At the top of most IT project whiteboards is “cloud”. Whether cloud compute or cloud storage, organizations are trying to figuring out how to move their applications or data to these no CapEx environments. One of the most popular is…
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Software Defined Deduplication is Critical to the Cloud
The goal of any cloud initiative is to create a cost-effective, flexible environment. The architectures will typically store large data sets for long periods of times, so one of the challenges to being cost-effective is the physical cost of storage.…
SlideShare: Overcoming the Storage Challenges Cassandra and Couchbase Create
NoSQL databases like Cassandra and Couchbase are quickly becoming key components of the modern IT infrastructure. But this modernization creates new challenges – especially for storage. Storage in the broad sense. In-memory databases perform well when there is enough memory…
SlideShare: Which Storage Architecture is Best for Splunk Analytics?
According to IDC, by 2020 40 percent of all data will be machine-generated. Much of this data is unstructured log data from web/app servers, mobile app/devices, and internet of things (IoT). Enterprises of all types and sizes are looking at…
Webinar: What Your Object Storage Vendor Isn’t Telling You About NFS Support
NFS has been the “go to” file system for large data stores but there is a new offering on the horizon…Object Storage. To help ease the transition, many Object Storage vendors have provided a gateway that allows their systems to…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Caringo, Cloud, NFS, Object Storage, Software Defined, Unstructured data
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NVMe over Fabrics Needs NVMe Storage Systems
E8 Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note When selecting a storage system users have to choose between reliability, performance and cost. Vendors try a variety of methods to deliver on all three. But as the old adage goes, you can only…
Tagged with: E8, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Hyperconverged, Latency, NVMe, SSD
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Flash Memory Summit Video – Using Software To Achieve Full Flash Potential
It is no longer “good enough” to have flash in the server. Where it is in the server is also of vital importance. Moving flash from the SAS interface to the PCI interface to the memory bus has significantly lowered…
Flash Memory Summit Video – Software Defined Storage and Flash
Software Defined Storage (SDS) is nothing new, vendors have been presenting it under different names for years. But SDS really had not taken off, it was hindered by a lack of CPU power and highly latent hard disk performance. The…
Hardware Matters More Than Ever
Violin Briefing Note The storage industry is going through growing pains. Especially over the last two and a half years as it tries to adapt to flash storage, cloud storage and software-defined storage. Pillars of the industry struggle to meet…
Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Latency, Memory, Replication, Snapshots, Software Defined, Violin Memory
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Flash As Memory Instead of Storage
Diablo Technologies Memory1 Briefing Note Flash is typically thought of as a fast alternative to storage, the ultimate hard drive upgrade. But it is memory, so there is no reason IT can’t use it as an alternative to DRAM. The…
