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Innovation plus Longevity Wins in the Web-scale Market

At LSI’s Accelerating Innovation Summit (AIS) this year, someone brought up a blog I’d written after a previous AIS event where an LSI executive said they had a RAID stack that was 25 years old. What...

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How Will Storage Controller Technology Evolve in 2014?

One of the top read articles on StorageSwiss is, “What is a Storage Controller?“. As we discussed in that article, a storage controller is the compute power in a storage system and is responsible for...

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Designing Enterprise-class Multi-Tenant Storage

Cloud Providers and enterprises must be able to guarantee performance to specific applications or groups of applications. They also need ways to distribute some of their storage management workload...

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Which Is The Right Way To Implement Flash Storage?

During a recent Storage Swiss webinar, we polled our audience about how they were currently using caching technology in their environment. A significant percentage of respondents replied that they were...

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LSI Nytro MegaRAID 8140-8e8i

LSI has recently released the Nytro MegaRAID (NMR) 8140-8e8i, the latest generation of the company’s PCIe flash acceleration cards for direct-attached storage (DAS). Like the previous NMR versions,...

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A One-box Upgrade for Small Business IT part 3 – Exploring Windows Storage...

The WD Sentinel DS5100/6100 is a compact file server system from disk drive manufacturer Western Digital (WD), designed for the Small- to Medium-sized Business (SMB). The DS5100/6100 comes with Windows...

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Spectra Logic nTier Verde – simple, affordable Enterprise file storage

Primary storage is being overwhelmed by data growth, much of it unstructured digital content. These are large files that don’t change but must still remain online, often for extended periods of time....

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Google-Like Storage on a budget

It wasn’t that long ago that most IT professionals would have considered 1 PB of data a gargantuan amount of information. Now, many data center environments are supporting large unstructured data...

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The perfect Disk Backup for Virtualized Backups?

Disk Backup Appliance Designed for VMware? With its support for SSD, the Drobo B1200i could be one of the most viable platforms for supporting random I/O generating changed block backups and data...

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Will the All-Flash Array Market go away?

Recently HDS’s Hu Yoshida wrote in his blog that he thinks the all-flash array market will go away. I very often find myself agreeing with Hu, he’s a sharp guy and I respect his point of view. As an...

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Overcoming the challenges of Server Side Network Storage

Server side network storage (SSNS) is attracting the attention of many data center planners. It aggregates internal server storage and presents that storage as a sharable virtual volume. Virtual...

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Reader Question: Is Object Storage for Normal Data Centers?

One of the things I like about participating on the forums on Spiceworks is I get great, raw questions. One came in this week during a discussion around object storage. “I’d like to consider myself...

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Enterprise-grade Backup for SMBs – WD Arkeia DA2300 Backup Appliance

The DA2300 is a purpose-built backup appliance from Western Digital that runs the Arkeia backup software package on a capable quad-core, four-drive desktop chassis that WD originally developed for...

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Enterprise-grade Backup for SMBs – WD Arkeia DA2300 Backup Appliance Part 2

This is part two of Storage Switzerland’s test drive of WD’s DA2300 Backup Appliance that features the WD Arkeia backup software. In part one we went through the set up and configuration steps, getting...

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Backup 2.0 – How Primary Storage, Backup Software and Backup Hardware are...

Data protection is more than just backup and backup is more that just moving data from point A to point B. Data centers need to design a layered data protection strategy that allows them to meet a wide...

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StrongBox Archive NAS solves problem of Long-term Unstructured Data Storage

Unstructured data is burying companies’ storage infrastructures. According to Gartner, files comprise 80 percent of all data, and its growth rate in enterprises will exceed 800% in five years....

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Analyst Blog: Which RAID Level should you use for your SSD Tier?

In a recent webinar I discussed how a Hybrid System could be architected so that it could perform as well, or almost as well, as an All-Flash Array. If the IT planner decides to implement a Hybrid...

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Storage Q&A: High Availability for Data Centers of all Sizes

SIOS Technologies and Storage Switzerland recently joined forces for a highly attended webinar. The attendees asked some outstanding questions about flexible HA and DR for virtual servers and cloud...

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Briefing Note: StarTech’s 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 RAID Enclosure

For the last 60 days, Storage Switzerland has been putting StarTech’s 4-bay Thunderbolt 2 hard drive enclosure through its paces. So far we have found that it provides rock solid storage performance...

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How to safely use 8TB Drives in the Enterprise

After a few year hiatus higher capacity hard drives are coming to market. We expect 8TB drives to be readily available before the end of the year with 10TB drives soon to follow. And at the rate that...

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