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Briefing Note: NexGen Focuses on Business Value of Data – and a Smarter Cache

Posted on February 20, 2015 by Eric Slack

Recent research by IDC predicts that IT professionals will be managing 4-5 times more data per person by 2020, but only 5% of that data will be important. So while a lot of data is being created, it’s not all…

Tagged with: Capacity, Flash, NexGen, performance, Purpose Built, QOS, Quality of service, SLA, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Software Defined Storage grows up with FalconStor FreeStor

Posted on February 18, 2015 by George Crump

Software Defined Storage (SDS) is still in its infancy. While there are exceptions, like Atlantis Computing, Nexenta and DataCore, vendors in the space are for the most part startups looking to get their first hundred or so customers. FalconStor’s new…

Tagged with: Cluster, Deduplication, FalconStor, Flash, Infrastructure, Migration, Replication, SDS, Snapshot, Software Defined Storage, Tape, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Violin Memory ushers in the Flash Storage Platform

Posted on February 17, 2015 by George Crump

Even though memory has always played a role in the storage infrastructure, the introduction of flash based storage has lead to rapid advancements in the evolution of storage. Today flash use has evolved from simply augmenting disk-based primary storage (hybrid…

Analyst Blog: Do you have a Private Cloud or Just Virtualized Servers?

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Eric Slack

IT in companies of all sizes is facing competition from the cloud. Based on a self-service, automated provisioning model, public clouds enjoy efficiencies and economics that few corporate data centers can match today. But internal IT has a distinct advantage,…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Converged, Data Protection, Flash, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, JBVS, performance, SME, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM
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Briefing Note: DH2i Brings Containers to Windows Server

Posted on February 12, 2015 by George Crump

Most data centers are not 100% virtualized, in fact most hover around a 50% virtualization level. The remaining physical servers are often business critical servers running applications based on Microsoft SQL or Exchange. IT Planners are looking toward “container” technology…

Tagged with: Cloud, DH2i, Hyper-V, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, Metadata, MS-SQL, ROI, SQL, Virtualization, VMware
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Briefing Note: LinkTek – Making sure your Storage Refresh works

Posted on January 30, 2015 by George Crump

Storage upgrades and consolidation are a way of life for the modern IT professional. One of the most challenging but overlooked aspects of an upgrade is data migration, a process that’s not as simple as copying files and other data…

Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, LinkTek, Metadata, Migration, Shared Storage, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Platform9 brings Amazon Class Automation to Traditional Data Centers

Posted on January 29, 2015 by George Crump

For many data centers the most appealing part of the public cloud is the automated provisioning. Users or application owners simply define the type and amount of compute and storage they need and the public cloud automatically provisions the exact…

Tagged with: Cloud, Deduplication, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, OpenStack, Platform9, Provisioning, Virtualization
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Briefing Note: Ravello enables traditional Data Centers to leverage the Cloud

Posted on January 27, 2015 by George Crump

In our recent article “How Traditional Data Centers Should Use The Cloud” we discussed the concept of starting the application development process in the cloud and then migrating that application on-premises when development is complete. This approach saves the startup…

Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Hypervisor, Metadata, Ravello, SaaS, Software as a service, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMDK
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Briefing Note: What is 3D NAND and why should the Data Center care?

Posted on January 23, 2015 by George Crump

Moore’s Law has fundamentally changed the data center. Plentiful processing power has driven the success of technologies like high performance computing, highly scaled database environments and of course virtualization and cloud computing. But to take advantage of all that CPU…

Tagged with: 3D NAND, All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, Intel, MLC, Solid State Disk, SSD, TLC, Virtualization
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Can the Cloud consolidate the Backup of Endpoints, Laptops and Servers?

Posted on January 20, 2015 by George Crump

Every few years the backup consolidation project shows up on IT’s whiteboard. The objective of this exercise seems noble enough; consolidate point solutions so that the data protection process can be simplified, while at the same time increasing protection quality…