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Taking The Load off of Networks with Computational Storage
It used to be that the storage media was the slowest component of the storage infrastructure. Now, thanks to flash, it is the fastest. Long before IO leaves the storage system and traverses the network, bottlenecks begin. In fact, the…
Tagged with: Big data, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, NGD Systems, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PCIe, SSD
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Why Legacy File Systems Can’t Keep up With AI and High-Velocity Analytics
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) workloads often start as skunk works projects within an organization. After the proof of concept and testing they move into production, which means storage performance and capacity demands for the…
Lightboard Video: Overcoming the Challenges of Deploying NVMe Flash at Scale
The main advantages of NVMe flash drives are the low latency and high performance per drive. Those advantages are also the biggest challenges: each drive can generate hundreds of thousands of IOPS but if those drives are installed in a…
Tagged with: Excelero, Flash, IOPS, Latency, NVMe, performance, Scale, Shared Storage
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SlideShare: All in the Cloud – Data Protection Up, Costs Down
Managing and protecting critical data across servers and applications in multiple locations around the globe is challenging. And the more decentralized and complex your infrastructure, the more difficult it is to manage your data. The potential bad news? Data loss,…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Druva, Recovery
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How to Create a Storage Consolidation Solution That Lasts
Consolidating storage into a single, or even a few storage systems is a big project. Once the project is complete, IT’s job is not over. The next job for IT is to make sure storage remains consolidated. Temptations to allow…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Deduplication, Flash, Hypervisor, NVMe, SAS, SDN, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, StorONE, Virtualization
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Fixing the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem with InfiniteIO
Fixing the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem requires an understanding of how organizations intend to use it. First, most organizations continue to use on-premises storage to support their applications and users. Second, these organization’s data centers have multiple storage systems in…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, infinite io, InfiniteIO, Latency, Metadata, NAS, Object Storage
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Webinar: Overcoming the Shortcomings of Legacy NAS with Microsoft Azure
Most organizations use Network Attached Storage (NAS) to store data, but the modern workforce and organization expect more capabilities than what the typical NAS can provide. Also, as organizations themselves become more distributed, the idea of a single centralized file…
Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Hybrid, NAS, Nasuni, Replication, RPO, RTO, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Myth Busting – The Four NVMe Myths
NVMe enables storage system vendors to once again raise expectations on the performance capabilities of all-flash arrays. NVMe provides a higher command count, greater queue depth and leverages the PCIe interface to deliver a significant increase in IOPS potential with…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, PCIe, SAS, Western Digital
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Posted in Slideshare
An Alternative to a Keep It All Data Management Strategy – Index Engines Briefing Note
As organizations come to grips with new regulations like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), their need to develop a more robust data management strategy is obvious. Organizations can no longer keep…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Backup, CCPA, Cyber Attack, GDPR, Index Engines, Machine Learning, Migrate, Ransomware, Tape
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