Experts claim that organizations want to “get out of the data center business” as one of the reasons that organizations want to move to the Cloud. While that justification does come up occasionally, in most cases top organizations are quite…
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The Value of Fine Tuned Flash Drives – Burlywood Briefing Note
What differentiates one flash drive from another? For the most part, the NAND is very similar. The key differentiator is the controller. The problem is each vendor does its unique optimizations and then releases the combined (controller and NAND) product.…
Why Aren’t You Tiering Backup Data to the Cloud?
Organizations tend to treat all backup data the same. Generally, IT stores backup data on a relatively low performing, high capacity disk backup system. The problem is that this type of device doesn’t fit the restore requests that most IT…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid Flash, Object Store, Veeam, Virtual machine
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Democratizing In-Memory Computing
The speed and low latency of dynamic access memory (DRAM) are why so many organizations are looking at developing new applications to take advantage of the in-memory computing concept. The problem is that rewriting and migrating to a new application…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Compression, Deduplication, DRAM, Flash, Formulus Black, Hypervisor, Migration, SSD, Virtual machine
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How Has Ransomware Changed Data Protection?
The ransomware threat can have a significant monetary impact on the business. Not only are enterprises forced to pay the ransom fee to recover their data, but under various government regulations they also may be charged additional fines per impacted…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Attack, dr, DRaaS, Migration, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, RPO, RTO, SLA, StorageCraft
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For All-Flash Performance, Hardware vs. Media
In recent years the industry has seen the evolution of flash media from Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) based interconnects to Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) based interconnects. And now, PCIe interconnect is standardized around…
Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, PCIe, Replication, ROI, SAS, Violin Systems
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Is Innovation in VMware Backup Dead?
The opening chapter of a white paper, “Cloud-native Data Protection for VMware,” available from Druva is titled “The Current State of VMware Data Protection.” While IT has seen a lot of innovation over the past decade, it seems that the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Druva, RTO, Scale-Out, Virtual machine, VMware
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SlideShare: Is Computational Storage a Better Path to Extreme Performance?
Vendors are re-writing software and adding custom hardware in an attempt to not bottleneck extremely low latency NVMe Flash and Storage Class Memory technologies. Eventually, they all are at the mercy of physics. Data has to traverse an internal and…
Tagged with: Computational Storage, Flash, flash memory summit, NGD Systems, NVMe, Samsung, ScaleFlux
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You Need a Multi-Flash Storage Strategy
The two big trends in flash technology are Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) flash and QLC (quad-level cell) but they are at opposite ends of the spectrum from a use case perspective. NVMe flash is designed for extremely high performance and…
Overcoming the Data Problem with Multi-Cloud
Multi-Cloud is a hot topic right now in IT circles. Instead of being locked into a single cloud, organizations can shift workloads between clouds as needed. Multi-cloud enables them to receive the best pricing possible on cloud services and resources.…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
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