The role of Ceph in the OpenStack ecosystem — as an open source community support storage platform that supports Cinder, the block storage service — has been well publicized. Ceph fits nicely between ephemeral storage (Logical Volume Manager, LVM) and expensive commercial storage, and services a wide variety...
Published: Sep 05, 2016
Improving data backup and recovery is a critical priority for IT groups in organizations of all sizes...
Traditional data backup technologies, such as tape, are slow, expensive, and risky. Lost or damaged tapes, long restore times, and painfully slow management are driving organizations to look for a better data protection...
Published: Apr 01, 2016
The volume of data you need to manage and protect grows at a pace that is difficult to keep up with—roughly 40% per year for the typical enterprise. Add to that the performance demands of new applications—instant response times, always-on availability, and anytime, anywhere access—and data centre managers...
Published: Feb 24, 2016
This e-book addresses common misconceptions about enterprise flash storage, providing clarity for anyone using or considering flash in enterprise environments. Learn about old myths laid to rest and the reality of how enterprises can make full use of their flash storage investment.
Published: Oct 04, 2016
Is it just being a corporate magpie, or is there strategy and intent in EMC’s “embarrassment of flash riches”? After all, some users might feel that just one or two flash options should be enough. How fast is fast enough!?
The top-line answer is that EMC is demonstrating, once again, its core competency...
Published: Feb 09, 2015
The lifeblood of any business, data is outgrowing today’s storage systems in terms of both quantity and sophistication. At the same time, that data has become even more important for your business—especially in this age of “big data” and analytics.
In today’s environment, however, many...
Published: May 14, 2014
Your industry peers realized real-world savings over traditional storage by implementing, maintaining, and upgrading their Pure Storage arrays with controller upgrade programs such as Free Every Three and Upgrade Flex.
The TEI study also cites that the industry-leading Evergreen Storage Subscriptions business...
Published: Apr 19, 2017
Liongate Capital Management is an investment management and research firm specializing in portfolios of hedge funds, and targets high absolute returns in any market environment. In addition to the London, U.K. office, Liongate has offices in New York, Zurich and Dubai.
Liongate is fully virtualized in its environment....
Published: Jun 04, 2013
Today’s organizations face a ballooning data management and risk problem. The use of laptops, tablets, workstations, servers and smartphones in the enterprise to create and store critical data is growing at an alarming rate.
Many companies still rely on a legacy, platform-specific data backup solution,...
Published: Apr 08, 2014
This independent study from IDC looks at the economic benefits of flash deployments from a business perspective.
It provides essential guidance for IT decision makers and also highlights scenarios where flash may not be the best choice.
Published: Oct 04, 2016
While consumerization offers many benefits for both end users and the enterprise in terms of convenience, efficiency and productivity, it presents important challenges for IT departments, especially in terms of endpoint backup and data security.
To reap the benefits of consumerization while avoiding security and other...
Published: Jul 01, 2014
Are you building a business case for replacing disk systems with all-flash?
Read this paper to find out what enterprise users are saying about their own experiences with all-flash storage. Findings are based on over a dozen different product reviews.
Published: Mar 12, 2018
Solid-state arrays have matured beyond performance-oriented workloads, and the benefits are now compelling for all primary storage plus old and new unexpected workloads. This Magic Quadrant will help IT leaders better understand SSA vendors' positioning in the market.
Gain insights into the rapidly evolving market...
Published: Oct 05, 2016
This paper details why organization needs to shift more security resources from preventing intrusion toward rapid threat detection and remediation, and the intelligence-driven security approach that is required to do so.
Published: May 27, 2014