A cache in a manufacturing environment is an intermediate store of components or partially assembled products, often referred to as “in-process inventory”, that serves to make the overall production process more efficient. In a computer system, caches, also called “buffers”,…
Over the past six years, server virtualization has greatly simplified the deployment of applications in the enterprise. Applications are no longer locked into a single server and can be migrated to other servers, in real time, to satisfy dynamically changing…
As one of the two primary disk drive manufacturers in the world, Western Digital certainly knows storage products and they’re in a position to be a value leader in this NAS market as well. As a first server, WD’s line…
Storage Switzerland is at re:Invent 2013, Amazon Web Services’ global customer and partner conference in Las Vegas. The completely sold out event features over 175 technical sessions, training bootcamps, hands-on labs, and a hackathon. Why is Storage Switzerland covering re:Invent?…
Storage management tools have sometimes been viewed as a “nice to have” tool by many IT infrastructure planners, however, given all the complexities with efficiently managing resources in today’s highly virtualized server environments, it is quickly turning into a must…
From high density virtualization to software-defined infrastructures, changes in technology are coming fast. And keeping up with these changes is pushing IT staffs in the real world data center to the breaking point. This means detailed storage design and planning…
The modern data center is no longer confined to four walls. Instead, data is highly distributed across remote branch offices, end-user laptops and even on devices like smartphones and tablets. The data protection process and the hardware and software that…
Are you drowning in unstructured data? Can a private cloud, object based storage system be the solution? Watch our on demand webinar “5 Reasons Object Storage Can Solve Unstructured Data Problems” and get your head above water! According to industry…
Companies are putting flash into application servers to accelerate performance hungry use cases like web scale and big social media environments. Now, users in the more traditional enterprise space are looking to server-side flash as well, to address their performance…
In the modern data center, storage system upgrades are rarely caused by a storage system running out of capacity; rather, it more often occurs due to an unanticipated lack of performance or exorbitant maintenance prices. In fact, performance related upgrades…
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