storage virtualization
Sometimes in this business it is hard to separate the real stuff from the marketing fluff. One of the big questions I’ve been asked in 2011 is whether or not there is any momentum behind cloud storage. That is a tough question to answer – the biggest players, ...
ESG Lab recently completed testing of Dell Compellent Storage Center 5.4.
Storage Center from Dell Compellent was designed to provide efficient, agile, and resilient networked storage with a goal of reducing storage cost and complexity while meeting the growing needs of the business.
This report documents hands-on testing of Storage Center version ...
Published on Monday, November 21st, 2011 at 12:51 pm | 1 Comment »
Authors: Brian Garrett | Jason Buffington |
Storage Center from Dell Compellent was designed to provide efficient, agile, and resilient networked storage with a goal of reducing storage cost and complexity while meeting the growing needs of the business. This report documents hands-on testing of Storage Center version 5.4 with a focus on the capacity, recoverability, and ...
Authors: Brian Garrett | Jason Buffington |
With this addition to the company portfolio it is able to address the growing needs of enterprise for high performance, high capacity flash storage solutions in their data centers. ”Flash storage performance varies by type of course, but it is also considerably affected by factors such as application workloads and data ...
The evolution of IT is reaching at least one true pinnacle of efficiency with server virtualization: the transformation from the “one application, one server” paradigm to running multiple applications on different operating systems on a single physical machine. While new server strategies have transformed operations, storage implementations can often hinder ...
One thing is certain in the ever-changing landscape of IT: data volumes continue to grow, regardless of economic cycles. In many organizations, storage solutions that have been deployed to accommodate that growth have been deployed in an ad hoc fashion. Mergers and acquisitions have also contributed to this mix, creating ...
Mark and Steve wrote a really good report on how storage needs to evolve to support virtual environments – and I love their point about how storage has evolved over the past few decades:
We can no longer continue to create proprietary monolithic “boxes” of functionality where complexity ...
Decades of growth of applications, storage, and complexity have delivered unprecedented economic, operational, and flexibility challenges to the world of IT. To meet these demands today’s IT is turning to virtualization, not just of systems and applications, but in every facet of IT. When broadly and carefully deployed, virtualization has ...
Lab Reports:
IBM Storwize V7000 Disk System: Enterprise-class Function in a Midrange Storage Package
Published on Thursday, March 31st, 2011 at 10:39 am | 2 Comments »
Authors: Tony Palmer | Vinny Choinski |
This report documents the results of ESG Lab hands-on testing of the IBM Storwize V7000 Midrange Disk System with a focus on the powerful enterprise-class features and functionality offered by the platform, including heterogeneous storage virtualization, thin provisioning, data mobility, and capacity-efficient point-in-time snapshots. Testing was designed to confirm IBM’s ...
Authors: Tony Palmer | Vinny Choinski |
Server virtualization technology has created one of biggest periods of transformation in IT and while almost every organization is leveraging it, there are different levels of adoption and maturity. ESG sought to understand how these more mature or advanced users differed from those who were just beginning ...
