Various industry sources estimate that data is doubling approximately every two years and the largest subset of that growth is coming from unstructured data. User files, images, rich multimedia, machine sensor data and anything that lives outside of a database…
Today, many organizations are considering Microsoft’s Hyper-V virtualization platform as an alternative to market behemoth, VMware. But the key to fully delivering on the lower total cost of ownership (TCO) value proposition that Hyper-V offers, is commoditizing the storage infrastructure…
Whether you are planning to upgrade your current storage system or getting ready for a complete storage refresh, today’s IT planner has more storage choices than ever. A key decision is how you will access critical storage services like volume…
Whether you are planning to upgrade your current storage system or getting ready for a complete storage refresh, today’s IT planner has more storage choices than ever. A key decision is how you will access critical storage services like volume…
With soaring data growth occurring across all industries, IT planners need to rethink how they design and implement enterprise storage technology. Traditional NAS and SAN platforms have served as the bulwark of data center storage capacity for decades, however, storing…
SNIA’s DSI Conference can help with all the hats you wear Things really changed after the financial downturn a few years ago. First, IT staffs got thinner at the height (depths) of the recession and people had to pick up…
What is the role of data protection in today’s increasingly virtualized world? Should organizations look towards specialized backup technologies that integrate at the hypervisor or application layer or should they continue utilizing traditional backup solutions to safeguard business data? Or…
Where do you go when you need to learn about a new technology such as software defined storage? How about Hyper-converged infrastructure? Or all-flash arrays? Where do you get information on a technology? One place to start is with the…
Hyper-V is emerging as an alternative to VMware in many environments, but those data centers choosing the Hyper-V path to virtualization nirvana must still deal with storage issues. As it does in VMware environments, Software Defined Storage holds great promise for Hyper-V administrators looking to lower storage costs while increasing storage performance. In this article George Crump, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, covers how software defined storage can be optimized for the Hyper-V environment to insure consistent application storage performance while maintaining Hyper-V’s cost advantage.
Software Defined Storage is an emerging category of solutions that’s designed to decrease the cost of delivering performance and capacity. It does this by abstracting storage software services from the physical hardware. This allows a variety of storage hardware to be selected…
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