Even though the workloads are only a few years old, the typical file system used in AI and High Velocity Analytics was created decades ago. These file systems, while parallel in nature, were optimized for large file, high bandwidth environments,…
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Moving on From Mozy Endpoint
Protecting laptops, tablets, and smartphones (endpoints) are more critical than ever. Users use endpoints of all types to create data essential to the organization, but the user may never store that data on a corporate (and protected) fileserver. One of…
Tagged with: Backup, Carbonite, Data Encryption, Data Protection, dr, Encryption, Endpoing, Endpoint, File Sync, file sync and share, FS&S, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Mozy
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What is Extreme Performance?
The modern data center has to support many different types of workloads, each of which makes different demands on the storage architecture. Today, standard all-flash arrays (AFA) are the mainstream storage system for the data centers and conventional best practice…
Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, Replication, Violin Systems
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Hyperconverged 101 – The Importance of SDN in HCI
An often overlooked yet crucial component of an HCI environment is the network, especially as the environment scales. Each additional node consumes network ports and needs IT to logically connect it to the HCI cluster. In many HCI environments, the…
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SDN, SSD, VDI, Virtualization, VM
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15 Minute Webinar: Composing Infrastructure for Elastic, Hadoop, Kafka and Cassandra to Drive Down Cloud Data Center Costs
Hyperscale applications like Elastic, Hadoop, Kafka and Cassandra typically use a shared nothing design where each node in the compute cluster operates on its data. Hyperscale architectures, to maximize storage IO performance, keep data local to the compute node processing…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Cassandra, Cloud, Composable Storage, DriveScale, Hadoop, Hyperscale, Kafka, Machine Learning, ML
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Understanding the Value of Cloud Based Services
File serving is evolving to file collaboration and the cloud is an ideal destination for this evolved use case. The file system, the software behind the file server, needs to change to keep up with this evolved use case. Simply…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, IOPS, NAS, Nasuni, Replication, Unstructured data
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Why Current Data Protection Architectures Miss the Mark
In response to the increased need for rapid recovery, longer data retention and the desire to support the cloud for vaulting and disaster recovery, alternative solutions are appearing on the market to try and correct the shortcomings of legacy architectures.…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, StorageCraft
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15 Minute Webinar: What Are Composable Infrastructures?
IT professionals are hearing a lot about composable infrastructures and many vendors are claiming to offer a solution, but only a few have truly composable solutions ready for deployment today. The goal of composability is to bring the cloud like…
Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-in, Scale-Out
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Are NVMe Flash Arrays Viable for Traditional Workloads?
NVMe Flash Arrays promise an unprecedented level of performance thanks to the higher command count, queue depth and PCIe connectivity. Most NVMe Arrays are boasting IOPS statistics of close to one million IOPS and latency in the low hundreds of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, ROI, SAS, Western Digital
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The Business of Being an MSP
The business side of being a managed service provider is at least as important as the technology. MSPs need to be careful in who they do business with. They need to take a long term view of their relationships and…
Tagged with: Asigra, Cloud, Container, Disaster recovery, MSP, Ransomware, SaaS, Virtual machine
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