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Hybrid Storage Needs SSD Cache Flexibility

Posted on August 6, 2013 by George Crump

While specialized all-flash storage systems grab the headlines, hybrid storage systems are increasingly becoming the workhorses of the data center, hosting the majority of applications, virtual machines and file shares. To expand the number of workloads that they can support…

Tagged with: Cache, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Hybrid array, Hybrid drive, Nexsan, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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Transform Backup Data into an Information Advantage

Posted on July 31, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Backup infrastructure is somewhat like an expensive insurance policy. Large premiums are expended on backup hardware, software and people resources to collect, store and protect business information in the event a “claim”, or in this instance, a data recovery event…

Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, Dropbox, ExaGrid, Hardware, HP, Site Management, Storage
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The Future of Backup is an Architecture Not an Application

Posted on July 25, 2013 by George Crump

While the applications that protect data have vastly improved over the last 20 years, they still often struggle to keep up with the technical challenges of data growth, shrinking backup and recovery windows and demands for greater disaster resilience. At…

Tagged with: Backup, Data Domain, EMC, Storage, Storage Switzerland, Top10-2013, Virtual machine
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Big Data Demands Big Changes to Legacy Backup Licensing

Posted on July 11, 2013 by Colm Keegan

It is no surprise that backup related expenditures represent a major cost center for most data center environments. As data grows, so grows the need to increase the hardware and software resources for protecting this information. Denser disk and tape…

Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Big data, Data deduplication, Hardware, Storage
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Object Storage Industry Veteran Cleversafe now Supports Hadoop

Posted on July 10, 2013 by Eric Slack

OBS has been a hot topic of late, and rightly so, it’s a technology whose time has come. The advantages it brings to companies facing extreme data growth, often referred to as ‘hyper-scale’ environments, are pretty remarkable. Basically, object storage…

Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, Hadoop, Hardware, MapReduce, Object Storage, Storage
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How Does Shutterfly Keep 80PB of Pictures Safe and Available?

Posted on July 1, 2013 by Eric Slack

Shutterfly is the market leader in digital, personalized photo products, currently serving millions of customers who benefit from unlimited, secure (and free) storage, plus a 100 percent happiness guarantee. They help customers turn their pictures into lasting keepsakes, such as…

Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, Disk array, Hardware, Object Storage, RAID, Shutterfly, Storage
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The Role Of Enterprise Backup In The Modern Data Center

Posted on June 11, 2013 by George Crump

Data has changed. There is more of it, it’s larger and is no longer all located on a single storage device in the middle of the data center. As a result backup, an already challenging process, is now reaching the…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud storage, HP, NetApp, OpenVMS, Storage, TCO, Virtual machine
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Overcoming The Challenges With SSD Reliability

Posted on June 3, 2013 by George Crump

Articles posted on the Storage Switzerland web site that focus on SSD Reliability are consistently among the top read articles on our site. Clearly there is concern about using the technology in the enterprise and IT planners want to know…

Tagged with: Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Hardware, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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What Is A Hyperscale Data Center?

Posted on May 20, 2013 by George Crump

Hyperscale data centers have architectures that are designed to provide a single, massively scalable compute architecture. The architecture is typically made up of small, individual servers, called nodes, that provide compute, storage and networking. These nodes are then clustered together…

Tagged with: Hardware, Hyperscale, PCI Express, SMART Storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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Unstructured Data Storage For The Mid-Market

Posted on April 26, 2013 by George Crump

Unstructured data (data that’s outside of databases), is growing at an out-of-control pace in organizations of all sizes. Large cloud service providers and some larger enterprises have dealt with this challenge by embracing object storage. For smaller data centers and…

Tagged with: Data center, Exablox, Hardware, OneSystem, RAID, Storage, Unstructured data
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