Every year we look at the articles and other content posted on StorageSwiss.com (this year over 800 pieces) to see which topics generated the most interest. As we mentioned in our blog counting down numbers 11-15, flash storage was one…
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StorageSwiss Top Articles of 2014 – Part 2
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, Flash, GRO, MLC, NAND Flash, RPO, RTO, SLC, SLO, SQL, SSD, Unstructured data, VRO
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Analyst Blog: The Data Protection Network Gap
Storage Switzerland has been tracking an interesting trend, or maybe lack of a trend, in data protection over the last 10 months; the decay in the quality of the data protection network as compared to the continual improvement of the…
Tagged with: Backup, CBT, Change Block Tracking, Data Protection, Hyper-V, Oracle, Recovery, SQL
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
All-Flash Arrays vs. Performance Management
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
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Who needs Cloud Storage – Violin delivers pay as you grow Flash
One of the challenges that every IT planner is trying to figure out is what size, both in terms of capacity and performance, storage system they should invest in. They need to make sure that the storage system will not…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Deduplication, Encryption, Flash, Hyper-V, Migration, Mirroring, performance, Scale-Out, SQL, Violin
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Flash-based ZD-XL SQL Accelerator adds Virtualization, BPE and Blade Server Support
Speeding up mission critical applications running on databases like MS SQL Server can pay immediate dividends in a number of ways, such as increasing transaction-based revenue or improving analytics. For many companies, the way to do this has been with…
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
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
How Do I Know My SQL Server Environment is Ready for SSD?
SQL Databases of almost any size should be a top consideration for SSD integration. Because of the granularity of the database structure small components of the database can be moved to SSD, reducing the overall SSD investment. In this article, Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst, George Crump discusses how to determine which of those componets should be on SSD. This report will show that a surprisingly small amount of SSD can provide a cost effective, more scaleable, higher performing database for the entire environment.
Learn:
Which Storage Statistics Can Help You Determine SQL SSD Readiness
Which component of your SQL environment should be on SSD
The ROI of SSD Investment for SQL Environments
Webinar – Customer Use Cases: Accelerating Protection & Recovery of Business Critical Apps
In this Webinar Storage Switzerland speaks with two IT Managers to discuss the challenges they’re having around data protection and application availability. They tell us how they leveraged Nimble Storage Data Protection Solutions to resolve those challenges. Learn what they…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud computing, Customer relationship management, Data Protection, Nimble Storage, Oracle, SQL
Posted in Webinar
Posted in Webinar
What’s The Best Flash Acceleration Strategy For SQL Server?
Simply adding flash to provide more storage IOPS doesn’t guarantee better application performance, steps must be taken to ensure that the right data is in flash when it’s needed. Accelerating applications like SQL Server that can have data sets TBs…
Tagged with: Cache, Database, Microsoft SQL Server, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, Random-access memory, SQL, SQL Server
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
What’s The Best Flash Acceleration Strategy For SQL Server?
Simply adding flash to provide more storage IOPS doesn’t guarantee better application performance, steps must be taken to ensure that the right data is in flash when it’s needed. Accelerating applications like SQL Server that can have data sets TBs…
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