Different enterprises have different ways of managing their technology refresh. Some use three- or five-year depreciation cycles. Others use informal refresh cycles based on loose guidelines. Still others wait for the server or storage array to die before replacing it. With an uncertain economy and IT budget cuts, postponing hardware replacement to delay capital expenditure ...

The power of software-defined storage (SDS) lies in separating hardware and data services from management to optimize costs for small to midsize businesses, remote sites, and cloud service providers. Learn the meaning of SDS and how this new technology can help you build a flexible architecture that offers opportunities for simplified management across your data ...

The big difference between the transition from physical to virtual machines and the forthcoming shift from HDD-based to all-flash arrays is that organisations will rarely have the luxury of first trial hosting their 2nd and 3rd tier applications on all-flash storage arrays. The performance and cost associated with these all-flash storage arrays immediately positions them ...

Today, enterprises are migrating many of their legacy production workloads, like relational databases, messaging systems, and file systems, onto virtual infrastructure. Many of these combined workloads demand hundreds of thousands of IOPS delivered with sub-millisecond latencies, and as a result, flash media has become a mainstream storage technology for enterprises of all kinds and sizes…rn ...

For small and midsize businesses, the realities of a dynamic marketplace and ever-changing customer expectations pose continual challenges and opportunities. Big Data, the cloud and mobility are changing the way information moves and connections are made across the organisation, offering productive potential while promising competitive advantage. But adoption of these advanced technologies will require a ...