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Storage Administrators Of 2015: Must-Have Skills

George Crump

October 20, 2011

What's your three-year career plan? Make sure you have the knowledge that will be required to handle storage systems of the future.

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Can Integrated Storage Systems Survive?

George Crump

October 14, 2011

Storage hardware vendors need to build reliable gear that compliments the services and feature sets being added to hypervisors.

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Do You Need A Storage Performance Manager?

George Crump

October 12, 2011

It may be time to create a position that that crosses the functional boundaries of applications, servers, hypervisors, and storage to take a holistic view of performance.

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Mixed Vendor Storage Virtualization: Why It Makes Sense

George Crump

October 05, 2011

Why the time is right for users to abandon turnkey storage solutions for best-of-breed options.

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Load The Right Data On Server SSDs

George Crump

September 27, 2011

Consider booting from SSD to bring servers back online quickly and using PCIe SSD with caching software to accelerate operating system and application data functions.

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Which Server SSD Should You Choose?

George Crump

September 22, 2011

Solid-state storage can solve performance problems in the data center. But which form factor is the best to install in your server?

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Storage Virtualization Tour: All About Automated Tiering

George Crump

September 20, 2011

Leverage a virtualized storage system’s granular understanding of block of data to automatically move data segments to faster or slower storage tiers, based on access patterns.

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Hypervisors May Break Storage Vendor Lock-In

George Crump

September 16, 2011

All that's needed is to address some of the core storage shortcomings of the hypervisor, like providing solid performance while using thin provisioning, snapshots, and clones.

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The Myth Of Vertically Integrated Storage Systems

George Crump

September 14, 2011

Vertically integrated storage systems have some benefits, but too many vendors make claims about vertical integration that aren't backed up by their products.

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How To Make Use Of Scale-Out Storage

George Crump

September 12, 2011

IT managers are increasingly looking at high-capacity storage systems to help with server virtualization infrastructures, Big Data, and online applications.

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Why Storage Performance Metrics Mean Little

George Crump

September 02, 2011

Storage performance benchmarks only show you what the systems can do if the organization has an unlimited IT budget.

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Can Storage Virtualization Ease Vendor Lock-In?

George Crump

August 26, 2011

Storage virtualization systems let you use any vendor's hardware and bring it under a single storage services umbrella. It's not nirvana yet--but we're making progress.

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