After reading through our previous blog installment, you’ve decided to move some of your infrastructure to a private or public cloud. You need live migration since your production environment is running 24/7. You don’t want to install any software on clients – maybe because you’re running legacy clients with obscure [...]
As a company primarily comprised of engineers, we at CDS can be fairly skeptical of the hype surrounding “the cloud,” mostly due to the tendency for marketers and thought leaders to promote any new fad as perfect for any application under the sun. But what if you’ve determined that certain [...]
Slow SAN?….hybridize it! Primary Flash storage solutions are quickly addressing the needs of many SAN based applications today. But does it take a wholesale change to meet these needs, or can a cache solution address these requirements? The answer depends on where you are today and how long you have [...]
Every now and then some new buzzword catches the public’s fancy and becomes a sensation that everyone (especially the “experts”) talks about with fervid enthusiasm. Each time this happens, I end up feeling like that naïve boy looking at the naked emperor (a very unpleasant sight). Today’s phrase is “Software [...]