High Performance Computing (HPC) environments have unique characteristics and some unique challenges that make them different from ‘traditional’ IT environments. HPC usually means big analytics projects that involve lots of data, high speed processing and frequently a compute infrastructure that’s…
– hint: your non-virtualized servers Watch Our Webinar on Demand “New Use Cases For Server Side Flash“ We all know about the challenges with server virtualization. The highly random workloads that hypervisors create can cause fits for the shared storage…
Watch the webinar On Demand “Three Keys To Choosing The Right Server Flash” and get an exclusive white paper. Flash Solid State Disks (SSD) installed inside a server have become the first stop for data center managers looking to solve…
– and why all organizations should want one Watch the Webinar on Demand: “Storage Requirements for the Next Generation Data Center” Cloud providers face some significant challenges, especially with storage. Many run very dense VM-to-host ratios that create highly random…
Everybody understood traditional file servers. They were the repositories for documents at work that facilitated sharing. Now, online file sharing (OFS) has become the new corporate file server that companies don’t control. IT has to get out in front of…
Watch our On Demand Webinar “Three Reasons why an SMB’s First Server should be more than a NAS” and get an exclusive white paper. The DS6100 is a compact file server system from Western Digital (WD), one of the two…
SNIA’s DSI Conference can help with all the hats you wear Things really changed after the financial downturn a few years ago. First, IT staffs got thinner at the height (depths) of the recession and people had to pick up…
From a storage perspective, VDI is tough duty. The Virtual Desktop Infrastructure sees I/O patterns that are highly random and highly concentrated, which can bring a storage system to its knees. But there’s a risk here too, that infrastructure must…
Flash has certainly become more affordable over the past several years and we continue to see more and more storage products introduced that include flash in one form or another. But most flash implementations are hybrid in nature, requiring that…
There is no shortage of stories in the IT press about the effects of disasters, like 9/11 or Hurricane Sandy, where buildings are destroyed, data centers flooded, etc. While these are sensational events, for sure, they’re not the types of…
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