Maintaining consistent application performance has become increasingly challenging. While there are fewer physical servers to support in the data center, in many environments there are dozens, hundreds or even thousands of virtual machines (VMs) accessing the same shared storage resources.…
At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit (AIS) this year, someone brought up a blog I’d written after a previous AIS event where an LSI executive said they had a RAID stack that was 25 years old. What popped into my mind…
At the beginning of this year, WD acquired Arkeia, a company with a long history in the primary backup software market. Arkeia was known in the industry as a technology leader in deduplication, with technology they acquired from Kadena Systems…
In a recent Storage Switzerland write up, “Is Real-time Tiering the Next Big Thing in Storage?”, we explored Dot Hill’s AssuredSAN Pro 5000 disk array systems and their interesting data tiering technology. Dot Hill is a disk array manufacturer that’s…
Storage caching enables the use of a very fast storage area, typically flash, to intelligently store the most frequently accessed data objects and improve application performance. Server-side caching uses one of a variety of flash based SSDs internal to the…
Dramatic increases in the number of VMs per host allows for greater ROI and TCO but creates a storage I/O nightmare. Vendors have embraced flash as the answer and have almost overwhelmed IT Planners with options. In this indepth report Storage Switzerland’s Founder and Lead Analyst, George Crump, looks at the various flash options and helps you determine the best path for your data center.
Maximizing the value of a VMware caching solution involves more than developing algorithms to determine the hottest data and figuring out ways to keep that data in the cache. It also means getting the most out of that expensive flash…
Content, especially large data objects like videos and pictures, is the storage ‘elephant in the room’ for cloud providers. It’s big and can be overwhelming for their traditional storage infrastructures. But it’s also manageable with the right strategy and the…
Nimble Leverages Cisco UCS Partnership To Differentiate Itself Nimble was one of the first hybrid storage appliances on the market (hard disk capacity and SSDs in the same purpose built chassis) and they’ve shown impressive growth since their inception. Currently…
At Storage Networking World (SNW) this year in Long Beach, CA, Storage Switzerland caught up with Storage Networking Industry Assn (SNIA) officers Wayne Adams and Molly Rector, to talk about what the organization has been doing recently and where things…
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