Disaster Recovery Solution

There is one simple question to ask, to determine whether business needs a backup and disaster recovery plan: “Can business continue to function with any critical data,…

Software Defined Network (SDN) – Present, Past and Future.

Before we move ahead let us understand the 3 generations of networking. The first generation of networking was primarily dominated by mainframes. Organizations invested a lot of…

When & Why You Should Use Docker or VMs – A Quick Comparison

I have heard people comparing Docker with VMs, but the fact is they both are complementary technologies. They don’t compete with each other; both of them have…

Top 5 Storage Startups in 2015

Every year storage startups brings lot of dynamism and churn in the entire storage industry. Some of them disappear quickly, some disappear painfully, some gets acquired and…

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…

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…

A Salute to a Worthy Winner of the Turing Award

The Turing Award given by the Association for Computing Machinery has been called “The Nobel Prize of Computing”. The stipulation says the award should be given to…

SDDC Rediscovering its Magnificence

SDDC the abbreviation of Software defined data centre has become the latest jargon used by anybody and everybody in the Storage, Virtualization and cloud technology domain. It…

Top ten storage start-ups in 2015

The storage Industry seems to be looking ahead in 2015.  This is due to a fresh cycle of investments and new technologies like cloud based technologies, e-commerce…

Introduction to Linux Containers and Docker

LINUX CONTAINERS The Linux Containers (LXC) feature is a lightweight virtualization mechanism that does not require you to set up a virtual machine on an emulation of…