Our latest data center visit was to a Texas based cloud provider focused on providing compute and hosting services. While they are one of the largest providers in the market, what makes them unique is their security. They provide one…
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Data Center Visit – Cloud Provider vs. Converged Storage
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Provider, Convergence, Fibre Channel, Next Generation Data Center, Shared Storage
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Overcoming the challenges of Server Side Network Storage
Server side network storage (SSNS) is attracting the attention of many data center planners. It aggregates internal server storage and presents that storage as a sharable virtual volume. Virtual machines access this shared volume no matter what host they are…
Tagged with: Converged System, Data Protection, Gridstore, Infrastructure, Network Storage, RAID, Server-side, Shared Storage, SSNS, Virtual machine, VM
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A new kind of company – SanDisk and Fusion-io
The news this week that SanDisk is buying Fusion-io for over $1 Billion dollars is something to pay attention to. If the acquisition goes through, SanDisk becomes a formidable competitor to a wide variety of companies in the storage and…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Buy-out, Flash, Fusion-io, OEM, SanDisk, Shared Storage, SSD
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Clustered HA Storage for the masses
Many organizations rely on large databases, such as SQL Server, SAP, and Oracle, to run their most mission critical business applications. But the cost of implementing application high availability (HA) and continuous data protection through a clustered storage infrastructure in…
Tagged with: Cluster, High Availability, SAN, SANLess, Shared Storage, SIOS, SQL
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Server-Side, Converged Storage vs. Shared Storage
As I discussed at a recent event and covered in one of our top-read articles, “How Will Storage Controller Technology Evolve in 2014?“, this may be a year of significant change in the way we architect storage. There are three…
Tagged with: Converged Storage, Hypervisor, Server-side, Shared Storage, Virtual machine, VSAN
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2014 Storage – Scale Up, Scale Out or Converge?
As we start 2014, storage is changing. The familiar dual controller, scale up architecture is potentially being replaced by a new set of architectures. Storage professionals now have to consider storage systems that can scale out or converge themselves with…
Tagged with: Architecture, Capacity, Clustering, Converge, Converged Architecture, Latency, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Shared Storage, Virtual
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