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As the data centers in the world are growing in number and size, there is a point of concern for the people living on Earth. The two giants of cloud storage Amazon and Microsoft are competing with each other in launching as many data centers as they can. Resultantly, AWS (Amazon Web Services) has launched a data center in Bahrain, yes you read it right, it is Bahrain. Azure   Cloud storage is going to the unpaved paths really, with no destination in sight. I know what you guys will be thinking about, data storage needs the systems to remain cool in order to perform well. Whereas, in the Middle East, heat can be the biggest opponent in operating a data center. Don’t you think they must have figured out a plan before the announcement? Definitely they would have made a feasible plan and must have announced it after getting complete confidence in the plan. The main point of concern is that after establishing data centers in the Scandinavian countries where cooling was not ...

Virtualization has become very famous and common in the world now. It has lead businesses and enterprises to go for software defined storage instead of the traditional hardware storage solutions. This article is going to discuss the reasons why businesses are preferring SDS over HDSS. The main reason is that SDS is free of hardware and is not dependent on it. It makes it a very free and easy to use storage solution. Let us discuss what more SDS has to of fer.  Users can add Terabytes or even Petabytes of additional storage to their new or existing StoneFly Enterprise SAN storage systems. A Single Management Console Enterprise are switching to the software based storage solutions because there is a central and single console that manages the storage and also due to the features and functionalities it offers. Multiple consoles can not only take more place on premise, more energy would be consumed, and more maintenance cost will be the result. Most importantly the...