Hyperscale data centers have architectures that are designed to provide a single, massively scalable compute architecture. The architecture is typically made up of small, individual servers, called nodes, that provide compute, storage and networking. These nodes are then clustered together…
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What Is A Hyperscale Data Center?
Tagged with: Hardware, Hyperscale, PCI Express, SMART Storage, Solid-state drive, SSD, Storage
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The Unknown Risk of SSD Mapping Tables
Solid State Disks (SSD) and Flash Appliances use mapping tables to track where data is stored on the flash device. These tables play a similar role to iNode or File Allocation Tables (FAT) and if they get corrupted or lost,…
Tagged with: DRAM, Dynamic random-access memory, Flash, Flash memory, Hard disk drive, Non-volatile memory, Skyera, Solid-state drive
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What is the Fate of Object Storage?
Object storage and the systems that leverage its unique data storage approach have been the subject of much hype over the past few years. If you took past analyst predictions at face value, by now all unstructured data would be…
Tagged with: Active Archive, Active Archive Alliance, ISCSI, NAS, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, Unstructured data
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What Does It Mean When A Startup Changes CEOs?
In almost every instance the first CEO of a storage startup is the guy with the brilliant idea. When a start up changes CEOs it generally means one of two things; either the company is in trouble or things are…
Tagged with: Business, Cleversafe, Disk array, Network-attached storage, Object Storage
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Does ViPR Eliminate Vendor Lock In?
In a recent entry we covered a quick analysis of EMC’s first big announcement at EMC World 2013; ViPR. As we discussed this is EMC’s official entry into the software defined storage market. Potentially the biggest claim is EMC’s statement…
Tagged with: EMC, Software Defined Storage, Storage virtualization, Vendor lock-in, VMware
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Analyzing EMC’s Software Defined Storage
Yesterday at EMC World 2013 EMC announced ViPR, their software defined storage product which abstracts the storage controller and the data services from the physical storage. Unlike other software defined storage it does not totally replace the data services available…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, EMC, EMC Isilon, NetApp, Network File System, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage virtualization
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Server Side VMware Caching Gets Smarter
Increasing virtual machine (VM) density is critical for organizations looking to continue to reap the ROI benefits of virtualization; the more VMs per server the more cost effective the virtualization project becomes. There is one primary roadblock to increased VM…
Tagged with: Cache, OpenVMS, Proximal Data, Solid-state drive, Storage area network, Virtual machine, VMware, VMware ESX
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Seamless Hyper-V or VMware To Amazon EC2
The pay as you go compute capacity of Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) can be leveraged by organizations of all sizes to dynamically respond to spikes in business. An ideal use case is to move less compute demanding workloads to…
Tagged with: Amazon, Cloud computing, HotLink, Microsoft, Servers, Virtual machine, VMware
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Unstructured Data Storage For The Mid-Market
Unstructured data (data that’s outside of databases), is growing at an out-of-control pace in organizations of all sizes. Large cloud service providers and some larger enterprises have dealt with this challenge by embracing object storage. For smaller data centers and…
Tagged with: Data center, Exablox, Hardware, OneSystem, RAID, Storage, Unstructured data
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Tape is More Than The Backup of Last Resort
As we discussed in a recent webinar, “Why Tape is Making a Comeback“, data centers of all sizes are seeing the wisdom of renewing the role of tape and tape libraries in their backup and archiving environments. With the release…
