Storage Servers in the Data Center

Local storage -- shared or not -- brings with it additional responsibilities, space, power, cooling, data protection, dealing with expansion. This Information Week Blog takes an in-depth look at when data centers may need local storage, shared storage or hybrid solutions.

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"As we discussed in our article 'Getting Your Arms Around The Cloud' there are a growing number of cloud based storage solutions targeted directly at reducing the need for primary storage in the data center. In our testing most of these solutions will work by leveraging a hybrid storage model where the active part of the dataset is kept locally for speed of access but all of the dataset is stored at the remote storage provider’s location. The local device typically either runs as a virtual machine within a virtual infrastructure or is a purpose built appliance. In either case the storage on the local system, since it is much smaller in size, can be very high speed, even solid state disk."

Read the Full "Does Every Data Center Need Storage?" Story at Information Week Blogs