Most All-Flash Arrays were bought in the last few years and have not come anywhere close to “end of life,” yet most vendors are now shipping NVMe All-Flash Arrays which offer better performance. As enticing as these new systems might…
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A No Compromise Approach to Software Defined Storage – DataCore Software Briefing Note
Software Defined Storage (SDS) was supposed to displace legacy hardware storage solutions that locked customers into a particular vendor. Years after its introduction SDS continues to struggle to gain critical mass within data centers. Today most data centers, especially at…
Tagged with: DataCore, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Migration, NVMe, SDS, Snapshot
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What is Automatically Archiving Primary Storage?
A recent Storage Switzerland Webinar “How to Design Self-Protecting Production Storage and Gain Backup Independence” introduced the concept of self-protecting primary storage but what about self-archiving primary storage? The value of self-protecting primary storage is that it improves the quality…
Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
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The Problems that Scale-Out Architectures Create
Data intensive workloads like Elastic, Hadoop, Kafka and TensorFlow, are unpredictable, making it very difficult to design flexible storage architectures to support them. In most cases, scale-out architectures utilize direct attached storage (DAS). While DAS delivers excellent performance to the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Cassandra, Cloud, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hadoop, Hyperscale, Kafka, Machine Learning, ML, Replication, Shared Storage
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New eBook: Do AI and High Velocity Analytics Require a New File System?
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,…
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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