Everyone understands disk has become the primary target for backups in the last several years. It’s also safe to say that the main type of disk storage used as a target for backups would be a purpose-built backup appliance that…
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Open Software Defined Storage needs Data Reduction
Software defined storage (SDS) promises to abstract storage services from storage hardware, freeing organizations from the “lock” of having to use specific storage hardware. But the price for this “freedom” is imprisonment to a single storage software vendor. While certainly…
Tagged with: CEPH, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, Gluster, IoT, Permabit, Red Hat, SDS
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Designing Splunk Friendly Storage Architectures
Tegile Briefing Note Of all the “modern” data center applications, Splunk seems to be one of the more popular among more traditional data centers. This is due to Splunk’s specific use case: log data from machines. Almost every enterprise has…
Tagged with: Flash, IoT, Latency, Metadata, performance, Shared Storage, Splunk, Tegile
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The HPC Storage Challenge
High Performance Computing (HPC) creates interesting challenges for the storage infrastructure. First, storage systems supporting HPC have to meet increasingly higher performance demands. High performance HPC storage enables more simulations and deeper analytics across a wider set of data. Leveraging…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Caringo, Flash, HPC, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale-Out
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Storage Architectures for Cloud Hosted Applications
Many organizations are adopting a “cloud-first” methodology. This means the first destination an organization will consider when looking at a home for a new application is whether the cloud is a viable candidate to host that application. If the cloud…
Making Storage Consolidation a Reality
INFINIDAT Briefing Note The concept of a single storage system to serve the entire data center has been with us as long as the data center itself. But now we are seeing an explosion in the number and variety of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Compression, DRAM, Flash, Infinidat, Latency, NAS, SAN, Snapshot, Storage Sprawl
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Webinar: Modern Storage Infrastructures for Modernized Data Centers
Organizations are modernizing their data centers by implementing technologies like OpenStack, Docker, Splunk, Spark and Hadoop. The “default” storage infrastructures for these technologies were originally designed to use direct attached hard disk drives to make access local and reduce costs.…
What Exactly is Object Storage?
Object storage is a method to store data. Most IT professionals are familiar with the more traditional Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) file system approach. Both are a way of organizing and storing data on a storage system. POSIX mimics…
Tagged with: Dell, EMC, Metadata, Object Storage, POSIX, Redundancy, Tape, Unstructured data
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Webinar: Performance vs. Cost – Solving The HPC Storage Tug-of-War
When it comes to storage, High Performance Computing (HPC) environments are struggling with an interesting tug of war. On one side these environments need incredibly fast storage systems—the performance tier. Speed in HPC either allows for a greater number of…
Legacy Apps in a Containerized World
It is hard enough to convince organizations to virtualize their mission critical applications, now IT professionals are facing the challenge of convincing their organizations to containerize those mission critical applications. Virtualization frees mission critical applications of being bound to a…
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