Data is growing exponentially leading to runaway storage costs. The leading cause of this growth is the increasing amount of unstructured data generated both by individuals as well as applications. To control this growth enterprises need to use advanced technologies such as compression to reduce storage footprint while continuing to meet application SLAs. Learn how Symantec’s Veritas Storage Foundation helps customers control these costs by bringing compression to the file system.  Read the compete Primary Storage Compression with Storage Foundation solution brief now.

Solid State drives have been gaining the markets interest for the past few years. Walking Around the Storage Expo this year in Earls Court it did occur to me that this was a technology Much Thin Provisioning that was here to stay. Increasingly the variety of implementations available from true SSD arrays  to Memory Accelerators is more and more mainstream.

From the customers I speak with people are also less hung up on the technical details And are focusing more on the impact to the applications themselves. This can only mean One thing – that the IT industry is finally accepting SSD’s in all their glory are the future of storage. SSD’s  not only open the door to massive IO performance but also highlight technologies like Storage Tiering Which SSD is really an enabler for not to mention VDI which seems a sweet spot for the technology. What is clear is Solid State technologies are here to stay, what implementation becomes the market leader... Only...

First, thanks to those who wrote me, both online and offline, about my last post on the distribution of cluster node counts. As a follow-up, here’s a look at cluster asymmetry – that is, how often a cluster’s nodes are not identical. This is a non-academic question, since we’re in the process of adding new servers to SORT’s cluster. It’s been a few years since our last hardware refresh, so our server model is no longer available, plus all newer models come with more CPU and memory than our current boxes.

So, I looked at how often we see asymmetric clusters among configurations customers have uploaded to SORT:

As shown above, a third of the clusters showed any kind of asymmetry. Memory was the most common. A careful review of the graph shows ‘Any’ is less than the sum of the other categories. In...

If you are interested in learning about the latest Storage Foundation and High Availability 6.0 solutions from the comfort of your own desk, Symantec is hosting a virtual event on December 8th beginning at 8:00am PST.  At the event, we will discuss how Symantec is helping customers transform their existing infrastructure into a resilient private cloud, as well as providing a deeper dive on new functionality included in Storage Foundation, Veritas Cluster Server, Veritas Operations Manager, ApplicationHA and other solutions. 

At the event you will learn how Symantec is helping IT organizations: 

• Enable high availability and disaster recovery capabilities for entire business services
• Provide elastic storage services based on business patterns
• Manage the entire environment from a single console

Getting the private cloud you want from the infrastructure you've got is a different approach that you...