TrueCommand Brings Unified Management and Predictive Analytics to ZFS Storage

June 20, 2019

Many businesses are embarking on digital transformation initiatives that will put technology at the core of business value creation. At the same time, many of these same businesses are seeking to reduce or eliminate the cost of managing IT infrastructure. Storage vendors are addressing these seemingly incompatible goals by investing in new storage management capabilities including unified management, automation, predictive analytics, and proactive support. Now iXsystems has released TrueCommand to bring the benefits of unified storage management with predictive analytics to owners of its ZFS-based TrueNAS and FreeNAS arrays.

All-inclusive Software Licensing: Best Feature Ever … with Caveats

January 17, 2019

On the surface, all-inclusive software licensing sounds great. You get all the software features that the product offers at no additional charge. You can use them – or not use them – at your discretion. It simplifies product purchases and ongoing licensing. But what if you opt not to use all the product’s features or only need a small subset of them? In those circumstances, you need to take a hard look at any product that offers all-inclusive software licensing to determine if it will deliver the value that you expect.

Predictive Analytics in Enterprise Storage: More Than Just Highfalutin Mumbo Jumbo

March 22, 2018

Enterprise storage startups are pushing the storage industry forward faster and in directions it may never have gone without them. It is because of these startups that flash memory is now the preferred place to store critical enterprise data. Startups also advanced the customer-friendly all-inclusive approach to software licensing, evergreen hardware refreshes, and pay-as-you-grow utility pricing. These startup-inspired changes delight customers, who are rewarding these startups with large follow-on purchases and Net Promoter Scores (NPS) previously unseen in this industry. Yet the greatest contribution startups may make to the enterprise storage industry is applying predictive analytics to storage.

HP 3PAR StoreServ’s VVols Integration Brings Long Awaited Storage Automation, Optimization and Simplification to Virtualized Environments

June 1, 2015

VMware Virtual Volumes (VVols) stands poised to fundamentally and positively change storage management in highly virtualized environments that use VMware vSphere. However enterprises will only realize the full benefits that VVols have to offer by implementing a backend storage array that stands ready to take advantage of the VVols architecture. The HP 3PAR StoreServ family of arrays provide the virtualization-first architecture along with the simplicity of implementation and ongoing management that organizations need to realize the benefits that the VVols architecture provide short and long term.

HP 3PAR StoreServ Management Console Answers the Call for Centralized, Simplified Storage Operations Management without Technical Compromise

April 10, 2015

Scalable. Reliable. Robust. Well performing. Tightly integrated with hypervisors such as Microsoft Windows and VMware ESXi. These attributes are what every enterprise expects production storage arrays to possess and deliver. But as enterprises grow their infrastructure, they need to manage more storage arrays with the same or fewer number of IT staff. This requirement moves storage array manageability center stage which plays directly into the strengths of HP 3PAR StoreServ storage arrays and HP 3PAR StoreServ Management Console (SSMC).

Three Specific Use Cases for the Successful Implementation of Software-defined Storage

March 13, 2015

The introduction of first generation software-defined storage solutions (often implemented as appliance and storage controller-based virtualization) went terribly awry when they were originally introduced years ago for reasons that the industry probably only now fully understands and can articulate well.

Three Specific Use Cases for the Successful Implementation of Software-defined Storage

March 13, 2015

The introduction of first generation software-defined storage solutions (often implemented as appliance and storage controller-based virtualization) went terribly awry when they were originally introduced years ago for reasons that the industry probably only now fully understands and can articulate well. While the value of software-defined storage has never been disputed, best practices associated with its implementation, management and support short and long term took time to develop. We are now seeing the fruits of these efforts as evidenced by some of the successful ways in which software-defined storage solutions are packaged and shipped.

The HP XP7 Storage Virtual Array Capability Marks the Beginning of the End of the Pain of Data Consolidations and Migrations

April 23, 2014

Delivering always-on application availability accompanied by the highest levels of capacity, management and performance are the features that historically distinguish high end storage arrays from other storage arrays available on the market. But even these arrays struggle to easily deliver on a fundamental data center task: migrating data from one physical array to another. The introduction of the storage virtual array feature into the new HP XP7 dramatically eases this typically complex task as it facilitates data consolidations and migrations by migrating entire storage virtual arrays from one physical array frame to another while simplifying array management in the process.

Heterogeneous Environments Still Alive and Kicking Despite Decline of Independent Third Party Storage Conferences

January 10, 2014

As I was planning my 2014 calendar over the past two weeks, I noticed that two storage conferences that focused on heterogeneous computing environments and

The Era of Application-Storage Convergence Has Arrived

September 10, 2013

Converged infrastructures are emerging as the next “Big Thing” in enterprise datacenters with servers, storage and networking delivered as a single SKU. Yet what providers are beginning to recognize – and what organizations should begin to expect – is that unprecedented jumps in application performance and resource optimization are now possible. The first examples of these jumps are seen in today’s ZS3 Storage Systems announcement from Oracle as it raises the bar in terms of how Oracle Database performance and resource utilization can be delivered while ushering in a new era of application-storage convergence.

Category: Storage Management

TrueCommand Brings Unified Management and Predictive Analytics to ZFS Storage

All-inclusive Software Licensing: Best Feature Ever … with Caveats

Predictive Analytics in Enterprise Storage: More Than Just Highfalutin Mumbo Jumbo

HP 3PAR StoreServ’s VVols Integration Brings Long Awaited Storage Automation, Optimization and Simplification to Virtualized Environments

HP 3PAR StoreServ Management Console Answers the Call for Centralized, Simplified Storage Operations Management without Technical Compromise

Three Specific Use Cases for the Successful Implementation of Software-defined Storage

Three Specific Use Cases for the Successful Implementation of Software-defined Storage

The HP XP7 Storage Virtual Array Capability Marks the Beginning of the End of the Pain of Data Consolidations and Migrations

Heterogeneous Environments Still Alive and Kicking Despite Decline of Independent Third Party Storage Conferences

The Era of Application-Storage Convergence Has Arrived

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