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In the years to come, companies are going to face issues with handling humongous data as a study conducted by EMC states that the digital universe is growing 40% a year into the next decade. This raises a very vital and thought provoking question. What should we do with all this data? Until now the various stakeholders of data management have handled such data by purchasing new storage systems. Such an extension of the hardware can be expensive, ineffective and a complex architecture that would tend to create bottlenecks which would slow the system. The solution SDS looks like a promising solution to this problem of rising data. The management of the entire storage environment is based on a single software platform. It is not restricted by likes of controllers and is sans hardware restraints. This concept makes it possible to have a combination of hardware and software from various manufacturers operating together resulting in an improved and enhanced performance. I...

This Infographic by SDxCentral,  Plexxi , and  Lightspeed Venture Partners  details out the predicted market growth of SDN along the timeline till 2018. It enumerates the driving forces for SDN in the years to come and gives a brief current scenario. SDN market size is going to have a much larger impact on network spend and in much shorter time than anyone has predicted publicly. Read More To know more email:  blog@calsoftinc.com Calsoft Inc.

If you have been following us recently you would know of the wonderfully informative webinar our marketing folks put together with our technology team on the need for modern DataCenters to consider Storage that was Virtualization aware. I have to confess more than a passing interest in the whole Virtualization space since the early days when VMware was founded by fellow UC Berkeley alum Diane Green and Mendel Rosenblum in 1998 (incidentally the same year as Calsoft). Apart from these, more personal, connections the whole approach of running several instances of guest operating systems on the same hardware seemed fascinating. As a young company developing products in the Storage space this was a boon when it came to testing for load the products we were developing. Those days are, of-course, long gone and now the use cases for Virtualization in general and VMWare in particular are everywhere but let’s focus on their increasing role in the Data center. The Q is wh...

Disaster Recovery Plan is essentially a comprehensive strategy including people, processes, policies, and technologies, which ensures that the business quickly resumes and starts running smoothly after any disruption – natural or human-induced. The Disaster Recovery Plan needs to be well-thought-out and workable. Here is how businesses can go about preparing a solid Disaster Recovery Plan – Perform Business Impact Analysis The first step is to identify the services that support the critical functions of the organization. Start preparing a list of requirements and how they can impact the functioning of the organization. Identify the risks that can hamper the uptime of the business. The next step is to analyze the threats for probability and impact. It will help you setup the right priorities in your Disaster Recovery Plan. Here, you also need to define the Recovery Time Objectives (Targeted time duration and service level within which a business function must be restor...