This document summarizes strategies for managing storage performance, including using disk arrays, caching, and solid state drives (SSDs). It discusses how storage performance is an important metric for evaluating IT efficiency and is leveraged by vendors. While SSDs provide much faster performance than disks, they have endurance limitations like wear from repeated writes. Storage virtualization has the potential to optimize performance without significant added costs.
Big Data SSD Architecture: Digging Deep to Discover Where SSD Performance Pay...Samsung Business USA
Which storage technology, HDDs or SSDs, excels in big data architecture? SSDs clearly win on speed, offering higher sequential read/write speeds and higher IOPS. However, deploying SSDs in hundreds or thousands of nodes could add up to a very expensive proposition. A better approach identifies critical locations where SSDs enable immediate cost-per-performance wins. This whitepaper will look at the basics of big data tools, review two performance wins with SSDs in a well-known framework, as well as present some examples of emerging opportunities on the leading edge of big data technology.
Capitalizing on the New Era of In-memory ComputingInfosys
In-memory computing is all set to turn mainstream due to the host of benefits it offers and supportive factors, such as dropping memory prices, availability of more computing power and the growing need to leverage Big Data that requires new methods of processing unstructured information. Companies should use in-memory techniques while developing new analytics applications to take advantages of them and also consider re-engineering legacy systems to prepare them for new world of data, reduce complexity, improve scalability and speed.
Virtual SAN - A Deep Dive into Converged Storage (technical whitepaper)DataCore APAC
DataCore™ Virtual SAN introduces the next evolution in Software-defined Storage (SDS) by creating high-performance and highly-available shared storage pools using the disks and flash storage in your servers. It addresses
the requirements for fast and reliable access to storage across a cluster of servers at remote sites as well as in high-performance applications.
DataCore Virtual SAN virtualizes the local storage on two or more physical x86-64 servers. It can leverage any combination of magnetic disks (SAS, SATA) and optionally flash, to provide persistent storage services as close to the application as possible without having to go out over the wire (network or fabric). Virtual disks provisioned from DataCore Virtual SAN can also be shared across the cluster to support the dynamic migration and failover of applications between hosts.
DataCore Virtual SAN addresses the challenges that exist today within many IT organisations such as single points of failure, poor application performance (particularly within virtualized environments), low storage efficiency and utilisation, and high infrastructure costs.
Big Data SSD Architecture: Digging Deep to Discover Where SSD Performance Pay...Samsung Business USA
Which storage technology, HDDs or SSDs, excels in big data architecture? SSDs clearly win on speed, offering higher sequential read/write speeds and higher IOPS. However, deploying SSDs in hundreds or thousands of nodes could add up to a very expensive proposition. A better approach identifies critical locations where SSDs enable immediate cost-per-performance wins. This whitepaper will look at the basics of big data tools, review two performance wins with SSDs in a well-known framework, as well as present some examples of emerging opportunities on the leading edge of big data technology.
Capitalizing on the New Era of In-memory ComputingInfosys
In-memory computing is all set to turn mainstream due to the host of benefits it offers and supportive factors, such as dropping memory prices, availability of more computing power and the growing need to leverage Big Data that requires new methods of processing unstructured information. Companies should use in-memory techniques while developing new analytics applications to take advantages of them and also consider re-engineering legacy systems to prepare them for new world of data, reduce complexity, improve scalability and speed.
Virtual SAN - A Deep Dive into Converged Storage (technical whitepaper)DataCore APAC
DataCore™ Virtual SAN introduces the next evolution in Software-defined Storage (SDS) by creating high-performance and highly-available shared storage pools using the disks and flash storage in your servers. It addresses
the requirements for fast and reliable access to storage across a cluster of servers at remote sites as well as in high-performance applications.
DataCore Virtual SAN virtualizes the local storage on two or more physical x86-64 servers. It can leverage any combination of magnetic disks (SAS, SATA) and optionally flash, to provide persistent storage services as close to the application as possible without having to go out over the wire (network or fabric). Virtual disks provisioned from DataCore Virtual SAN can also be shared across the cluster to support the dynamic migration and failover of applications between hosts.
DataCore Virtual SAN addresses the challenges that exist today within many IT organisations such as single points of failure, poor application performance (particularly within virtualized environments), low storage efficiency and utilisation, and high infrastructure costs.
DataCore™ Virtual SAN introduces the next evolution in Software-defined Storage (SDS) by creating high-performance and highly-available shared storage pools using the disks and flash storage in your servers. It addresses
the requirements for fast and reliable access to storage across a cluster of servers at remote sites as well as in high-performance applications.
DataCore Virtual SAN virtualizes the local storage on two or more physical x86-64 servers. It can leverage any combination of magnetic disks (SAS, SATA) and optionally flash, to provide persistent storage services as close to the application as possible without having to go out over the wire (network or fabric). Virtual disks provisioned from DataCore Virtual SAN can also be shared across the cluster to support the dynamic migration and failover of applications between hosts.
DataCore Virtual SAN addresses the challenges that exist today within many IT organizations such as single points of failure, poor application performance (particularly within virtualized environments), low storage efficiency and utilization, and high infrastructure costs.
Rethinking Storage Infrastructures by Utilizing the Value of FlashJonathan Long
Engineering Fellow, Adam Roberts, shares insights on leveraging flash in storage infrastructures. This presentation was originally made during Flash Memory Summit 2016
Headquartered in Asia with coverage across the region and beyond, 1cloudstar is a pure-play Cloud Services Provider offering cloud-related consulting and professional services. 1cloudstar brings a deep understanding of what is possible when legacy systems and cloud solutions coexist and we have a clear vision of the digital future toward which this hybrid world is leading us. We combine those insights with our traditional Enterprise IT knowledge to drive innovation and transform complex environments into high-performance engines.
Whether you’re in the early stages of evaluating how the cloud can benefit your business, need guidance on developing a cloud strategy or how to integrate new cloud technology with their existing technology investments, 1cloudstar can leverage the skills and experience gained from many other enterprise cloud projects to ensure you achieve your business objectives.
1cloudstar’s unique strategic approach and engagement model ‘1cloudstar Engage’ combined with it’s cloud infrastructure and application integration skills sets the company apart from traditional technology system integrators. 1cloudstar’s team of consultants can leverage years of technology infrastructure and applications experience along with first hand experience of public, private and hybrid cloud projects to ensure your enterprise journey to cloud is a success.
1cloudstar accelerates the cloud-powered business, helping enterprises achieve real results from cloud applications and platforms.
Net App Syncsort Integrated Backup Solution SheetMichael Hudak
NetApp has core technology for
block-level data protection .
What does Syncsort add?
A: Syncsort leverages NetApp core technology while adding the following: Heterogeneous application support for Exchange,Oracle, SQL• Deeper integration with VMware for advanced,
automated recovery scenarios• Catalog search and restore across disk-based backup• A catalog that spans both disk and tape• Recovery from SnapMirror DR destinations• Automated Bare Metal Recovery
The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.
Hadoop is sparking a Big Data analytics revolution. But all the Hadoop insights in the world are worth nothing unless they lead to new, profitable action. To translate Hadoop insights into action in real time, more and more enterprises are combining Hadoop with the power of in-memory computing.
Join us as we outline the tremendous benefits of merging Hadoop with in-memory data management, the challenges of doing so, and tips for getting started.
Data storage makes the process easier to back up files for safekeeping and quick recovery at the time of any unexpected computing crash or cyberattack.
In the Age of Unstructured Data, Enterprise-Class Unified Storage Gives IT a ...Hitachi Vantara
Your enterprises can no longer be the realm of monolithic block-centric storage systems. Unstructured data drives the adoption of unified storage systems that support multiple protocols. Mobile smartphones and tablets accelerate the spread of file-based applications and data. Is your enterprise ready to join the mobile revolution? In this paper, see how Hitachi with our next generation of unified enterprise storage will help you move into the next era of business agility and efficiency.
Historically, the tradeoff of hard disk drives (HDDs) versus solid state drives (SSDs) in enterprises has revolved around three variables: capacity, endurance and price. This whitepaper looks at how increased capacity and durability is expanding SSD applications in the data center.
Demartek evaluated the Lenovo Storage S3200 SAN for SQL Server Database Performance. Read this report to learn how well the S3200 did and why you should consider it for you business!
DataCore™ Virtual SAN introduces the next evolution in Software-defined Storage (SDS) by creating high-performance and highly-available shared storage pools using the disks and flash storage in your servers. It addresses
the requirements for fast and reliable access to storage across a cluster of servers at remote sites as well as in high-performance applications.
DataCore Virtual SAN virtualizes the local storage on two or more physical x86-64 servers. It can leverage any combination of magnetic disks (SAS, SATA) and optionally flash, to provide persistent storage services as close to the application as possible without having to go out over the wire (network or fabric). Virtual disks provisioned from DataCore Virtual SAN can also be shared across the cluster to support the dynamic migration and failover of applications between hosts.
DataCore Virtual SAN addresses the challenges that exist today within many IT organizations such as single points of failure, poor application performance (particularly within virtualized environments), low storage efficiency and utilization, and high infrastructure costs.
Rethinking Storage Infrastructures by Utilizing the Value of FlashJonathan Long
Engineering Fellow, Adam Roberts, shares insights on leveraging flash in storage infrastructures. This presentation was originally made during Flash Memory Summit 2016
Headquartered in Asia with coverage across the region and beyond, 1cloudstar is a pure-play Cloud Services Provider offering cloud-related consulting and professional services. 1cloudstar brings a deep understanding of what is possible when legacy systems and cloud solutions coexist and we have a clear vision of the digital future toward which this hybrid world is leading us. We combine those insights with our traditional Enterprise IT knowledge to drive innovation and transform complex environments into high-performance engines.
Whether you’re in the early stages of evaluating how the cloud can benefit your business, need guidance on developing a cloud strategy or how to integrate new cloud technology with their existing technology investments, 1cloudstar can leverage the skills and experience gained from many other enterprise cloud projects to ensure you achieve your business objectives.
1cloudstar’s unique strategic approach and engagement model ‘1cloudstar Engage’ combined with it’s cloud infrastructure and application integration skills sets the company apart from traditional technology system integrators. 1cloudstar’s team of consultants can leverage years of technology infrastructure and applications experience along with first hand experience of public, private and hybrid cloud projects to ensure your enterprise journey to cloud is a success.
1cloudstar accelerates the cloud-powered business, helping enterprises achieve real results from cloud applications and platforms.
Net App Syncsort Integrated Backup Solution SheetMichael Hudak
NetApp has core technology for
block-level data protection .
What does Syncsort add?
A: Syncsort leverages NetApp core technology while adding the following: Heterogeneous application support for Exchange,Oracle, SQL• Deeper integration with VMware for advanced,
automated recovery scenarios• Catalog search and restore across disk-based backup• A catalog that spans both disk and tape• Recovery from SnapMirror DR destinations• Automated Bare Metal Recovery
The Apache Hadoop software library is a framework that allows for the distributed processing of large data sets across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.
Hadoop is sparking a Big Data analytics revolution. But all the Hadoop insights in the world are worth nothing unless they lead to new, profitable action. To translate Hadoop insights into action in real time, more and more enterprises are combining Hadoop with the power of in-memory computing.
Join us as we outline the tremendous benefits of merging Hadoop with in-memory data management, the challenges of doing so, and tips for getting started.
Data storage makes the process easier to back up files for safekeeping and quick recovery at the time of any unexpected computing crash or cyberattack.
In the Age of Unstructured Data, Enterprise-Class Unified Storage Gives IT a ...Hitachi Vantara
Your enterprises can no longer be the realm of monolithic block-centric storage systems. Unstructured data drives the adoption of unified storage systems that support multiple protocols. Mobile smartphones and tablets accelerate the spread of file-based applications and data. Is your enterprise ready to join the mobile revolution? In this paper, see how Hitachi with our next generation of unified enterprise storage will help you move into the next era of business agility and efficiency.
Historically, the tradeoff of hard disk drives (HDDs) versus solid state drives (SSDs) in enterprises has revolved around three variables: capacity, endurance and price. This whitepaper looks at how increased capacity and durability is expanding SSD applications in the data center.
Demartek evaluated the Lenovo Storage S3200 SAN for SQL Server Database Performance. Read this report to learn how well the S3200 did and why you should consider it for you business!
While apps may display several symptoms indicative of slow or erratic response after being virtualized, the problem boils down to contention for shared storage resources; contention
that did not occur when the apps had the storage all to themselves.
These so called “bottlenecks” occur in spurts as application requests collide randomly, resulting in spikes of sluggish, unpredictable latency. The more frequent, the greater the
users’ dissatisfaction. You may recall that one of the primary reasons these business critical apps were originally
sequestered on separate physical machines was to avoid such collisions
Why is Virtualization Creating Storage Sprawl? By Storage SwitzerlandINFINIDAT
Desktop and server virtualization have brought many benefits to the data center. These two initiatives have allowed IT to respond quickly to the needs of the organization while driving down IT costs, physical footprint requirements and energy demands. But there is one area of the data center that has actually increased in cost since virtualization started to make its way into production… storage. Because of virtualization, more data centers need "ash to meet the random I/O nature of the virtualized environment, which of course is more expensive, on a dollar per GB basis, than hard disk drives. The single biggest problem however is the signi!cant increase in the number of discrete storage systems that service the environment. This “storage sprawl” threatens the return on investment (ROI) of virtualization projects and makes storage more complex to manage.
Learn more at www.infinidat.com.
Learn about Positioning IBM Flex System 16 Gb Fibre Channel Fabric for Storage-Intensive Enterprise Workloads. This IBM Redpaper discusses server performance imbalance that can be found in typical application environments and how to address this issue with the 16 Gb Fibre Channel technology to provide required levels of performance and availability for the storage-intensive applications. For more information on Pure Systems, visit http://ibm.co/18vDnp6.
Visit the official Scribd Channel of IBM India Smarter Computing at http://bit.ly/VwO86R to get access to more documents.
Efficient and scalable multitenant placement approach for in memory database ...CSITiaesprime
Of late Multitenant model with In-Memory database has become prominent area for research. The paper has used advantages of multitenancy to reduce the cost for hardware, labor and make availability of storage by sharing database memory and file execution. The purpose of this paper is to give overview of proposed Supple architecture for implementing in-memory database backend and multitenancy, applicable in public and private cloud settings. Backend in memory database uses column-oriented approach with dictionary based compression technique. We used dedicated sample benchmark for the workload processing and also adopt the SLA penalty model. In particular, we present two approximation algorithms, multi-tenant placement (MTP) and best-fit greedy to show the quality of tenant placement. The experimental results show that MTP algorithm is scalable and efficient in comparison with best-fit greedy algorithm over proposed architecture.
Flash is Changing Business
In business timing is everything. We all know the phrase "Time is Money", right? This is especially true when it comes to business-critical applications. Any delays in delivering data and processing could result in lost customers, lost revenue and lost trust.
thinkASG's new eBook "Our Hero Flash" discusses these challenges and looks at how Flash is changing business as we know it today. Read about how Flash is providing a platform for innovation and making a huge impact on the way healthcare organizations are engaging with their patients. Customer service oriented companies can better connect with their customers much faster than before and decrease time needed to help them.
Xd planning guide - storage best practicesNuno Alves
The Citrix Storage planning guide provides a list of best practices, recommendations and
performance related tips that cover the most critical areas of storage integration with Citrix
XenDesktop. It is not intended as a comprehensive guide for planning and configuring storage
infrastructures, nor as a storage training handbook.
Due to scope, this guide provides some device-specific information. For additional device- specific
configuration, Citrix suggests reviewing the storage vendor’s documentation, the storage vendor’s
hardware compatibility list, and contacting the vendor’s technical support if necessary
Workload Centric Scale-Out Storage for Next Generation DatacenterCloudian
For performance workloads, SolidFire provides a scale-out all-flash storage platform designed
to deliver guaranteed storage performance to thousands of application workloads side-by-side,
allowing performance workload consolidation under a single storage platform. The SolidFire system
can be combined together over standard networking technologies in clusters ranging from 4 to 100
nodes, providing high performance capacity from 35TB to 3.4PB, and can deliver between 200,000
and 7.5M guaranteed IOPS to more than 100,000 volumes / applications within a single cluster.
Streamlining Backup: Enhancing Data Protection with Backup AppliancesMaryJWilliams2
Explore the efficiency and reliability of backup appliances in safeguarding critical data with our informative PDF submission. Discover how organizations can leverage backup appliances to streamline backup processes, improve data resilience, and enhance disaster recovery capabilities. Gain insights into the features, benefits, and best practices for deploying backup appliances in diverse IT environments to ensure data availability and continuity. To Know more: https://stonefly.com/white-papers/data-availability-a-guide-to-backup-appliances-and-data-availability/
Demartek evaluated the Lenovo S3200 SAN supporting multiple workloads and saw tremendous results. Read this report and find out why the S3200 should be considered for your SAN deployments!
Configuration and Deployment Guide For Memcached on Intel® ArchitectureOdinot Stanislas
This Configuration and Deployment Guide explores designing and building a Memcached infrastructure that is scalable, reliable, manageable and secure. The guide uses experience with real-world deployments as well as data from benchmark tests. Configuration guidelines on clusters of Intel® Xeon®- and Atom™-based servers take into account differing business scenarios and inform the various tradeoffs to accommodate different Service Level Agreement (SLA) requirements and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) objectives.
Software-Defined Storage Accelerates Storage Cost Reduction and Service-Level...DataCore Software
In this White Paper, IDC, a major global market intelligence firm assesses DataCore in the Software-Defined Storage (SDS) space.
DataCore is one of the leading providers of hardware independent storage virtualization software. Its customers are actively leveraging the benefits of software-defined storage in IT environments ranging from large datacenters to more modest computer rooms, thereby getting better use from pre-existing storage equipment.
This White Paper further discusses the emerging storage architecture of software-defined storage and how DataCore enables its customers to take advantage of it today.
Download this IDC White Paper to learn about:
- The four major forces that have led to a major transformation in changing the way we use IT to do our jobs and how datacenters need to adapt.
- Why companies are switching to SDS and the benefits, including significant reductions in cost, that they can expect upon adoption.
- An Overview of DataCore’s SDS solution and the key differentiators that make it well equipped to handle the next generation of storage challenges.
NVMe and all-flash systems can solve any performance, floor space and energy problems. At least this is the marketing message many vendors and analysts spread today – but actually, sounds too good to be true, right?
Like always in real life, there is no clear black or white, but some circumstances you should be aware of – especially if you intend to leverage these technologies.
You may ask yourself: Do I need to rip and replace my existing storage? What is the best way to integrate both? What benefits do I receive?
Well, just join our brief webinar, which also includes a live demo and audience Q&A so you can get the most out of these technologies, make your storage great again and discover:
• How to integrate Flash over NVMe in real life
• How to benefit of some Flash/NVMe for your entire applications
Zero Downtime, Zero Touch Stretch Clusters from Software-Defined StorageDataCore Software
Business continuity, especially across data centers in nearby locations often depends on complicated scripts, manual intervention and numerous checklists. Those error-prone processes are exponentially more difficult when the data storage equipment differs between sites.
Such difficulties force many organizations to settle for partial disaster recovery measures, conceding data loss and hours of downtime during occasional facility outages.
In this webcast and live demo, you’ll learn about:
• Software-defined storage services capable of continuously mirroring data in
real-time between unlike storage devices.
• Non-disruptive failover between stretched cluster requiring zero touch.
• Rapid restoration of normal conditions when the facilities come back up.
From Disaster to Recovery: Preparing Your IT for the UnexpectedDataCore Software
Did you know that 22% of data center outages are caused by human error? Or that 10% are caused by weather incidents?
The impact of an unexpected outage for just a few hours or even days could be catastrophic to your business.
How would you like to minimize or even eliminate these business interruptions, and more?
Join us to discover:
• Useful and simple measures to use that can help you keep the lights on
• How to quickly recover when the worst-case scenario occurs
• How to achieve zero downtime and high availability
How to Integrate Hyperconverged Systems with Existing SANsDataCore Software
Hyperconverged systems offer a great deal of promise and yet come with a set of limitations.
While they allow enterprises to re-integrate system components into a single enclosure and reduce the physical complexity, floor space and cost of supporting a workload in the data center, they also often will not support existing storage in local SANs or offered by cloud service providers.
However, there are solutions available to address these challenges and allow hyperconverged systems to realize their promise. Sign up to discover:
• What are hyperconverged systems?
• What challenges do they pose?
• What should the ideal solution to those challenges look like?
• A solution that helps integrate hyperconverged systems with existing SANs
How to Avoid Disasters via Software-Defined Storage Replication & Site RecoveryDataCore Software
Shifting weather patterns across the globe force us to re-evaluate data protection practices in locations we once thought immune from hurricanes, flooding and other natural disasters.
Offsite data replication combined with advanced site recovery methods should top your list.
In this webcast and live demo, you’ll learn about:
• Software-defined storage services that continuously replicate data, containers and virtual machine images over long distances
• Differences between secondary sites you own or rent vs. virtual destinations in public Clouds
• Techniques that help you test and fine tune recovery measures without disrupting production workloads
• Transferring responsibilities to the remote site
• Rapid restoration of normal operations at the primary facilities when conditions permit
Despite years of industry advocacy, cloud adoption in larger firms remains slow. There are many logos for many vendors dotting the cloud technology landscape and many competing architectures. But there are also few standards that guarantee the interoperability of different approaches.
The latest buzz in enterprise cloud technology is around “hybrid cloud data centers” in which large enterprises “build their base” – that is, their core infrastructure, possibly as a “private cloud” – and “buy their burst” – that is, obtain additional public cloud- based resources and services to augment their on-premises capabilities during periods of peak workload handling, for application development, or for business continuity.
Ultimately, the adoption of cloud architecture will be gated by how successfully organizations are able to leverage emerging technologies in a secure and reliable manner and whether the resulting infrastructure actually delivers in the key areas of cost-containment, risk reduction and improved productivity.
Regardless of whether you use a direct attached storage array, or a network-attached storage (NAS) appliances, or a storage area network (SAN) to host your data, if this data infrastructure is not designed for high availability, then the data it stores is not highly available by extension, application availability is at risk – regardless of server clustering.
The purpose of this paper is to outline best practices for improving overall business application availability by building a highly available data infrastructure.
Download this paper to:
- Learn how to develop a High Availability strategy for your applications
- Identify the differences between Hardware and Software-defined infrastructures in terms of Availability
- Learn how to build a Highly Available data infrastructure using Hyper-converged storage
At TUI Cruises, a high level of availability and security are essential for IT systems at sea, and also pose a special challenge. Very fast and expensive shipyard time slots are needed for installation and maintenance. A consistent internet connection cannot always be guaranteed during remote maintenance at sea. Because of the monthly costs of about $50,000 for a 4-Mbit line, larger data transactions are not possible in any case.
After TUI Cruises adopted DataCore SANsymphony they benefited from:
- High level of availability, thanks to synchronous mirroring
- Transparent failover: if a section of a data center fails, the other side automatically takes over
- Scalable in terms of capacity, output, and performance
- Easy to use on-site, with worldwide remote management by the partner
With Thorntons having so many locations—operating across two time zones—basic store functionality is imperative and the reason why Thorntons is such a write-intensive enterprise. Everything that Thorntons does at the store level is considered “mission critical” and is contingent upon system uptime due to their 24/7/365 operation. Attaining non-stop business operations as well as better performance management and capacity management is what drove Thorntons to explore new alternatives to its Dell Compellent SANs that were deployed previously.
After Thorntons adopted DataCore SANsymphony they benefited from:
- Zero-downtime with SANsymphony software-defined storage deployed as two synchronous mirrors
- 50% faster backups (including VMware VMs and SQL
databases), which enables the number of full backups from one to three times a week
- Significant risk reduction attained due to the ability to replicate volumes instantaneously to both the primary and secondary sites
Top 3 Challenges Impacting Your Data and How to Solve ThemDataCore Software
Demands on your data have grown exponentially more difficult for IT departments to manage. Companies that fail to address this new reality risk not only data outages, but a significant loss of business. In this white paper we review the top 3 critical challenges impacting your data (maintaining uninterrupted service, scaling with increased capacity, and improving storage performance) and how to solve them.
Download this white paper to learn about:
- How to maintain data availability in the event of a catastrophic failure within the storage architecture due to hardware malfunctions, site failures, regional disasters, or user errors.
- How to optimize existing storage capacity and safely scale your storage infrastructure up and out to stay ahead of changing storage requirements.
- How to speed up response when reading and writing to disk while reducing latency to dramatically improve storage performance.
Business Continuity for Mission Critical ApplicationsDataCore Software
Unplanned interruption events, a.k.a. “disasters,” hit virtually all data centers at one time or another. While the preponderance of annual downtime results from interruptions that have a limited or localized scope of impact, IT planners must also prepare for the possibility of a catastrophic event with a broader geographical footprint.
Such disasters cannot be circumvented simply by using high availability configurations in servers or storage. What is needed, especially for mission-critical applications and databases, are strategies that can help organizations prevail in the wake of “big footprint” disasters, but that can also be implemented in a more limited way in response to interruption events with a more limited impact profile.
DataCore Software’s storage platform provides several capabilities for data protection and disaster recovery that are well-suited to today’s most mission-critical databases and applications.
Dynamic Hyper-Converged Future Proof Your Data CenterDataCore Software
IT organizations are continuously striving to reduce the amount of time and effort to deploy new resources for the business. Data center and remote office infrastructures are often complex and rigid to deploy, causing operational delays. As a result, many IT organizations are looking at a hyper-converged infrastructure.
Read this whitepaper to discover that a hyper-converged approach is flexible and easy to deploy and offers:
• Lower CAPEX because of lower up-front prices for infrastructure
• Lower OPEX through reductions in operational expenses and personnel
• Faster time-to-value for new business needs
Community Health Network Delivers Unprecedented Availability for Critical Hea...DataCore Software
The use of DataCore Software-Defined Storage resulted in providing CHN with a highly available infrastructure, improved application processing, and the total elimination of storage related downtime. Considering that CHN is using the SANsymphony software to virtualize and manage over 450TBs of data, with an environment supporting 14,000+ users, the seamless availability of all that data is certainly impressive.
With DataCore SANsymphony now in operation at Mission Community Hospital. storage management is less labor-intensive, systems are easily managed and data is simple to migrate when necessary. The overall cost effectiveness of DataCore storage virtualization software platform and DataCore's ability to make the physical storage completely "agnostic" so that hardware is interchangeable are just two of the great benefits for the hospital's IT team.
We have alot of exciting things happening at VMworld 2016. Both during the event and on our social channels. Check out this presentation to see everything we have going on and how you can participate and connect with us.
Integrating Hyper-converged Systems with Existing SANs DataCore Software
Hyper-converged systems offer a great deal of promise and yet come with a set of limitations. While they allow enterprises to re-integrate system components into a single enclosure and reduce the physical complexity, floor space and cost of supporting a workload in the data center, they also often will not support existing storage in local SANs or offered by cloud service providers. There are solutions available to address these challenges and allow hyper-converged systems to realize their promise. During this session you will learn:
- What are hyper-converged systems?
- What challenges do they pose?
- What should the ideal solution to those challenges look like?
- About a solution that helps integrate hyper-converged systems with existing SANs
Next to performance and scalability, cost efficiency is one of the top three reasons most companies cite as their motivations for acquiring storage technology. Businesses are struggling to control the storage costs, and to reduce OPEX costs for administrative staff, infrastructure and data management, and environmental and energy. Every storage vendor, it seems, including most of the Software-defined Storage purveyors, are promising ROIs that require nothing short of a suspension of disbelief.
In this presentation, Jon Toigo of the Data Management Institute digs out the root causes of high storage costs and sketches out a prescription for addressing them. He is joined by Ibrahim “Ibby” Rahmani of DataCore Software, who will address the specific cost efficiency advantages that are being realized by customers of Software-defined Storage
What will $0.08 get you with storage? Typically, not much. But, on $0.08 will change the way you think about storage and cause you to question everything storage vendors have told you. Find out more in this presentation