Recently, reports started coming out of the IT press that a well-known cloud provider had announced it was closing its doors, giving customers 30 days to move their data. For most of their clients, this would be an inconvenience, for…
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Object Storage Can Reduce Hadoop Storage Costs
Hadoop is an open source software framework licensed by the Apache Software Foundation that uses a distributed compute infrastructure to handle large, batch analytics jobs on very large data sets. It does this by breaking these projects down into a…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, Apache Software Foundation, Cleversafe, Extract transform load, Hadoop, HDFS, Hortonworks, MapReduce, NameNode, Object Storage
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Cloud File Convenience with Local File Security
The benefits of universal access to needed documents and the ability to share these files is very appealing. People want the option to do work wherever they are, with whomever they want to, on whatever device is at hand. It’s…
Atlantis Raises the Software-defined Storage Bar
As Storage Switzerland covered in a recent briefing note “Solving the VDI Storage Contradiction“ Atlantis ILIO is a software solution that addresses the often conflicting requirements facing many companies with their VDI deployments: providing adequate performance for virtual desktops and…
Tagged with: Atlantis, Desktop virtualization, Hardware, SDS, Software Defined Storage, VMware, Xen
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Is Real-time Tiering the Next Big Thing in Storage?
Dot Hill is a storage array manufacturer that’s built a name for itself primarily in the OEM world. They’ve been manufacturing mid-range storage arrays for over 25 years, currently supporting HP, Lenovo, Stratus, Quantum and a number of other vendors,…
Fusion-io adds VDI Software and Hybrid Storage Solution
Companies are putting flash into application servers to accelerate performance hungry use cases like web scale and big social media environments. Now, users in the more traditional enterprise space are looking to server-side flash as well, to address their performance…
Tagged with: Flash memory, Fusion-io, Hybrid array, ioControl, NexGen, PCI Express, Storage, VirtualBox
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Can Object Storage Solve the RAID TCO Challenge?
The cost of storage is important in all data-dependent companies, but in hyper-scale environments like web-based enterprises, it can literally consume the business. With the simultaneous requirements of scalable capacity, reliability and availability, these organizations face serious challenges with storage…
Tagged with: Backup, Cleversafe, Data integrity, Disk storage, Erasure code, Object Storage, Object-based, RAID
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How to Make Flash Accessible on the Memory Bus
One of the more interesting technologies at the Flash Memory Summit this year was presented by SMART Storage and Diablo Technologies. They’ve taken server-side flash implementation to a new level with SMART Storage’s ULLtraDIMM, a flash storage device that puts…
Tagged with: Diablo Technologies, DIMM, Flash memory, PCI Express, Random-access memory, SMART Storage, Solid-state drive
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What’s The Best Flash Acceleration Strategy For SQL Server?
Simply adding flash to provide more storage IOPS doesn’t guarantee better application performance, steps must be taken to ensure that the right data is in flash when it’s needed. Accelerating applications like SQL Server that can have data sets TBs…
Tagged with: Cache, Database, Microsoft SQL Server, OCZ Technology, PCI Express, Random-access memory, SQL, SQL Server
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