Storage Industry – A recap and the road ahead

Storage industry has evolved in recent years. We have seen more data, and different kinds of data, generated by enterprises in the recent past. However with addition…

Hyper-V shared VHDX vs VHDX

With the introduction of Windows 2k12 R2, shared VHDX has been added along with VHDX (Virtual Hard disk Extended). VHDX supports higher LUN storage (64 TB) and…

Key Business and Engineering challenges for Startups

We are witnessing a rapidly changing world of technology which has attracted a large number of startups. The allure to launch a tech startup is easy to…

Basics of LUN and Target discovery on Windows

During my work with multipathing driver, I came across multiple situations where once devices were removed and added but they did not come back in time. Multi…

Getting a perspective of SAN Volume Controller HyperSwap

What’s there in a name? Well when it comes to HyperSwap, it is a complete giveaway. Whole game in the storage industry runs around high-availability. HyperSwap is…

Basics of Code Coverage Analysis

Many a times I was asked about Code Coverage Analysis, what is it and how can we measure it? Through this blog I will try to address…

Dell and EMC Merger: Why, and What It Means

Dell’s $67 billion acquisition of EMC is the biggest technology deal ever. This will prove to be an added advantage to Dell sales force, known for their…

All you need to know about cloud storage

Cloud storage is an evolved version of data storage, wherein the valuable data of enterprises are stored in and are accessible from various distributed and connected resources…

Change Block Tracking

In today’s world where massive data is created, it is important for enterprises to back- up their data else major business intelligence can be lost with no…

VAAI – is it a Mirage?

VMware vSphere® Storage APIs – Array Integration (VAAI), also known as hardware acceleration or hardware offload APIs, are a set of APIs enabling interaction between VMware vSphere…