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Predictable Virtual Server Performance for Less

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Colm Keegan

For many storage planners it is a daunting task to size their virtual storage infrastructure “just right”, without needless overspending. Indeed, this is becoming increasingly difficult to attain given the high degree of I/O workload variability that multiple virtual machines…

Tagged with: Cloud, Quality of service, SNW Europe, Software Defined Storage, Storage virtualization, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine, VMware
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Re-Thinking The Storage Architecture for Flash

Posted on October 14, 2013 by George Crump

One of the key discussion tracks at Powering The Cloud / SNW Europe is “Re-Thinking Your Data Center Architecture”. Storage is of course a part of the data center and its architecture also needs to be re-thought. There are two…

Tagged with: Data center, Flash, Hard disk drive, PCI Express, SNW Europe, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, VMware
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Developing a Service Oriented Approach to Data Protection

Posted on October 9, 2013 by George Crump

There is a never ending quest by IT professionals to standardize the data center on a single enterprise backup application. It’s time for companies to re-think that approach, by instead looking at providing backup for their services, instead of foisting…

Tagged with: Backup, Dell, High Availability, Incremental backup, Linux, Microsoft Windows, VMware, Windows
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Are PCIe SSDs Breaking Your Storage Network? – and how to stop it

Posted on October 7, 2013 by George Crump

olid state drive (SSD) solutions using flash are becoming the ‘go to’ options for addressing storage performance bottlenecks. And within that technology category, PCIe based SSDs could represent the state of the art. By locating the flash in the server…

Tagged with: Hard disk drive, High Availability, PCI Express, SAN, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage area network, Virident, VMware
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What Are Integrated Backup Appliances?

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Colm Keegan

A lot has been written about the size and scope of the purpose built backup appliance (PBBA) market. When backup appliances first came to market over a decade ago, they were designed primarily as large disk repositories, some of which…

Tagged with: Backup, DataDomain, EMC, NetBackup, RMAN, VMware
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EMC’s ViPR Unleashed

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Colm Keegan

Shipping one Exabyte of storage was a milestone that took EMC ten years to reach. Amazingly, in 2013, EMC was able to reach that same heady number in just one month’s worth of storage shipments. Clearly, business is good at…

Tagged with: Amazon S3, EMC, Software Defined Storage, ViPR, VMware
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Atlantis Raises the Software-defined Storage Bar

Posted on September 20, 2013 by Eric Slack

As Storage Switzerland covered in a recent briefing note “Solving the VDI Storage Contradiction“ Atlantis ILIO is a software solution that addresses the often conflicting requirements facing many companies with their VDI deployments: providing adequate performance for virtual desktops and…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Desktop virtualization, Hardware, SDS, Software Defined Storage, VMware, Xen
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The ROI of Server-Side Caching

Posted on September 18, 2013 by George Crump

Implementing server-side caching with the right solid state disk (SSD) can be like conducting a ‘surgical strike’ on storage performance problems. Installing this combination of hardware and software can eliminate the storage roadblock to increased transactions per second, while not…