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…
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Bringing Flash Performance to Mainstream IT Environments
Virident’s FlashMax II PCIe solution has some of the best performance available in the industry and the company is enjoying big wins in what’s often called the “hyper-scale” market. These are large service providers, social media and web-based giants that…
Tagged with: FlashMax, PCI Express, Scalability, Solid-state drive, SQL, Virident
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Object Storage Industry Veteran Cleversafe now Supports Hadoop
OBS has been a hot topic of late, and rightly so, it’s a technology whose time has come. The advantages it brings to companies facing extreme data growth, often referred to as ‘hyper-scale’ environments, are pretty remarkable. Basically, object storage…
Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, Hadoop, Hardware, MapReduce, Object Storage, Storage
Posted in Case Study
Posted in Case Study
How Does Shutterfly Keep 80PB of Pictures Safe and Available?
Shutterfly is the market leader in digital, personalized photo products, currently serving millions of customers who benefit from unlimited, secure (and free) storage, plus a 100 percent happiness guarantee. They help customers turn their pictures into lasting keepsakes, such as…
Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, Disk array, Hardware, Object Storage, RAID, Shutterfly, Storage
Posted in Case Study
Posted in Case Study
White Paper – Defining Enterprise Archive
Archiving is the process of moving inactive data from primary disk-based storage to an easy-to-access secondary storage tier. The objective of archiving is to gain cost and operational efficiencies while reliably protecting information for the long-term. An Enterprise Archive is…
The TCO of Meeting a Backup Window
Backup is a budget area that’s considered an expense, one for which investment is typically minimized. When money is spent it often goes to short-term fixes for the most essential parts of the process, like meeting the backup window. This…
Tagged with: Backup, Data deduplication, Hardware, Information technology, Sepaton
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Posted in Article
How to Make Reliable SSDs – Reliable NAND Flash
“Reliability” in a storage context means that the storage infrastructure can be counted on to keep data safe and to produce that data in a reasonable timeframe when called upon. While it’s true that storage systems have redundancies built in…
Tagged with: DRAM, ECC, Flash memory, Micron, Multi-level cell, RAID, Solid-state drive, SSD
Posted in Article
Posted in Article
How To Make Object Storage More Secure
Object storage is an enabling technology, one that improves scalability and performance at scale over traditional storage architectures which use RAID and replication to protect data. Using erasure coding and data dispersion within an object storage system can also greatly…
Tagged with: Cleversafe, Cloud computing, Data security, Encryption, Keys, Object Storage, RAID, Security
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Object Storage Supercharges DMF Tiered File Architecture
For 21 years SGI has been virtualizing primary disk with tape using DMF, their storage tier virtualization software. This solution creates a seamless fabric across multiple tiers of storage, ranging from high-speed flash-based storage on the front end down through…
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