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Micron Invests Big to Drive Flash Innovation Outside of the Box

Posted on February 27, 2015 by Eric Slack

Fifty percent of enterprise data centers are leaving the big storage companies, according to Micron VP, Darren Thomas, and chip vendors like Micron can’t simply rely on these OEMs any more to sustain and grow their businesses. This was a…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Big data, Briefing, Flash, HDD, Hyperscale, Micron, NAND, Software Defined, SSD, Unstructured data
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StorageShort: Copy Data Methods

Posted on February 25, 2015 by George Crump

2015 is going to be a big year for Copy Data. We expect every major data protection vendor to release some form of copy data management solution to the market this year. But vendors will take different approaches to deliver…

Tagged with: Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Analytics, Data Protection, Managability, SDS, Software Defined, Test/Dev
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Analyst Blog: Do you have a Private Cloud or Just Virtualized Servers?

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Eric Slack

IT in companies of all sizes is facing competition from the cloud. Based on a self-service, automated provisioning model, public clouds enjoy efficiencies and economics that few corporate data centers can match today. But internal IT has a distinct advantage,…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Converged, Data Protection, Flash, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, JBVS, performance, SME, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM
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Storage FAQ: The State of Flash in 2015

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

Storage Switzerland held a well-attended webinar with Tegile called “The State of Flash in 2015”. Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump and Tegile System’s Chief Marketing Officer Narayan Venkat review some follow-up questions to the webinar. Question 1: “What is the…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Analytics, Big data, Flash, Hybrid, Hypervisor, I/O, Infrastructure, performance, Software Defined, Tegile
Posted in Storage Q&A

What’s wrong with using Snapshots for Data Protection?

Posted on January 26, 2015 by Eric Slack

Snapshots are a standard feature of most storage systems today. They offer a remarkable ability to save a file at specific points in time without actually making a copy of it; in fact, they’re also referred to as “point in…

Tagged with: Data Protection, Metadata, Nexenta, performance, Replication, Snapshots, Software Defined
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The Top 5 StorageSwiss Articles for 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014 by George Crump

This is it, the final entry of the year for Storage Switzerland and where we announce the top 5 articles for 2014. But before we do, we want to wish all our readers a safe New Year’s Eve and a…

Tagged with: Cache, Efficiency, Hyper-converged, Latency, server-side storage, Software Defined, Storage Controller, VSAN
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Storage Opinion: Storage Evolves thanks to the Processor not the Business Model

Posted on December 5, 2014 by Eric Slack

Robin Harris over at Storage Mojo recently wrote about the future of legacy storage vendors in the face of low-margin commodity hardware and a primal force in their industry – the cloud. He cites the fate of the minicomputer and…

Tagged with: Commodity Hardware, Density, Opinion, Purpose Built Backup Appliance, Scale Up, Software Defined
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Briefing Note: Coho Data announces Site-To-Site Replication

Posted on December 5, 2014 by George Crump

A big challenge for a startup in the storage space is catching up to the legacy vendors in terms of features, with one of the most critical and apparently most difficult to complete being site-to-site replication. This feature allows the…

Tagged with: Coho Data, Compression, Encryption, Replication, Scale-Out, Site-to-Site, Snapshot, Software Defined, Sync, Virtual machine
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Is Commodity Storage Hardware really less expensive?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by George Crump

In his recent blog, Hitachi Data Systems’ CTO, Hu Yoshida, discusses the top 10 business trends that will impact IT in 2015. Number four on his list is “Software Defined Everything”. One of the theoretical selling points of software defined…

Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Cloud, Commodity Hardware, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Software Defined, Trends
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How Traditional Data Centers should use the Cloud

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Some corporate financial planners are pointing towards the use of hybrid cloud solutions as a way to reduce storage costs. The idea is to move redundant copies of information off expensive onsite primary storage to lower cost storage in the…