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28 days ago
Contributed a review of VMware ESXi: Has a simplified deployment and monitoring abilities
About 1 month ago
Contributed a review of Hitachi VSP E Series: Achieves high performance and availability with a reliable and flexible storage solution
4 months ago
Asked a question: Does NetApp offers Capacity NVMs All-Flash Storage Arrays?
6 months ago
Contributed a review of Fujitsu Eternus DX Series: Offer reliable storage and servers, and their libraries are also very reliable
8 months ago
Contributed a review of NetApp SnapCenter: Integrates well with various applications , provides a cloning feature for creating snapshots or clones of volume and a centralized command
6 months ago
Contributed a review of NetApp Snapshot: Offers point-in-time copy functionality, restore process is very fast, and the resources are easy to configure
10 months ago
Contributed a review of Hitachi Content Platform: Integrates well with existing systems but technical support for the platform needs improvement
10 months ago
Contributed a review of NetApp StorageGRID: Object-based storage and offers intuitive management tools, making it easy to configure and maintain
12 months ago
Contributed a review of NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays: Ideal for applications, databases, and scenarios requiring good performance and easy to setup
About 1 year ago
Contributed a review of NetApp AFF: Good storage with ransomware protection and increased performance
About 1 year ago
Contributed a review of Pentaho Business Analytics: Excels in handling unstructured data, helping organizations navigate through different storage systems
About 1 year ago
Answered a question: Which backup and recovery solutions offer instant recovery?
It depends on the existing IT infrastructure setup, what to restore (file, db, application, virtual, physical, etc.), the size of the backup, the backup/restore media, and the link between the backup source and restore destination. Instant restore might not be possible if…
About 1 year ago
Answered a question: Which All-Flash Storage solution do you prefer and why?
I will recommend NetApp AFF as they claim and prove unmatched storage efficiency, security protection and the best business value. It is very simple to deploy and maintain.Data Security: Autonomous Ransomware ProtectionNetApp Volume EncryptionTrusted Platform Module…
About 1 year ago
Answered a question: How can I add new applications without having to buy more storage?
It depends on the remaining storage space and how much disk space you need to add your new application. Generally, at least you should have 20% of disk space available as of overall storage disk space utilization for smooth storage operations with seamless performance and…
About 1 year ago
Answered a question: Which Backup and Disaster Recovery solution is best for a medium-sized company?
Data backup and Disaster Recovery solutions (DRS) work differently. Vendors provide two different products/solutions, one for data backup and the other for DRS. I will also recommend using a separate product. In most of customer use cases, this will effectively provide…
About 1 year ago
Contributed a review of Fujitsu: A cost-effective storage solution with SAN solutions but doesn’t offer unified storage
About 1 year ago
Contributed a review of NetApp E-Series: A very cost-effective and reliable product for Big Data Analytics, Technical Computing, Video Surveillance, and Backup and Recovery
Over 1 year ago
Contributed a review of NetApp FAS Series: Provides good scalability and has an easy initial setup process
Over 1 year ago
Contributed a review of Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform: High availability and performance are key advantages, but configuration flexibility and pricing are drawbacks
Over 1 year ago
Contributed a review of SolidFire: Has seamless performance for the nodes and extensions
Over 2 years ago
Contributed a review of Hitachi Content Platform: Provides storage space for customers in sectors that require a large volume of data
Over 2 years ago
Contributed a review of NetApp StorageGRID: Great at meeting object storage challenges, very cost-effective
About 3 years ago
Answered a question: Which virtualization platform would you recommend to a healthcare company with 1000-5000 employees?
Well, need more details, however... If you're only concerned about a Server-based Virtualization selection then VMware is recommended
For VMware Lic selection & count, make a right-sized hardware selection. This is very critical to get a collectively cost-effective…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: When evaluating File and Object Storage, what aspect do you think is the most important to look for?
In basics, Object Storage is used for a massively scalable and flexible infrastructure, where a single very large storage name-space is required. Traditional storage may not work for you in that scenario; on the other hand, object storage is not fit for the transactional…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: What advice do you have for others considering NetApp StorageGRID?
Traditional Storage systems have limitations to create a larger namespace;
NetApp StorageGRID is a good fit for that use.
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: What are the advantages of all-flash storage over other types of storage?
The best benefit what I think is the step towards "Green-IT", as All-Flash has less weight, consumes low power, needs less conditioning/cooling and you can get more performance in a small foot-print (saves rack space)
It's still on the expensive side (referring to SAS-based…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: What advice do you have for others considering Amazon AWS?
For most of the customers looking for any public cloud service provider; as per my understandings, public cloud services should be acquired based on two basic going forward blocks/zero points/starting points to understand your needs
1) The scale of business requirements and…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: Open Banking Platforms - Mainframe migration to Cloud Based Data
Q1. What is the most important first step for a company to take when moving towards mainframe migration
Ans> The central approving/regulatory authorities (like a State Bank).
Q2. Where should evaluation of potential solutions begin in a large financial organization?
Ans>…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: What are some smart ways to streamline AWS data transfer costs?
This question requires more information to respond effectively
However, the response, for now, would be that you should use/buy/ storage solution from that vendor who has their SDS (Software-Defined Storage facility) with built-in an efficient data de-duplication feature…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: Can you recommend a platform capable of virtualising Sun Enterprise 450 (E450) hardware?
Enterprise 450 is a too old system; either you can buy another one and migrate the data, or use the path to go to the new hardware would be that you need to migrate your App/DB to the O/S compatible with newer hardware.
The nearest SPARC-based system to E450 is the Ultra…
Over 3 years ago
Answered a question: What is the difference between thick and thin provisioning?
What I would like to say here that thin provisioning in All-flash arrays should not be used because these boxes come with far better features regarding space usage; One of the relevant is built-in compression
Almost all storage manufacturers provide guaranteed compression…
Almost 4 years ago
Answered a question: Which should I choose: HPE 3PAR StoreServ or Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform F Series?
I would like to advise in general
1). Make your choice/selection based on your requirements; not based on product.
2). Find product(s) that best fit those requirements.
3). There are lot of features which are selling points for All-Flash Storage manufacturers; you will find…
Almost 4 years ago
Answered a question: Is all flash storage SSD?
Flash drives may be made of SSDs/Solid state drives but All SSDs may not be Flash
SSDs:
Solid State Drives
No seek time=Higher permanence than SAS/SATA
Not Fragile as SAS or SATA
Also offered in servers and some of storage systems as:
Read Optimized
Write Optimized
Mix…
Almost 4 years ago
Answered a question: What is the difference between thick and thin provisioning?
Option 1). Thick provisioning is "provisioning storage space(100GB) now"
Option 2). Thin provisioning is" provisioning storage space(100GB) on demand"
For 1). Disk space of 100GB will be immediately reduced from storage/back-end disk
If your data now is 1 GB and you can go…
Almost 4 years ago
Answered a question: What is VDI?
If a customer needs to eliminate physical desktops and their maintenance with a requirement of not less than 40-50 desktops then Virtual desktops would be a good option collectively
VDI is also being used where clients need to access their "application any where" or…
Almost 4 years ago
Answered a question: What are the advantages of all-flash storage over other types of storage?
The selection of All-Flash Storage Solutions depends on requirements and the goal any customer is looking to achieve at the end
All-Flash is not a fit for all requirements......
"If a customer needs a storage solution with high to extreme performance, Rack-space
efficient,…
About 4 years ago
Contributed a review of SolidFire: Simple to deploy and has good stability
Projects
About 1 year ago
NetApp Data Availability SolutionBusiness Requirements
The basic purpose and use of the proposed solution is to provide a storage data availability solution. Followings are the key business requirements accordingly listed as per discussion with customer's personals.
>>Customer is already using NetApp…
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NetApp FAS Series (1st)
NetApp AFF (1st)
SolidFire (1st)
NetApp Snapshot (1st)
NetApp SnapCenter (1st)
Hitachi Content Platform (1st)
NetApp StorageGRID (1st)
Fujitsu (1st)
Hitachi VSP E Series (1st)
NetApp E-Series (1st)
VMware ESXi (1st)
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Backup and Recovery (1st)
Deduplication Software (2nd)
Data Replication (1st)
NAS (1st)
Frame-Based Disk Arrays (1st)
All-Flash Storage (2nd)
Reporting (1st)
File and Object Storage (1st)
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About 1 month ago
Hitachi VSP E Series
6 months ago
Fujitsu Eternus DX Series
10 months ago
Hitachi Content Platform
10 months ago
NetApp StorageGRID
12 months ago
NetApp EF-Series All Flash Arrays
About 1 year ago
Pentaho Business Analytics
About 1 year ago
Fujitsu
Over 1 year ago
Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform
Over 2 years ago
Hitachi Content Platform
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About 1 year ago
Backup and Recovery
About 3 years ago
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Over 3 years ago
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Over 3 years ago
File and Object Storage
Over 3 years ago
All-Flash Storage
Over 3 years ago
Infrastructure as a Service Clouds (IaaS)
Over 3 years ago
Server Virtualization Software
Almost 4 years ago
All-Flash Storage
Almost 4 years ago
All-Flash Storage
About me
IT Technical Professional with 20+ years of work experience in challenging and business-critical data systems onsite support, running against time situations.
I like to share knowledge with team members, customers, and peers. Almost doing something like that every day during support activities in Banking, Telco, Oil&Gas sectors, NGOs, and Universities.;
IT verticals are Servers, Storage System Hardware Setup, Staging O/S, and Virtualization.
IT Solution designing and Technical Support; Managing the IT department at SynergyComputers (Pvt) Ltd . Islamabad Pakistan.
Interesting Projects and Accomplishments
About 1 year ago
