For a new storage company to stand above the rest it has to, within its category, provide better performance, better cost or simplify management. Over the past two and a half decades we’ve seen many companies deliver these requirements. Is…
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Will There Be Another Great Storage System Company?
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, SATA, Thin provisioning, Virtualization
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Not Every All-Flash Array is the Same – AccelStor Briefing Note
All-Flash arrays are more than just the go-to option for data centers looking to solve performance problems. For many organizations they are becoming the mainstream primary storage system. But not every all-flash array is the same, and their differences impact…
Tagged with: AccelStor, All-Flash Array, Deduplication, DRAM, Flash, Latency, NVMe, RAID, Snapshot, SSD, Thin provisioning, Virtualization
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Software Defined Storage vs. Hyperconvergence
Hyperconvergence makes a lot of sense for many organizations. Hyperconvergence lets data centers leverage the excess compute in their virtual infrastructure to run the hyperconverged solution. The goal is to create a simpler architecture that converges compute, storage and networking.…
Tagged with: Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hyperconvergence, Hypervisor, Maxta, SDN, SDS, Virtualization, VM
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Can You Use Your Data Center as DR for The Cloud – Zerto Briefing Note
Many companies are asking two questions after moving some or all of their workloads into cloud vendors, such as Amazon, Google, or Azure. Do I need DR for the cloud? Where do you failover to if you’re running in the…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Hyper-V, Ransomware, Replication, RTO, Virtualization, VMware, Zerto
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Unified Storage 2.0
There are so many ways that organizations use data and for the most part each use case needs a different storage system. The problem is a “storage system for every use case” strategy is expensive, complex to manage and very…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, All-Flash, Archive, file sync and share, Hybrid, NAS, Nexsan, Ransomware, SAN, Shadow IT, Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Storage Testing as Part of Your Storage Refresh Process – Rent or Buy?
An organization tends to review its storage testing capabilities as it starts its next round of storage refresh. Typically they will either do the hard work of assembling a lab that provides a small representation of their production environment, leverage…
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Modern Storage Infrastructures Need Software Defined Networks – Big Switch Briefing Note
Data center modernization creates agility so IT can rapidly respond to the needs of the business. Of the aspects of the data center being modernized, the network infrastructure tends to be the last to change and it inhibits the proliferation…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Containers, Fabric, HCI, Hyperconvergence, ISCSI, NFS, SDN, SDS, Virtualization, VM, VSAN
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Realizing The Full Potential of VMware – Blue Medora Briefing Note
Virtualization is supposed to do so much more than just consolidate servers. It was supposed to allow IT to become more service oriented, essentially becoming the organization’s cloud, provisioning IT resources on the fly. Moving beyond simple server consolidation to…
Tagged with: Blue Medora, Cloud, Over provision, Software Defined, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Is Hardware-Based Hyperconvergence Easier to Implement?
Implementation of hyperconverged systems requires the installation of two components. First is the hardware, made up of servers and the networking that connects them. Second is the software, made up of the hypervisor that creates a cluster and storage software…
Solving Today’s Problems With A Cloud Future – Elastifile FMS Briefing Note
The term “cloud first” comes up often in IT circles these days. It’s a concept that calls for each new application an organization is bringing online, IT should consider the “cloud first” as a place to host that application. It…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Container, DRaaS, Elastifile, FMS2017, NAS, Scale-Out, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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