Despite the ever increasing acceptance of the cloud, an undeniable reality is most organizations will have data they will never put into the cloud. At the same time these organizations “get” the value of an elastic storage infrastructure that they…
Yearly Archives: 2016
Amazon AWS re:Invent – Amazon Goes Snowmobiling
One of the biggest challenges facing an organization contemplating a move to the cloud is ingestion. How do you get all your data to the cloud in a timely manner? Sure you could replicate it, but if the organization’s data…
StorageSwiss at Amazon AWS re:Invent
Storage Switzerland is at Amazon AWS re:Invent again this year. We are lurking the halls of re:Invent, tackling vendors and users to get their thoughts on what’s going on with the cloud. Amazon re:Invent Bigger Than VMworld VMworld has been…
A Turnkey Storage Architecture for OpenStack and Docker
Scale-Out All-Flash Solution with Micron, Nexenta and SuperMicro Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions bring the ultimate in flexibility but it does require that IT professionals work through the process of fine tuning the software with both the storage hardware and…
The Role of Object Storage in HPC Environments?
For most High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, high performance storage is a critical component in the infrastructure. The storage systems need to feed the compute infrastructure as quickly as possible. With object storage improving its performance and adding flash to…
Tagged with: Caringo, Data Lake, Flash, HPC, IoT, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, performance
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The Great Debate – Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud Storage
A recent Storage Switzerland webinar sparked an online discussion on the idea of using cloud storage services coupled with a cloud caching appliance. As with all online discussions, there were some naysayers and some supporters. I enjoy debating anything –…
Webinar: Proving It! A step by step Demo: Containerizing Legacy Applications
Storage Switzerland and HyperGrid recently held a webinar entitled “How and Why to Containerize Your Legacy Applications”. It is one of our highest attended webinars this year. The number one request from that webinar? “I want to see this thing…
Tagged with: Application, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Hyperconverged, HyperGrid, SQL, VDI
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Google Storage vs. Amazon Storage
I recently learned just how different Google cloud storage is when compared to its main competitor, Amazon. People that found Amazon’s product and pricing choices bewildering might find this information very interesting. Like Amazon, Google has four different service levels:…
Is DRaaS a Panacea?
There are no panaceas, but DRaaS services are certainly starting to look very appealing if not close to being a panacea. They offer an ability to do disaster recovery in ways that simply weren’t possible for many companies. In our…
All-Flash, Go Fast or Go Deep?
All-flash arrays are known for IOPS and low latency. But there is another feature of flash that may end up being even more important than performance; density. All-flash array vendors are beginning to deliver PBs of capacity in a few…
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