One of the most effective ways to address database performance and cost challenges is to modernize the underlying hardware infrastructure.
Innovations such as flash storage, converged infrastructure architectures, and sophisticated data management platforms can have a major impact.
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Published: Mar 12, 2018
Deduplication is a method of reducing the amount of storage space by eliminating redundant data instead of storing it over and over again.
This tech brief describes deduplication methods used in today’s computing environments, with a focus on backups. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of these methods...
Published: Mar 06, 2017
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
SMBs in general don’t have the same IT budgets and staffs as larger enterprises. Yet just like larger organizations they need to protect their data—and make sure they can get back to business rapidly after a disaster or other event that compromises their data and systems.
In this white paper, we’ll...
Published: Aug 14, 2014
IT professionals have traditionally designed and built virtual computing environments from the floor up – now the process is rapidly changing. When it comes to purchasing infrastructure to support virtual and private cloud computing environments, the do-it-yourself (DIY) model is becoming a thing of the past. Instead,...
Published: Sep 23, 2013
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
In this Buyer's Checklist, we describe how these storage systems differ from traditional arrays, provide insights into some of their unique features and offer guidance on evaluating, purchasing and deploying these storage systems.
Published: Mar 01, 2015
This whitepaper describes the benefits of converged architectures and discusses how NetApp’s FlexPod reference design fits into the data centre.
It also documents how one IT reseller and one customer are using the FlexPod concept to revolutionise their businesses.
Published: May 22, 2013
All-flash storage is increasingly being used to consolidate multiple workloads onto a single platform to reduce complexity, enhance agility and lower costs.
Learn how these three factors are shaping the use of all-flash storage and find out the evaluation criteria when considering all-flash storage solutions.
Published: Oct 10, 2016
TechValidate invited over 6,300 IT Professionals to participate in a survey and provide insight about the current Backup and Disaster Recovery landscape.
Published: Mar 01, 2015
UCP constitutes a highly available, flexible and high performing platform that offers a competitive set of capabilities in this segment of the market. Oracle database and Oracle products generally were in HDS engineers’ minds when building the solution, as many of the features can assist in hosting Oracle products....
Published: Feb 05, 2014
Implementing Converged Storage is an evolution and does not require immediate wholesale replacement of current systems. But by putting a plan into place now, enterprises can optimize their current storage investments while building toward a converged future and accruing concomitant benefits along the way.
Virtualization...
Published: May 27, 2013
IT organizations increasingly are turning to new storage solutions that are purpose-built for virtualization and cloud, with a focus on application-aware designs that provide VM-level visibility and control across the entire infrastructure.
Published: Mar 01, 2015
At the beginning of 2016, Pure Storage commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) customers may realize by deploying Pure Storage FlashArray storage solutions for virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)...
Published: Aug 30, 2016