When trying to measure storage performance, IT professionals often concentrate on IOPS. But IOPS may be the least valuable performance measurement statistic available. Most data centers can’t generate enough consistent IOPS for them to be a relevant way to compare…
Tegile Briefing Note Of all the “modern” data center applications, Splunk seems to be one of the more popular among more traditional data centers. This is due to Splunk’s specific use case: log data from machines. Almost every enterprise has…
The allure of the public cloud may be wearing off. The theoretical consistent cost of the cloud has proven to be false. CIOs constantly complain about the surprise bill from their cloud provider at the end of the quarter. The…
The cloud, both compute and storage, is appealing to IT administrators because they buy the cloud “as a service.” That means an organization can gain access to compute and storage resources as they need them and only when they need…
Organizations relying on VMware are ready to move beyond basic service consolidation. They want to establish a private cloud if they offer IT “as-a-service.” The challenge for data centers is how do they solve the problem of providing high performance…
A private cloud should be the ultimate goal of the software defined data center (SDC). It transforms the data center into a self-provisioned, highly automated organism, that is more responsive to the needs of the organization while driving down the…
Flash is the go-to performance option when IT professionals face a storage performance challenge. The problem is that the price of flash is still at a premium versus what you can buy traditional hard disk technology for. And the reality…
Organizations relying on VMware are ready to move beyond basic service consolidation. They want to establish a private cloud if they offer IT “as-a-service.” The challenge for data centers is how do they solve the problem of providing high performance…
There has been a lot of hype around all-flash and hybrid flash arrays over the past few years, but how are data centers using the technology to solve real storage management issues? Listen as Storage Switzerland’s Lead Analyst George Crump…
What is Your Rake Moment? There is a rake moment in almost every storage administrator’s life. A rake moment occurs when a storage problem takes them off-guard and forces them to scramble to resolve the issue. Like stepping on a…
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