiently store, recover and electronically vault virtualized data for disaster recovery (DR) purposes. The challenge is…

Is Dedupe Overrated?

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Eric Slack

Advanced data reduction technologies are central to the purpose built backup appliance (PBBA) market segment. They shrink the amount of data that’s actually committed to storage and help make these relatively fixed capacity devices feasible. But data reduction only provides…