If you’re looking at setting up private cloud services — or public ones, for that matter — you should already to have a handle on how to automate the critical functions of creating, managing and migrating virtual servers. That’s because if you haven’t achieved this level of service elasticity, it is going to cost a [...]
Us or Them? How Should Data Stored in the Cloud be Encrypted?
Jan 22, 2013 by Leave a Comment
There are plenty of good reasons for storing data in the cloud: the seemingly limitless availability of new capacity, access to enterprise class facilities, the ease of retrieving data from multiple devices, and so on. However, there is always that niggling doubt, especially when it comes to sensitive business data, about how safe cloud storage [...]
If You Store It, They Will Come
Jan 18, 2013 by Leave a Comment
Do you remember the movie, Field of Dreams? I’d like to put a twist on the famous line from the movie, “if you build it he will come.” This is for my friends who are responsible for their corporate networks and the movement of large amounts of data stored in various data centers around the [...]
SNW Europe: When SSD turned disruptive
Nov 9, 2012 by Leave a Comment
It’s hard to miss that this is the year of SSD, or solid-state disk. There is a certain irony therefore – or possibly, given its location, schadenfreude – in an event being ‘themed’ to keep up with the latest trends, only to find out that the new theme is already out of date. So it [...]
“Big Data” or just “a lot of data”?
Oct 30, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Over the past few years, there have been the bandwagons – full of shiny promises, covered in good words and often totally confused when it comes to how they have been messaged. From virtualization through cloud and now onto Big Data – end users just begin to start to understand one when the next one [...]
The New Convergence: Storage and Virtualization
Aug 28, 2012 by Leave a Comment
This past week, EMC announced several new solutions to support virtual environments: the VNXe3150 and, more interestingly, according to CRN, plans to bundle Avamar Virtual Edition into VCenter. Now that the VMWorld Conference is in full swing here San Francisco this week, I thought I would share some observations on how the worlds of storage [...]
Danger! Overload!
Jul 5, 2012 by Leave a Comment
“I have a theory about the human mind. A brain is a lot like a computer. It will only take so many facts, and then it will go on overload and blow up.” – Erma Bombeck. Actually, the same thing holds true for the communication pipelines that drive today’s electronic commerce and business-to-business communications. Virtually [...]
Inside Accelerating Storage Replication (Video)
Jun 22, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Our video blog series continues, and for all of you interested in storage and data replication, this is a video interview you won’t want to miss. In this new episode, I speak with Silver Peak director of replication product management, Everett Dolgner. Everett and I discuss the topic of storage replication and accelerating data replication [...]
Is Big Data a Big Waste of Money?
May 8, 2012 by 1 Comment
It seems like we’re drowning in data, and the cures, including throwing more storage at it, and the relatively new concept of ‘big data’, are worse than the problem. Sort of a congratulations, the operation was a success but the patient died. However, despite the challenges, which are considerable, the opportunities and pay-outs for big [...]
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