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Storage Switzerland to Present at SNW Europe - On October 26th George Crump, Lead Analyst at Storage Switzerland, will deliver a presentation entitled "Managing The Storage Challenges Created By Desktop Virtualization". Join Storage Switzerland in Frankfurt Germany for an informative discussion of this increasingly important subject matter.

October 26th and 27th 2010

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9/2/10 VMworld Updates: Click here to view our ongoing updates from VMworld. We will do our best to provide updates throughout the conference.

9/2/10 Article by George Crump: Enhancing Server And Desktop Virtualization With SSD - Part One - Cost Justification - How a physical system will perform in the virtual environment is a key concern as users begin to look to extend the reach of their virtual infrastructures and increase the density of virtual machines (VM) per physical host. In many cases server administrators find that they’re not limited by CPU or memory but by storage performance....[MORE]

8/30/10 Blog by George Crump: BlueArc To Use Permabit's Deduplication Engine - When Permabit first introduced their deduplication API in June, the big question was when would the first announcement be of someone using their Albireo engine? While I had insight, under confidentiality agreements, into some of the partners they were working with it wasn’t until today that BlueArc went public with the news. BlueArc looks to be able to provide an optimized storage capability with little to no impact to performance and without having to manage the separate storage area that a post process would require....[MORE]

8/30/10 Lab Report by George Crump: Nasuni Test Drive - Recovering With Cloud Snapshots - The Nasuni Filer has officially moved into production for Storage Switzerland. It now holds all our home directory data, which for us is mission critical, this is the content we produce so it is in essence our product. One of the key things that we wanted to make sure of is that we were able to recover data if there is an accidental deletion or more likely, saving over the same file....[MORE]

8/27/10 Article by George Crump: Deduplication Storage Systems Ease VMware Backup Pain - VMware solves a lot of problems in the data center. It can also create some new challenges or stretch existing processes to the breaking point. One of these is the already tenuous backup and disaster recovery process. There is a heightened concern about backup in the virtualized environment since a single, physical server can impact so many virtual ones. In this situation, a well implemented deduplication system can enable backup, recovery and DR to handle the pressures brought upon existing infrastructure....[MORE]