Data Dynamics Briefing Note At some point in a storage administrators tenure, they will have to navigate the organization through a storage refresh. Actually they may have to guide the organization through several of these refreshes. It is a huge…
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Migration – The Storage Refresh Killer
Tagged with: Bandwidth, Cloud, Data Dynamics, Migration, NFS, Replication, SMB, Storage Refresh, Unstructured data
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Software Defined Hyperconvergence
Stratoscale Briefing Note Hyperconverged solutions allow organizations to leverage storage and compute in their data centers shrinking the data center footprint and reducing cost of hardware while optimizing software. Most of these solutions provide some of the elements needed to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined, Stratoscale, VMware
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Are You Asking Too Much of Your NetApp Filer?
Organizations are asking the present day NetApp Filer to do many things: host home directories, store machine generated data, host virtual machine images and even databases. What was once a single purpose appliance focused on file server replacement is now…
Tagged with: Caringo, Data Protection, FAS, ISCSI, NetApp, Object Storage, Replication, Snaphots, Unstructured data, VM
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Disaggregated Hadoop Clusters – DriveScale Briefing Note
Web-scale applications are designed to run on dozens, if not thousands, of small commodity servers, which expect direct-attached storage. As a result storage performance and capacity is directly tied to the purchase of more compute (servers). Over time almost every…
Tagged with: Capacity, DriveScale, JBODS, performance, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Data Centers need Open Cloud Integration
Organizations establishing a cloud first strategy are looking for ways to integrate both legacy and modern applications. They are also looking for ways to automate and orchestrate redundant tasks. The goal is self-service IT, where users order the capabilities they…
Webinar: What Does Your Next NetApp Refresh Look Like?
Most organizations making an investment in NetApp Filers count on the system to store user data and host virtual machine datastores from an environment like VMware. In addition these organizations want their NetApp systems to do more and be the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Caringo, NetApp, Object Storage, Unstructured data, VMware
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Flash vs. The Cloud
The cloud, both compute and storage, is appealing to IT administrators because they buy the cloud “as a service.” That means an organization can gain access to compute and storage resources as they need them and only when they need…
Briefing Note – SUSE Enterprise SDS Version 3
This past January, Storage Switzerland provided its analysis of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2, a hardened version of Ceph designed to address enterprise concerns over the open software defined storage solution. That release saw SUSE add capabilities like heterogeneous OS access…
Tagged with: Capacity, CEPH, CIFS, NFS, Replication, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, SUSE
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Sometimes Cloud Bursting is Bad – Permabit Briefing Note
IT professionals use the phrase “cloud bursting” to describe a process where they move compute and storage to the cloud when the local data center runs out of those resources. But there is another type of bursting that happens to…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cloud Bursting, CSP, Deduplication, Hybrid, Open Source, Permabit, Virtualization
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NoSQL is Breaking Storage
NoSQL databases like Cassandra and Couchbase are quickly becoming key components of the modern IT infrastructure. However this modernization creates new challenges – especially for storage. These modern applications all count on DRAM memory to deliver rapid results to user…
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