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Storage QoS – A New Requirement for Shared Storage

In the virtualized data center shared storage is truly shared. Each attached server host may have dozens of virtual machines all accessing the same shared storage system at the same time. This creates a new requirement for shared storage systems,

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The Evolution of Cloud File Sharing Services

It seems that every week we hear about another company offering a cloud-based file sync and share product for businesses, SMBs, consumers, pro-sumers, anyone – and everyone. Even a battery company recently announced it was getting into this business. One

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Storage Sprawl – How Flash Let Us Down

As we discussed in our last column “Why Is Storage Hardware Sprawl Worse Than Ever?”, toward the end of the last decade (2007-2010) the data center began to tap into the abundance of compute power available to it but providing

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Virtualized Cloud Acceleration

During a recent Storage Switzerland webinar, we discussed the need for organizations to consider software based approaches to accelerating WAN performance. Interestingly, our polling question revealed that 31% of the webinar participants were trying to determine why there is even

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How Do I Integrate All-Flash into My HDD Data Center?

In our webinar, “Overcoming the RoadBlocks to the All-Flash Data Center”, one of the questions that came up is how to integrate an All-Flash Array into the data center. It’s not our position that you should throw out all your

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2014 Storage – Scale Up, Scale Out or Converge?

As we start 2014, storage is changing. The familiar dual controller, scale up architecture is potentially being replaced by a new set of architectures. Storage professionals now have to consider storage systems that can scale out or converge themselves with

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Top Backup Takeaways from 2013

As we usher in 2014, industry prognosticators are publishing their predictions about what will be the hot trends in the New Year. While backup technology may not be towards the top of this list, there were some interesting developments that

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On Demand Webinar – How To Stop Storage Hardware Sprawl

Storage in the data center has evolved from islands of server attached storage to shared networked storage. But in both cases storage needed to be specifically designed for the workload it was on. Even in the so-called shared storage environment,

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Software Defined Peak WAN Performance

As a long time player in the market, Silver Peak is making it a lot easier, both financially and politically, for storage and virtual administrators to accelerate data replication performance. In the past, storage administrators used to have to get

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How to Use SSD to Rescue Performance without Breaking the Bank

IT professionals wear many hats and are constantly responding to the emergency of the moment. When performance problems appear in the virtual environment the default reaction is to throw hardware at the problem. That means “throwing” premium priced flash SSD at it. But this approach can lead to buying too much or too little SSD, which either wastes money or doesn’t effectively solve the performance problem. In this article Storage Switzerland’s lead analyst George Crump, leads you through the process of qualifying your virtual environment’s SSD suitability.

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