Storage
"In increasingly virtualized datacenters, we believe that storage will gradually cease to be implemented as we know it today and will itself also become completely virtualized, leveraging commodity hardware, being self-optimizing and scaling-out to new levels," explains Mark Peters, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. "The industry, which makes a ...
This week, ESG Lab published its Lab Report on the new Riverbed Steelhead EX + Granite.
It was a privilege to work with two ESG Lab Engineers, Tony Palmer and Ajen Johan, to do some hands-on with the new Riverbed technologies.
To me, the really cool part of Granite is how it ...
Published on Monday, January 30th, 2012 at 4:45 pm | No Comments »
Authors: Brian Garrett | Mike Leone |
Storage-class Memory with Sustainable, Multi-dimensional Performance
Virident Storage Class Memory (SCM) is a class of solid-state storage solutions designed to meet the extreme IO performance needs of business-critical databases, Web 2.0, high-performance computing (HPC), and data center tier-0 application workloads. This report documents ESG Lab’s hands-on validation testing of Virident FlashMAX ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Mike Leone |
Yesterday, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the availability of its AWS Storage Gateway, which acts as an iSCSI target, delivered as a virtual appliance. On-premise servers can connect to the iSCSI device and store their data locally, with snapshots being stored in the Amazon S3 cloud-storage environment.
This announcement coincides with ...
The big question of the day is whether the AWS announcement of a cloud storage gateway (one of the worst kept secrets in tech) will validate or kill the existing gateway market. And that’s a good question. For now it is a great validation that users are looking ...
Mozy has announced the public beta of its new Stash offering. The public beta is available to existing Mozy Backup customers, as an add-on capability that takes advantage of customers' existing accounts, subscribed storage capacity, etc. In other words, it’s a great example of the convergence between backup-as-a-service (BaaS) and ...
According to IT research firm Enterprise Strategy Group, 47 percent of storage administrators surveyed planned to deploy unified data storage, due to the inherent cost savings attained through reduced power, cooling, management and optimized storage utilization. Through its proprietary software technology, IceWebs unified data storage systems optimize storage utilization through ...
Cold data anyone? With so much talk of managing ‘hot’ data, I felt this might at least catch your eye. As it happens I’m not talking about the activity level for a given piece of information, but I am actually talking about temperature….and, no, not the temperature in the data ...
"In simple terms the plot-line for 'storage hypervisors' is akin to that for server hypervisors -- but obviously affecting a different part of the IT infrastructure... and we all know how successfully that story has played out,” said Mark Peters, senior analyst, Enterprise Strategy Group. “But storage hypervisors are not ...
The Microsoft Hyper-V edition installs in the Hyper-V Parent Partition and provides native support for Hyper-V and Microsoft Systems Center. It integrates with Microsoft DPM and VSS for backup and recovery and offers bulk virtual machine provisioning wizards for test and development, database and private cloud virtualization use cases.
Clearly it's ...
