Flash is replacing hard disk drives (HDDs) in more and more environments, and not just as boot drives for PCs and laptops. Enterprises are turning to a new class of high performance SATA-based drive form-factor SSDs to accelerate databases, push…
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Zetta No-Appliance Cloud Backup now supports Full Image Backup
Zetta has been offering a different kind of cloud-based backup since their inception five years ago. Their “direct-to-cloud” backup solution doesn’t use any hardware on-site, just their software which runs on application servers and file servers in the data center.…
Hybrid Arrays in an All-Flash World
As the price of flash continues to come down, I am often asked by IT professionals what the role for hybrid arrays will be since all-flash arrays are beginning to reach price parity with high performance disk based systems. As…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Hybrid array, Hybrid Storage, SSD, Tegile
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HGST upgrades Flash Acceleration hardware and software products
HGST, a division of longtime disk drive manufacturer Western Digital, announced updates for two products in the application acceleration market. FlashMAX III is the latest generation of half-height, half-length PCIe accelerator cards designed for high performance enterprise and hyper-scale environments.…
Tagged with: Deduplication, Disk Drive, Flash, Flash Acceleration, HGST, PCIe, performance, SSD, VeloBit, Western Digital
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Storage Wrap Episode 003 – Podcast
The Flash Memory Summit just wrapped up in Santa Clara. The StorageSwiss team joins me to talk about the event and some of the big news coming from vendors at the show. Click Here To Sign Up For Our Newsletter
Tagged with: flash memory summit, flash storage, solid state storage, SSD, ssd storage
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BitMicro’s 6TB PCIe provides high-capacity Server-side Flash option
BitMicro is announcing a new line of PCIe flash cards to address a need in the market for higher capacity server-side SSDs. Historically focused on military and industrial applications, the MaxIO SSD line should give BitMicro a solution that also…
Tagged with: BitMicro, Flash, High Capacity, IOPS, PCIe, Server-side, Solid State, SSD
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Nimble’s Adaptive Flash extends the range of Hybrid Arrays
Choosing a storage system has always involved tradeoffs, often between performance and capacity. This has been the case with flash-based systems where buyers have typically decided on hybrid arrays when capacity was more important and all-flash arrays when performance was…
Tagged with: Adaptive Flash, All-Flash, Capacity, CASL, Cluster, Flash, Nimble, performance, SSD
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Storage Q&A: “The New Requirements of Backup Hardware” with Drobo and StorageSwiss
Backup, backup, backup: it’s what everyone’s talking about these days. You have to save all those files, for one reason or the other, and probably because someone is telling you that you have to save those files. I recently sat…
Tagged with: Backup, Change Block Tracking, Drobo, Recovery, Recovery in Place, SSD, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization, Webinar
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Intelligent File Sync and Share by Oxygen Cloud
For the past few years, a wide variety of vendors have come to market with file sync and share solutions that were designed to replace consumer solutions that had made their way into the enterprise. Most addressed key shortfalls by…
Virtualized Hybrid Disk Backup for Veeam
Disk based backup has become a staple in many data center environments. But now thanks to advanced recovery capabilities from virtualized backup applications like Veeam, Unitrend’s PHD Virtual and Dell’s vRanger, more is being asked of disk backup systems. For…
Tagged with: Backup, Drobo, HDD, Hybrid, Recovery in Place, SSD, Veeam, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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