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Primary Data provides Virtualized Data for Virtualized Infrastructures

Posted on November 25, 2014 by Colm Keegan

If Primary Data can do to data storage what VMware did to server computing, there could be a titanic shift in the storage industry in the coming years. Primary Data’s “data virtualization” platform is designed to liberate information from the…

Tagged with: Data Abstration, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Metadata, Primary Data, Software Defined, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Using EMC RecoverPoint to improve DR testing

Posted on November 24, 2014 by Colm Keegan

One of the key components of any disaster recovery plan is to verify that plan and make sure it works. The problem is that these tests are expensive, are not real world and are performed infrequently. In this article, we…

Fiber Mountain’s Software-Defined Networking lowers Network Latency and Cost

Posted on November 18, 2014 by Eric Slack

Networks have historically been constructed using a hierarchical topology of rack and row switches connected into large ‘directors’ at the data center core. This architecture generates a number of ‘hops’ as packets traverse the network from edge to core to…

Tagged with: Fiber Mountain, I/O Virtualization, Infrastructure, IOV, Latency, Network Interface Card, NIC, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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Dell World 2014 – Michael Dell’s opening Press Conference

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Eric Slack

It’s been a year since Dell became a private company. At his opening press conference at Dell World 2014 Michael Dell sounded like a CEO who likes coming to work every day, no longer subjected to Wall Street’s fixation over…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Converge, DAS, Dell, Dell World, Disk array, Hybrid, ISCSI, Software Defined
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SQL High Availability at low-cost Cloud prices

Posted on October 22, 2014 by Colm Keegan

Many organizations are considering the cloud for enhancing SQL application availability and business continuity. This is especially true for those small to medium sized businesses that don’t have the budgets to implement redundant data center infrastructure to support high availability…

Tagged with: Cloud, Clustering, Disaster recovery, dr, HA, High Availability, Hybrid Cloud, MS-SQL, SIOS Technology, Software Defined
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Seagate’s CSS offers a White box with a Logo

Posted on September 19, 2014 by Eric Slack

At the Next-Gen Storage Summit, Storage Switzerland had a chance to talk with Seagate’s Cloud Systems and Solutions (CSS) group, a new division that came out of their acquisitions of disk array manufacturer Xyratex and eVault, the cloud backup provider.…

Tagged with: Cloud, Commodity Hardware, Converged Architecture, Infrastructure, Next Generation Storage Summit, Seagate, Software Defined
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All-Flash Arrays vs. Performance Management

Posted on September 3, 2014 by George Crump

Optimizing storage performance is almost an art. One of the earliest papers I wrote for Storage Switzerland was “Visualizing SSD Readiness“, which articulated how to determine if your application could benefit from implementing solid state disk (SSD). It also discussed…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Flash, Infrastructure, performance, Server Side Flash, Software Defined, Solid State Disk, SQL, SSD, Virtualization
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Memory Bus Flash delivers vSAN Performance Acceleration

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Software defined storage solutions like vSAN are gaining increased attention. But vSAN systems can only support one flash device. The challenge is one flash device may not be enough to handle all the I/O throughput from multiple applications. In this…

Tagged with: Architecture, CPU, Diablo, DIMM, Flash, MCS, Memory, Memory Bus Flash, Memory Channel Storage, Software Defined, VSAN
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Nexenta explains the economics behind Software-Defined Storage

Posted on August 29, 2014 by Eric Slack

Nexenta is a software-only, software-defined storage (SDS) solution that enables users to create storage systems with the x86-based hardware of their choice and disk or flash-based arrays, with support recently added for all-flash arrays. Based on the ZFS file system,…

Tagged with: CIFS, Fibre Channel, ISCSI, Nexenta, Object Storage, Red Hat, SDS, Software Defined, VMware, VSAN, Windows
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Performance Management is Broken

Posted on August 25, 2014 by Charlie Hodges

Performance management in today’s data center environment is broken. Between physical server silos, virtualized infrastructure, storage resources and networking devices, data center managers have to navigate through a plethora of management interfaces to diagnose application performance issues. The lack of…

Tagged with: performance, Software Defined, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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