Archive for the ‘IT optimization’ Category

Flash memory to replace Fibre Channel disks?

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Although “The times, they are a changin” are the lyrics to a real old Bob Dylan song, they sure seem to be prophetic as they pertain to the storage industry today. In just a few short years, we have seen the fall of Fibre Channel and the introduction of SAS storage as the mainstay of SAN storage. Now it seems even EMC is predicting the rise of Flash memory based drives as the new standard in storage as the prices of memory keep falling.  The reasons are clear, performance, performance, performance.

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Posted in Solid State Disk, cost reduction, SSD, SAN accelerator, performance, IT optimization, storage virtualization, Storage, Virtualization, Optimized Data Services, Storage Utility, FalconStor | No Comments »

Data protection as a service

Friday, February 5th, 2010

Tape backup is still the most prevalent technology in place for dealing with data protection, and array based replication is still the most common method of protection for mission critical applications, but companies are really starting to like the idea of saving money by innovating in how they attack the largest ongoing IT costs, which is still backup and disaster recovery.

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Posted in Data Deduplication, Cloud Computing, SaaS, Disaster recovery, cost reduction, IT optimization, storage virtualization, Storage Utility, Storage, ROI, Virtualization, VMware, Optimized Data Services, FalconStor | No Comments »