Buying storage is an ongoing process that may be periodic in some environments and seemingly continuous in others. There are several primary reasons given for storage purchases: New application deployments that require storing significant amounts of data. Performance or features...
Read More »Did you ever have a visitor to your data center say, “I didn’t know any of these systems were still around?” The implication here is that your data center is one step away from being a museum. Having “museum worthy”...
Read More »Storage Misalignment has been a performance issue that has been around for a long time. It can contribute to as much as a 30% loss in performance is not resolved. It has always been a consideration in the physical environments...
Read More »Almost every conversation about storage includes performance. That’s because storage system performance is important for the responsiveness of applications. Most vendors go to great efforts to provide performance data for their storage systems. This performance data provides valuable information for...
Read More »VMware users are expecting to see their applications scale virtual vs. native like the VMware reported tier 1 application benchmark results. To get close to or meet these expectations there are three things that are a must have in order...
Read More »Have you found yourself expecting more performance out of your host to find out that you have reached or exceeded the maximum amount of cycles for your physical server? Don’t feel bad it happens to many users due to lack...
Read More »IBM’s acquisition of Texas Memory Systems is the latest salvo in the battle of heavyweights as companies position themselves to offer primary storage based on solid-state technology. It’s important for IT professionals to understand that solid-state technology is used in...
Read More »There has been a noticeable increase in the number of storage product launches in the past few weeks and that will continue during VMworld 2012, which begins Sunday in San Francisco. VMworld has become a major storage event because of...
Read More »Major storage vendors constantly acquire technology through acquisitions and partnerships, and these deals often show a lot about where the industry’s technology is headed. They also show that large vendors often can’t afford to take the time to develop valuable...
Read More »As with practically any industry, product names are crucial when selling storage. Storage products sit in the heart of data centers and protect business information. lAn individual storage system may stay in use for four or five years, and there...
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