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ChalkTalk Video: Navigating the All-Flash and SDS Feature Wars

Posted on August 27, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

IT professionals have more choices than ever to sort through as they try to make a storage decision. From a hardware perspective should they continue to use hard disks or should they start to move toward an all-flash data center?…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Hypervisor, SDS, SSD, Virtualization, X-IO
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Is Software-Defined Storage Enough?

Posted on August 27, 2015 by George Crump

Initiatives like server virtualization, cloud infrastructure-as-a-service, and real-time analytics are allowing IT to meet today’s ever-increasing business demands. These initiatives are designed to bring agility to the data center, yet they trip and fall when they have to interact with…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Flash, Fragmentation, Hyper-converged, NAS, Primary Data, SDS, SLO, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Virtualization
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Can HPC Storage Solve Enterprise Data Management Issues?

Posted on August 25, 2015 by George Crump

High-Performance Compute (HPC) and the storage infrastructure that supports it has long been considered a realm unto itself. Enterprise IT would have nothing to do with it. However, in the past decade, massive I/O bottlenecks have emerged throughout IT infrastructure…

Tagged with: Backup, Clone, DataDirect Networks, DDN, HPC, Recovery, Replication, Scale, Snapshot, Virtualization
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Containers vs. Virtual Machines

Posted on August 24, 2015 by George Crump

Which is Right for Windows Applications? Virtualization has allowed the data center to become more responsive to the needs of the business. As it has moved into production, however, virtualization has hit several walls and the scalability of the “one…

Tagged with: Availability, Container, DH2i, Efficiency, Hypervisor, QOS, Scale, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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Webinar: The Top 4 Requirements of a Docker Storage Architecture

Posted on August 20, 2015 by George Crump

Like virtualization before it, container technology will evolve from a DevOps initiative to an enterprise requirement. Docker is leading that evolution as it promises to bring greater efficiency to the data center than we ever thought possible with the virtual…

Tagged with: Hedvig, Hyper-scale, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Shared Storage, Storage, Virtualization
Posted in Webinar

MeetTheCEO: Infinio’s Arun Agarwal

Posted on August 4, 2015 by Charlie Hodges

Infinio CEO Arun Agarwal sits down with Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and Charlie Hodges to talk about Infinio and how he’s trained his entire work life to run a start-up technology company. Infinio brings to market a fundamentally new architecture to…

Tagged with: Infinio, VDI, Virtual machine, Virtualization
Posted in Podcast

Reining in Runaway Data Sprawl

Posted on August 3, 2015 by Joseph Ortiz

Briefing Note: Komprise Data Management Solution As anyone who has been in IT for a while knows, modern organizations are swamped by what has been called a “tsunami of data.” Various industry sources have indicated that data is more than…

Tagged with: Cloud, IoT, Komprise, SaaS, Storage Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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What are the Requirements to Consolidate Storage?

Posted on August 3, 2015 by George Crump

In the perfect world, a data center would have a single storage system. One that would provide high performance and high capacity in a single platform that doesn’t take up much data center floor space. Ideally, this system would be…

Tagged with: Consolidation, DRAM, Flash, Hypervisor, Infinidat, NAS, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: Exposing the Myths of Flash Storage for Virtualization

Posted on July 24, 2015 by George Crump

Flash storage has become the cure-all for the storage I/O blender created by the virtual server and virtual desktop environment. But the rush to flash has created a few myths about how to use flash for virtualization. In this webinar…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Deduplication, Flash, Tegile, Virtualization
Posted in Slideshare

Managing Storage Sprawl, Instead of Consolidating it

Posted on July 21, 2015 by George Crump

At Storage Switzerland we write a lot about storage consolidation. While consolidation can simplify management the initial requirement of refreshing and potentially replacing legacy storage is a show stopper for many data centers. SDS provides a viable alternative if it can be used on existing storage assets so that the management and operation of those devices can be consolidated. In this article we discuss how SDS can provide simplification while being more cost-effective.