A common question from IT professionals is when is the right time to start purchasing NVMe Arrays over SAS-based All-Flash Arrays. The answer as always is, it depends, but as George Crump, Lead Analyst with Storage Switzerland discusses in this…
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Lightboard Video: Is Now the Time to Move to NVMe Flash?
Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, PCIe, SAS, Western Digital
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15 Minute Friday Webinar: Rethinking Storage Performance for Modern Applications
Modern applications process large segments of data, often in parallel. These applications need to match patterns across a multitude of object and vectors or regularly update multiple indices as they change over time. Storage IO and network latency quickly become…
Tagged with: Big data, Computational Storage, DRAM, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, NGD Systems, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PCIe, SSD
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Webinar: Is It Time to Upgrade Your Endpoint Data Strategy?
As organizations and their employees become more distributed, a case can be made that endpoints (laptops, tablets and smartphones) are some of the most critical pieces of technology in the organization. The problem is most organizations haven’t revisited their endpoint…
Lightboard Video: The Importance of Flash Architectures in Real-Time Workloads
Data centers are adjusting to the flash performance opportunity and are scaling their traditional environments much larger, pushing the storage systems’ architecture much harder than when all-flash arrays were first introduced. These organizations are also introducing real-time applications, like artificial…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IOPS, IoT, ROI, Western Digital
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15 Minute Webinar – Finding the Right File System for AI and ML Workloads
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and High Velocity Analytic workloads are going mainstream. Enterprises of all types and sizes want to seize the opportunity their data presents. As these workloads move from development to production, organizations face a significant challenge with…
Using Open Networking to Overcome Roadblocks to the Cloud – Cumulus Networks Briefing Note
Organizations are moving to private, hybrid and public cloud so they can create more flexible and more cost-efficient IT operations. The goal is to leverage software which interacts with quality, commodity hardware to create a programmable data center. Underpinning these…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Container, Cumulus Networks, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Metadata, NOS, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Webinar: How to Design Self-Protecting Production Storage and Gain Backup Independence
It is 2019, why are we still backing up production storage? The simple answer is that most production storage systems can provide some level of data protection but they can’t fully replace backup. It’s time to consider what backup independence means.…
Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
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Debunking AI and High Velocity Analytics Benchmark Results
Benchmarks are necessary when trying to understand the performance characteristics of a particular storage system in a particular environment. The problem is they are susceptible to manipulation by vendors to get the best marketing results. The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation…
Webinar: NAS vs Object – Can NAS Make a Comeback?
For over a decade Network Attached Storage (NAS) was the go to file storage device for organizations needing to store large amounts of unstructured data. But unstructured data is changing. While large file use cases are still prevalent, small file…
Tagged with: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big data, Cloud, Hybrid, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo
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Hyperconverged 101 – Understanding the Components of HCI – Part 1 Hypervisors
It is tempting for IT professionals to take a macro-view of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and let the vendor take care of all the details. The problem is the details matter, especially in HCI. The key HCI components for IT to…
Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, NVMe, SDN, SSD, Virtualization, VMware
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