Where once the purview of research labs and high-transaction applications, high performance computing (HPC) is now making its way into mainstream IT. Enterprises are finding out the value of analytics for keeping abreast of their customers and ahead of the…
HDS Analyst Summit 2014 One of the topics at Hitachi Data Systems’ analyst summit in Colorado recently was the future of storage. The company was asked by several participants what their strategy was to deal with the ‘commoditization’ of storage…
For many small to medium sized businesses (SMBs), the cloud may be intimidating. It sounds appealing but they think it’s too expensive or too complex for their business. WD is trying to dispel those notions with a line of products…
We’re seeing an enormous growth in unstructured data, especially files that are seldom used but must still be saved. The question is where to put them. An object-based architecture is a widely talked about option, but the question then becomes…
At the Hitachi Data Systems analysts meeting in Colorado, the company discussed some important changes in the organization and an interesting initiative they’re calling “Social Innovation”. It’s a unique approach to what’s essentially a big data problem (and opportunity). This…
All-flash solutions are fast, but not all flash solutions will solve your performance problems. In the enterprise, in the public and private clouds, speed alone isn’t enough. All-flash arrays should also be able to guarantee predictable service levels for each…
Over-buying or over-spec’ing an SSD solution is all too common because managers often aren’t completely sure of the requirements for a particular application but can’t risk having their SSD fail or even underperform. The available options have been consumer-class drives…
Being a cloud provider is a challenging proposition. Like a utility, a cloud provider (public or private) has to support almost any level of user consumption and maintain that support as demand changes, with little or no advanced notice. These…
Primary storage is being overwhelmed by data growth, much of it unstructured digital content. These are large files that don’t change but must still remain online, often for extended periods of time. Tier-1 storage systems are too expensive, especially over…
The WD Sentinel DS5100/6100 is a compact file server system from disk drive manufacturer Western Digital (WD), designed for the Small- to Medium-sized Business (SMB). The DS5100/6100 comes with Windows Storage Server 2012 R2 Essentials and has the upgraded hardware…
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