A couple of years ago Storage Switzerland wrote an article “Scale Out or Scale Up? – 6 Key Considerations for the Flash Array Buyer”. The points made in that article are still relevant, but vendors in both architecture camps have…
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Hadoop and OpenStack for Enterprise Big Data – Moving from Erector Set to Ready To Go
Big Data Analytics is more than just an interesting IT initiative, these infrastructures are starting to re-shape how businesses develop new products, respond to customer needs and achieve new levels of efficiency. The problem is that most Hadoop environments, the…
Tagged with: Big data, Capacity, Data Protection, Hadoop, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, OpenStack, Reliability, Scale-Out
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Briefing Note: StorReduce – Driving Down the cost of Cloud Storage
Because of the capacity requirements associated with it, the cloud storage use case is the most difficult to justify for enterprises. Paying for petabytes of capacity on a recurring basis can get very expensive, especially for backup and archive data…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Capacity, Clone, Cloud, Deduplication, Dev & Test, StorReduce, Virtual machine, VM
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The All-Flash Problem… Reality
The concept of an all-flash array once seemed impossibly expensive, but now almost a dozen companies ship a storage system that has no hard disk drives inside. The bigger question is if and when the entire data center can become…
Briefing Note: Hybrid Cloud NAS for the Mid-Market Data Center
Businesses of all sizes are experiencing rapid growth of their unstructured data, and more than just traditional user files created by office productivity applications. This growth includes backup data, sensor data and data from internet-connected devices like surveillance cameras. The…
ChalkTalk Video: Making Backup Storage Work Harder
We’ve kicked off the 2015 season of our data protection workshops. This year we are providing details on real-world designs that upgrade your backups. At the “Backup 2.0 Workshop” we will break the age-old rules of data protection to meet…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, performance, RPO, RTO, Storage Decisions, Storage Decisions 2015, TechTarget
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Webinar: Cleaning up the SDS Mess – Four Keys to Success
Is Software Defined Storage (SDS) getting hijacked? It seems every vendor, old and new, is claiming that their storage is “software defined”. In our on demand webinar listen as experts from Storage Switzerland and Nexenta provide guidance to sorting out…
Tagged with: Backup, Data Protection, Hyper-convergence, Nexenta, SDS, Software Defined Storage
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Briefing Note: Avere introduces new Use Cases for Google Cloud and Google Compute
Cloud storage is often thought of as a giant repository in the sky, where old backups and archives go, seldom to be seen again. But this may not always be the best cloud use case for data centers. Storing a…
The Problems with Server Side Flash for MS-SQL
When MS-SQL hits the performance wall, flash storage has become the “go to” problem solver. The high performance and low latency of the technology can eliminate many of the storage performance issues that a MS-SQL environment may face. But IT…
Briefing Note: Promise Technology Vsky – Helping Enterprises Evolve from Terabytes to Petabytes
Enterprises are entering a territory that was exclusively the domain of cloud providers. Thanks to initiatives like the Internet of Things and Big Data and the general explosive growth of unstructured data, organizations have to evolve from managing terabytes of…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, NAS, Object Storage, Promise Technology, RAID, SAN, Unstructured data
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