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• Exchange Optimization — Metalogix Exchange Manager

  

  Published on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012 in New Research

  Email with Microsoft Exchange is one of the most critical applications in almost all businesses and organizations. The continued growth in the number of emails and the amount of data transferred via email creates an increasing set of problems for Information Technology. Keeping the Exchange environment under control and optimized to meet the organization demands ...continue reading

• Organization structures need optimization — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

  

  Published on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012 in Press

  One of the most important parts of optimizing the data center involves improving storage efficiency. And that requires more than implementing the latest technologies. While working with IT operations in developing strategies to increase storage efficiency, it has become clear to me that organizational structure must change in order to expedite data center optimization. Like ...continue reading

  Tags: complexity, Data Center Optimization, optimization, storage Efficiency

• What’s different about storage for virtual desktops? — Data-Driven Blog by John Webster

  

  Published on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 in EGI Blogs

  It is often said that data center-level server virtualization projects created a renewed demand for networked storage, both NAS and SAN. If that’s true, then efforts to virtualize desktops–aka virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) projects–will create renewed demand for high-performance storage, both network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN). Storage performance is a major determinant ...continue reading

  Tags: SSD, VDI, VDI storage, Virtualization

• Hitachi NAS Platform Reduces Operational Costs and Offers Greater Centralized Management of VDI Deployments

  

  Published on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 in Press

  VDI-IOmark Testing Shows High Performance and Scalability Capabilities for VDI Environments to Help Organizations Achieve Greater Return on Storage Assets SANTA CLARA, Calif. — February 14, 2012 — Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), today announced that Hitachi NAS Platform, powered by BlueArc®, has achieved ...continue reading

  Tags: Hatchi, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, NAS, VDI storage, vdi-iomark

• VDI-IOmark, A Storage Specific Benchmark For VDI, Announces First Publicly Available Results With Hitachi HNAS Platform

  

  Published on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012 in Press

  VDI-IOmark for VMware View Provides Real Workload Measurement and Cost of Ownership Boulder, CO (PRWEB) February 14, 2012. VDI-IOmark releases the first public benchmark results with Hitachi Data Systems on their Hitachi NAS Platform (HNAS), powered by BlueArc®.  Recognizing data storage is a major success component for VDI deployments, and that there has been no ...continue reading

  Tags: BlueArc, HDS, Hitachi Data Storage, HNAS, VDI, VDI storage, vdi-iomark, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, Virtualization, VMware, VMware View

• Part 2 on Strategies, Surveys and Requirements , a blog by Camberley Bates

  

  Published on Monday, February 13th, 2012 in EGI Blogs

  Previously I discussed the value of surveys and their role (or dysfunction) in making decisions. If surveys can lead a Product Manager astray, how to best to gather information to decide on requirements and futures? In comes contextual interviewing -  Contextual interviewing is best done with a large group of interviews where you can choose ...continue reading

  Tags: Big Data, business analytics, data analytics, solutions, storage buying decisions

• Storage System Design for Mixed Workloads — New Research

  

  Published on Monday, February 13th, 2012 in New Research

  Consolidating different storage platforms into a larger, more efficient system can offer multiple benefits — reduced operational costs, reduced power and cooling requirements, reduced physical space, and reduction in overall system costs. But what’s required of a storage system to support mixed workloads? To understand the architectural and feature requirements necessary to effectively meet the ...continue reading

  Tags: SAN Storage, Starboard Storage

• Beware of IT inertia — Storage Soup Blog by Randy Kerns

  

  Published on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 in EGI Blogs

  In information technology, the part of Newton’s laws of motion regarding inertia where a body at rest tends to stay at rest is often prevalent. In IT, this law means changes are increasingly difficult to make because change is often resisted. Resistance to change means missed opportunities to integrate new technologies, improve processes and become ...continue reading

  Tags: complexity

• EMC VFCache Client Advisory Note

  

  Published on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 in New Research

  On February 6, 2012, EMC announced the VFCache product which was previously previewed to analysts as Project Lightning.  The VFCache product consists of both hardware and software that resides within a server to enhance performance for some applications. Download...continue reading

  Tags: Big Data, data center storage, EMC, flash, NAS, PCIe, SAN

• Communicating or Telling?, blog post by Camberley Bates

  

  Published on Monday, February 6th, 2012 in EGI Blogs

  The last few weeks I experienced two great examples of Communicating or Telling. One, was Ash, the CEO of Actifio.  Peter Levine of A16Z said we needed to see what they were doing, so John Webster and I trooped over to their office to get a look. Instead of the ubiquitous 15 slide presentation we ...continue reading

  Tags: a16z, Actifio, Business plans, Chad Sakac, data storage education, education, Peter Levine, solutions and storage, storage buying decisions, value marketing