GridIron and the Performance Race

Recent innovators like GridIron are tackling extreme performance with shared appliances that sit in front of shared storage environments.

Dealing with cloud storage service providers

In this tip series, Arun Taneja, founder and president of Taneja Group, offers his best cloud tips to users. In part one, Arun tells users how to ensure they get their data out of a cloud storage repository if they decide to switch cloud storage service providers or bring their data back in-house.

Amazon Defines Big Data As Big Opportunity

According to Amazon, size doesn’t really matter in their definition of Big Data.  Instead, it’s more about the threshold where distributed processing solutions like Elastic Map Reduce start providing cost-effective development and operations.

NetApp E-Series and Big Potential

NetApp is demonstrating some interesting evolution in the E-Series technology through the intersection of their traditional expertise with this new block technology.

NetApp E-Series and the Dynamic Disk Pool

NetApp’s DDP is going a long way towards protecting active big data environments.

Virtual Instruments and Data Centers, and Why it Matters. A Lot.

In March I published my article on meaningful visibility into the data center. I mentioned several vendors who are doing good work in this challenging field including Virtual Instruments (VI).

There are lots of monitoring, capacity planning and general trending products out there. These vendors market their products to virtualization and cloud markets hoping to catch the big wave of investment in those fields. There is nothing wrong with these tools and IT needs them in discrete settings, but they don’t go nearly far enough in managing new levels of data center complexity. They offer some visibility, but dynamic data centers require not only information but also the ability to correlate information across multiple systems and to automatically act on it. We call this crucial piece of the puzzle “instrumentation.”