
Shedding Tiers--Creating a Simpler, More Manageable Storage Infrastructure
Managing multiple buckets (or tiers) is always going to be more difficult than managing a single storage repository, and quite frequently, the overhead in configuring and managing a multi-tier infrastructure is more trouble than it is worth. Data storage managers are investigating how to shed tiers instead of adding them. Computer Technology Review

NFS offers virtualization benefits
New appliances provide an alternative to typical Fibre Channel and iSCSI approaches.Communication News

2008 Forecast: Mapping Your Data Center Caching Strategy
Centralized caching is a new model for deploying memory in the data center that brings all the benefits of cache without the limitations of current approaches.Computer Technology Review

Virtualization - Overcome the input /output pitfalls
While consolidated server deployments in a virtualized server environment can crank up utilization rates, this practice also allows large numbers of clients (real and virtual) to access data simultaneously on a single storage system. Communication News

2007 in Review: Scaling Business Analytics Applications
In the quest to make business analytics and intelligence applications more accessible to more users, companies often spend unnecessarily on underlying infrastructure to support these goals. Computer Technology Review

Ending the Application Waiting Game
Ironically, despite the enormous processing speed and advanced capabilities of robust application server platforms, often times these systems have to wait to process and deliver data from underlying disk-based storage. Enterprise Networks and Servers

Scaling Content Delivery for IPTV and WebTV
Centralized storage caching solution delivers digital content quicker for on-demand WebTV and IPTV. Converge! Network Digest

Delivering capacity and performance
Centralized storage caching and global namespaces work together Communication News

Computer Technology Review: Building an Accelerated Archive
Combining large capacity, ready access, and instant acceleration for digital content repositories. Computer Technology Review

Centralized storage caching fixes the EDA compute bottleneck
Complementing storage systems with high capacity, high throughput, instant access cache restores infrastructure balance and boosts overall productivity of EDA applications. EE Times

Shorten EDA Cycles With Storage Acceleration
Centralized storage caching enables faster time to market by accelerating performance, improving productivity of large design teams, and ensuring high quality of service. Electronic Design