In IT circles when the discussion of “the cloud” comes up, whether for cloud compute or cloud storage, the first thought is a public cloud like Amazon, Google or Azure. But the reality is the cloud is not a location,…
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Scaling, There’s More To it Than Just Adding Nodes
Driven by either the demand for more capacity, more performance or both, every storage system at some point has to scale. Broadly there are two types of scaling available: scale-up or scale-out. Scale-up systems scale by adding more capabilities to…
Can IT do Cloud Storage better than Cloud Providers?
Outsourcing some or all of your organization’s storage needs to a cloud provider sounds very appealing to overworked IT professionals. After all, who wouldn’t want to get rid of having to deal with storage management, data protection and upgrades? Cloud…
Tagged with: Capacity, ClearSky, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Encryption, Data Protection, Latency, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Getting Beyond Flash 101 – Flash 102 Selecting the Right Flash Array
IT professionals are convinced: Flash is the key to solving their storage performance challenges. The next step is selecting what flash makes the most sense for their organization’s specific needs. Do they need maxed-out flash performance for a highly transactional…
SlideShare: How To Use Software Defined Storage to Extend Your SAN, Not Replace it
Most vendors are positioning SDS and Hyperconvergence as THE replacement for legacy storage area network (SAN) investment. They want IT to shove the legacy SAN out the door, which most IT professionals are reluctant to do. The result is data…
What is Big Data?
IT Professionals hear a lot about big data, but what exactly is big data and what are some of the use cases for it? In this StorageShort Storage Switzerland’s George Crump and HDS’ Fred Oh explain big data and how…
Flash is not Wine
Flash is the go-to performance option when IT professionals face a storage performance challenge. The problem is that the price of flash is still at a premium versus what you can buy traditional hard disk technology for. And the reality…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Flash, Flash-as-a-Service, Hybrid, performance, SSD, Tegile
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Re-Thinking Scale-Out Storage
Tintri Briefing Note Most primary storage scale-out systems are tightly coupled clusters made up of identical servers acting as storage nodes. As the organization requires more storage performance or storage capacity it adds new nodes. In many cases these nodes…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, performance, Scale-Out, Tintri, VM
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The Rise of the Machines – The Challenge with High File Count Environments
It is a well known fact that unstructured data is growing. But there is an aspect of its growth that may take unsuspecting IT professionals off guard; the number of individual files storage systems need to store today and the…
Tagged with: Caringo, CIFS, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage, Scale-Out, SMB, Unstructured data
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Storage Management by Spreadsheet
It’s 2016 and still the number one storage management application is Microsoft Excel. Storage administrators continue to use Excel spreadsheets to track how much capacity each server is using and assign which LUN or volume goes to those servers. Of…
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