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Does NVMe Flash Have to Mean Featureless Flash?

Posted on January 10, 2019 by George Crump

The primary goal of the NVMe standard is to reduce latency. It accomplishes this by leveraging the PCIe interface and increasing both command counts and queue depth. NVMe Flash Systems however, are more than just the flash media. Vendors create…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, FC, Flash, ISCSI, NFS, NVMe, PCIe, Replication, SAS, Snapshot, Western Digital
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Enterprise HCI Requires Enterprise Data Protection – HYCU 3.5 Briefing Note

Posted on January 9, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) solutions like Nutanix are improving their ability to support enterprise applications like SAP-HANA. The broader the application and workload that an HCI solution can support, the better the return on investment and the more it lives up…

Tagged with: Archive, HCI, HYCU, Hyperconverged, MS-SQL, Nutanix, Replication, Snapshot
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The Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem

Posted on January 8, 2019 by George Crump

Public Cloud Storage solves many of the challenges facing IT planners as they try to address the rampant growth of data within their data centers. Storing this ever growing quantity of data is causing problems for both primary and secondary…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, infinite io, Latency, Metadata, Migration, Object Storage, Virtualization
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Does NVMe Flash Have to Be End-to-End

Posted on January 8, 2019 by George Crump

One of the advantages of the NVMe Flash standard is that it is networkable. NVMe over Fabrics (NVMf) brings direct attach storage like latency to shared storage systems. NVMf eliminates the need for modern applications like Hadoop and others to…

Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HBA, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, NVMf, Replication, SAN, Snapshots, Western Digital
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What’s Hot in Storage in 2019 – Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)

Posted on January 7, 2019 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) leverages virtualization to converge three common data center tiers; computing, networking, and storage, into a single tier. It promises to simplify operation and ease expansion while also lowering material costs. A key component is the storage software…

Tagged with: HCI, Hot2019, Hyperconverged, NVMe, SDN, VDI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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SlideShare: Consumption Based Data Management Providing Peace of Mind

Posted on January 4, 2019 by George Crump

Consumption based IT is a curated set of IT solutions that focus on business outcomes. As the name implies it is purchased on a pay-as-you-go model. The goal of consumption based IT is to simplify establishing IT infrastructure that incorporates…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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Webinar: Myth Busting – The Four NVMe Myths

Posted on January 3, 2019 by George Crump

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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What is HCI 2.0

Posted on January 3, 2019 by George Crump

On paper, hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI) look like the perfect solution to most organizations’ IT woes. While the first generation of HCI solved organization’s point problems like virtual desktops and Tier 2 virtual workloads, they lacked the power and efficiencies required…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Axellio, Big data, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, Machine Learning, MS-SQL, Sprawl, Virtualization
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What’s Hot in 2019 – Object Storage

Posted on January 3, 2019 by George Crump

Object Storage is a storage technology that IT planners should include in their plans for 2019. The headline feature of object storage is incredibly low-cost storage that scales to meet almost any capacity demand. It’s true that object storage is…