Now that the kickoff of this year’s NetApp Insight show is behind us, I have a couple of things to share from the first day. My first observation is about the show itself. I like attending a targeted show; you know what to expect, and […]
Storage Centralization
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Does anyone remember when there was a tradeshow season? I seem to remember three or four consecutive months of shows, and now they seem to be year-round. Of course, the good thing is that I get to go interesting places, talk to a lot of customers, and […]
Content delivery (or distribution) networks (CDN) are generally perceived as being of concern only for wide area networks (WANs). The idea is that relatively static content can distributed to be held as close to a user as possible so as to reduce the stress on […]
There have been suggestions recently that while enterprise flash storage will undoubtedly have its place, it will not become dominant, as others have predicted. However, past and future lessons alike suggest that we shouldn’t be too skeptical about the rise of all-flash Solid State Disks […]
Want to see how storage customers are now achieving 20x faster offsite replication in 20 minutes or less? Now is your chance. This week at EMC World in Las Vegas, Silver Peak is demonstrating the power of replication acceleration software, which allows storage customers to overcome […]
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 […]
Lots of companies around the globe are deploying Silver Peak with Dell EqualLogic to accelerate their offsite replication workloads. ZLTO in the Netherlands is a perfect example. ZLTO handles national relations for over 18,000 farmers across the Netherlands, but with data volumes on the rise, […]
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 […]
Well, Velocity is barely out the door and it is already a crowd favorite. In the UK, Silver Peak’s Velocity solution has been shortlisted for two SVC awards: “Storage Networking Product of the Year” and “Storage Software of the Year.” I guess fast replication performance, […]
In this video, Silver Peak director of replication product management, Everett Dolgner, highlights the new Silver Peak Velocity solution, which gives storage professionals a quick and easy way to accelerate offsite storage replication. Storage admins can achieve on-average 20x faster offsite replication in under 20 […]