data center storage

July 10, 2017

DATA CENTER

Struggling with scaling data storage? You’re not alone!

In this new digital economy, data is king and storing it requires a well-funded army. At least it does when you maintain the status quo with legacy storage solutions. In this scenario, cost and complexity often impede a business’s ability to scale and adapt to these new digital demands. This signals…

May 4, 2017

DATA CENTER

Heading to New Orleans for VeeamON 2017 this year? So is Cisco at Expo booth #104!

Heading to New Orleans for VeeamON 2017 this year? So is Cisco and we would love to talk to you about what we have been doing in the data protection space with Cisco Unified Computing! This is our second time at VeeamON, we were a proud sponsor of Veeam’s inaugural customer event in 2015. Our own Si…

April 17, 2017

DATA CENTER

Is Facebook’s new storage platform performance hungry?

I promised a follow up in my recent blog about Facebook’s new Bryce Canyon storage platform. While the title of this blog may sound like it questions the new platform’s capabilities. It like the previous blog aims to help you understand why it is perfectly suited for Facebook’s unique ne…

February 6, 2017

DATA CENTER

What do Cisco UCS S-Series and Facebook’s Open Vault both have in common?

Everyone these days seems to want to operate like the massive scale data center operators or at least capitalize on the economies of scale they created in their wake. It’s a familiar trickle-down economics idea that sounds great on paper but doesn’t always operationalize well for the rest of the wor…