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…
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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…
What’s the Next Big Thing in Storage After Flash?
Flash storage is fundamentally changing the data center. It is allowing databases to meet the demands of users and virtual infrastructures to achieve new levels of virtual machine (VM) density. But what comes next after flash? Is it another advancement…
Tagged with: Data Mobility, DRAM, Flash, Fragmentation, Primary Data, Virtualization, VM
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The Road to Data Mobility – Consolidation, Storage Virtualization or Data Virtualization?
Storage consolidation is a lost cause. Why? The reason is that both the storage hardware and the use cases for that hardware are too different from each other. I outlined the problems in detail in my blog The Need for…
The Need for Storage Fragmentation
Here is the goal: Having a data center that consolidates all data onto a single storage system from one vendor. The hope is that by consolidating to a single system, the organization will reduce management headaches that IT administrators face…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Data Mobility, FC, Flash, Fragmentation, NAS, Object Storage, Primary Data, QOS, Virtualization
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SlideShare: VMware – Flash-as-a-Service – How to achieve Flash Performance with Cloud Economics
Organizations relying on VMware are ready to move beyond basic service consolidation. They want to establish a private cloud if they offer IT “as-a-service.” The challenge for data centers is how do they solve the problem of providing high performance…
Hyperconvergence and the Cloud – Getting There is half the battle
Sureline Systems’ Briefing Note Hyperconvergence and the cloud make similar claims to lure IT professionals to their products and services. Both solutions claim to simplify IT and eliminate the need for technology refreshes. For the most part these claims are…
SlideShare: Designing Storage and Apps to Enable Data Monetization
The old ways of managing unstructured data through file servers and network attached storage (NAS) systems were basically “store and forget” architectures. Today, unstructured data is more intertwined to the actual application. Unstructured data is often monetized, has financial value…
