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Solving the Software Defined Storage Bottleneck – Mellanox Briefing Note

Posted on September 25, 2018 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) abstracts commodity storage hardware so that it can be used in a scale-out architecture, but this can create a bottleneck between the CPU and the storage media. In many cases, the latency of hard disk drives…

Tagged with: Cloud, CPU, Flash, Mellanox, NVMe, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, Virtualization
Posted in Briefing Note

The Future Data Center – Live from Hitachi Next!

Posted on September 17, 2018 by George Crump

What comes after Data Center Modernization? The future data center is smart. But what is a smart data center, how do you create a smart data center and why would you want to? We answer all of these questions on…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
Posted in Webinar

How to Reduce the TCO of Data Protection Infrastructure

Posted on September 5, 2018 by George Crump

The growth of primary storage has an exponential effect on data protection infrastructure. Demands to protect data more frequently, recover faster and retain data longer promise to make the situation worse. The total cost of ownership (TCO) of the data…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, Hypervisor, Replication, Rubrik, TCO, Virtualization, VM
Posted in Blog

SlideShare: What’s Breaking Your VMware Backups? And How You Can Fix Them Quickly

Posted on August 31, 2018 by George Crump

Backing up VMware successfully has always been a challenge. The introduction of the cloud ever increasing scale of VMware infrastructure continues to give backups fits and makes it even harder. Please join George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland and…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
Posted in Slideshare

Will Cloud Backup Really Reduce Your Backup Investment?

Posted on August 28, 2018 by George Crump

Organizations make significant investments in their infrastructure. As production data continues to grow, the exponential impact on backup storage threatens to deplete IT budgets. The cloud promises to reduce on-premises backup infrastructure but most solutions only use the cloud to…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, DPaaS, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
Posted in Blog

Does Your Backup Application Support VMware on AWS?

Posted on August 27, 2018 by George Crump

Amazon, through its VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) service enables organizations to run VMware in Amazon AWS. Organizations can use the service for disaster recovery or to migrate applications to the cloud. The transfer between on-premises and VMC is seamless…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, Virtualization, VM, VMware
Posted in Blog

Why Does the Network Team Want SDN?

Posted on August 27, 2018 by George Crump

The network team has a lot invested in traditional networking and may resist the move to a software-defined network (SDN), but given the pace of growth and expansion of the data center, they may not have an option. The network…

Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
Posted in Blog

Why Do Storage and vAdmin Teams Want SDN?

Posted on August 22, 2018 by George Crump

While it should seem like someone else’s concern, no other group within IT should want software-defined networking (SDN) more than the storage administration and virtualization vAdmin groups. SDN’s promise to all the storage and vAdmin teams is to perform their…

Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyper-V, Hyperconvergence, SDN, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Creating a Real-time Storage Network

Posted on August 20, 2018 by George Crump

Traditionally, systems create data, process it, and then store it for a time before accessing it again in response to a user request. Essentially, data is processed in batches. In the modern data center, the move is toward real-time analysis…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, CISCO, DAS, FCoE, HCI, Hyperscale, NVMe, NVMe-oF, QOS, SAS, Virtualization
Posted in Blog

White Paper: Storage Diversity vs. Storage Consolidation

Posted on August 16, 2018 by George Crump

The advantages of storage consolidation, better utilization lowered operational costs, seem like compelling reasons for IT to consolidate all their storage systems down to a single system. Why then is the data center becoming more and more storage diversified? There…