Name: The Intelligent Approach to Storage & Virtualization
Start: 2016-10-20T15:00:00Z
End: 2016-10-20T15:55:25.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 3

FreeStor's unique horizontal architecture opens up a new world of storage opportunities, allowing IT managers to maximize efficiencies and reduce costs. Take advantage of cloud, hybrid/cloud, SDS and Flash storage — without having to invest in new technology or rip and replace.

An Update on Current and Future FalconStor Business

FalconStor: A State of the Business

Join Peter McCallum and Gavin McLaughlin as they reconvene for part two in their discussion series on the state of the modern storage industry. For this segment, Gavin and Pete will discuss the convoluted reality of white-box or commodity storage hardware, and how it couples with software to provide real storage services for businesses. Ultimately, this overview should arm you with the concepts to look for as you shop across build-it-yourself, packaged open-source, decoupled heterogeneous, and proprietary storage paradigms. We’ll look at cost factors, gotchas, and key considerations as we review the incumbent and new players in our industry.

How To Actually Leverage The New World of Low-Cost Commodity Storage

The storage industry is going through a welcome change.  With the increased commoditization of storage hardware, coupled with the increased pricing competitiveness of public cloud services, many storage buyers are now realizing the flexibility and new options available to them.  This webcast with Peter McCallum, VP Datacenter Solution Architecture, joined by Gavin McLaughlin, a 30 year veteran of the storage industry,  discusses the change in the industry and provides recommendations on how storage buyers can take advantage of this new world.

Why Storage Vendors Are Feeling The Squeeze

More so than ever before, businesses are requiring IT to become less about infrastructure and more about availability and mobility of data. Yesterday’s IT shops were defined by the technology they chose to use rather than capabilities they could deliver to the business and its workforce. End users have become more savvy and less willing to accept limitations of traditional, static services. Technology has to adapt to timing, location and value of data on a global basis without restrictions.  Based on these trends, FreeStor grew from roots in static infrastructure to now support the widest interoperability across storage platforms, protocols, hypervisors, clouds, and applications in the industry. See how FreeStor is helping to drive the goal of “infrastructure anywhere” for seamless delivery of data anywhere users need to be.

“The Best Way To Predict Your Future Is To Create It.”

Let’s explore the cost of storage in the 1990’s, 2000’s, and today.  How has the impact of technology changed the cost of storage?  Are you considering moving to the Cloud?  Are you looking to modernize your datacenter?  The industry is constantly introducing new terms, such as Software Defined Storage, that make you wonder if you are protecting your data with the best possible solution.  We will discuss new technology that can help you lower costs and get more out of your infrastructure investment. Choose the right storage for your environment that results in a cost savings.  

Alan Komet and Peter McCallum have spoken worldwide discussing storage issues, helping businesses make intelligent decisions.

The Economics of Storage

Digitalization and cloud technology have resulted in better economic performance for enterprise customers and service providers. Workloads can now be located in proper storage destinations -  in the cloud, at a hosted provider or on-premise.  

Enterprise customers are not only evaluating the storage destination and type but the appropriate hypervisors and operating systems to match the service levels and economic costs of the workloads they need to support.

FreeStor, on its third iteration in less than 18 months, is 100% focused on delivering high-performance block-based storage services that customers need - at public cloud prices. Customers have been in need of such services but have been unable to achieve this level of service with traditional branded suppliers.  FreeStor gives customers total choice to build the right destination, on the right storage paradigm for the right price and service level.

Delivering Upon The FreeStor Vision

FreeStor is the most comprehensive and truly agnostic software-defined storage management platform on the market today. Delivering end to end management, features include Intelligent Abstraction, Intelligent Predictive Analytics, Intelligent Action and Intelligent Pricing.

Join this session to stay on top of the latest software-defined storage and cloud storage trends and features, including:
Cloud Enablement
New Data Analytics and Reporting
Secure Multi Tenancy
Client Management
Performance
Linux 7 Support

When it comes to managing your data center, choosing a cloud storage option and optimizing your data analytics, the waters can get muddy. Save your seat to help sort through the clutter!

An Intelligent Approach to Cloud Storage

Technology to Rock Every Workload: The All-Flash Data Center is Now a Reality

Flash Storage: Virtualization Unleashed

Storage Performance Benchmarking: File Components

Storage & Virtualization – Enabling Next Generation Data Centers & SDDI

All-Flash Versus Hybrid VMware Virtual SAN™: Performance vs. Price

The Storage For Virtualization Maze: Finding the Right Path

Optimizing Storage for Virtualization in Windows Server

Virtualization: The Key to Approachable Disaster Recovery

Docker: Volume Drivers, Storage, and You

Storage and Virtualization

How do IT organizations manage data and control costs across paradigms in a way that does not restrict or prohibit portability? How do IT organizations provide consistent core-to-edge insight, capabilities and data services regardless of the location, vendor or platform? As organizations move to Software-Defined Data Centers, new approaches are required to address long-standing challenges, such as the need for interoperability, insight, and common tools. Modernizing existing infrastructure results in IT organizations needing to achieve  greater efficiencies, reduced downtime, lower costs, and improved simplicity in a way that only a software-defined approach can deliver.

Addressing These Challenges With A Unique Architecture

-Choose the right storage paradigm
-For the right service-level  
-With the right performance and economic benefit 

It's time to break the cycle of vendor lock-in

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