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Public Clouds Provide Storage Tiers – Why Doesn’t Storage Software Support it?
Public cloud providers all have at least three tiers of storage to offer their customers. They often offer a high-performance tier for cloud native applications, a tier designed for active but not as performance sensitive, unstructured data sets and a…
Bringing Tier 0 in From the Lunatic Fringe – Violin Systems Briefing Note
In most data centers, Tier 1 production storage has evolved from high-end hard disk-based systems to hybrid systems supported by flash to all-flash arrays. These Tier 1 systems are also typically well equipped with enterprise features like snapshots, replication and…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, NVMe, Replication, Snapshot, Violin Systems
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Understanding White Box Networking and Open Network Operating Systems
For decades, an organization bought its network switching products from a single vendor such as Cisco. In most cases, that organization’s data center became 100% dedicated to that networking vendor and it was almost impossible for another vendor to gain…
Tagged with: Analytics, ASIC, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, NOS, Open Network, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Software-defined networking, Virtualization
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Do You Need to Backup Cloud Native Applications?
A common question from organizations with cloud native applications is do they need to back those applications up? The cloud, after all provides plenty of redundancy and all major cloud providers have multiple data centers at their disposal. Most providers…
Tagged with: Baas, Cloud, CPU, Data corruption, HA, HYCU, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot, VM
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How to Avoid the All-Flash Capacity Glut
Next generation all-flash arrays (AFA) face a serious problem; they will provide more capacity than most data centers need. While too much capacity doesn’t sound like a problem it will be because organizations are still going to pay for it.…
Webinar: The Software Matters in Open Networking
Achieving the Benefits of Open Networking in the Data Center Open networking offers the ability to break free of vendor lock-in and achieve white box economics. SDN promises automation, reduced OpEx and increased agility. However, the open networking and SDN landscape can…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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Webinar: Evolving Data Protection from Backup to Copy Data Management
Copy Data Management promises to not only improve the data protection process, it promises to provide value to the organization even without a looming disaster. It can reduce storage costs by presenting virtual copies of data to test/dev, analytics and…
Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Protection, Hitachi, Hitachi Vantara, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Office 365 Backup Without Lock-in – BackupAssist 365 Briefing Note
The popularity of Office 365 continues to increase. Organizations large and small are adopting the service for office productivity and communications. Office 365 provides excellent service availability. If a server or storage system within the service fails within the service,…
Tagged with: BackupAssist, Cloud, Corruption, Cyber Attack, Encryption, Hyper-V, Office 365, Point-in-Time, Ransomware, SMB
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Achieving Cloud Efficiency Without Cloud Scale
Our last blog, “Are Cloud Providers Really Efficient“, discussed how cloud providers, from a resources perspective, aren’t really any more efficient than the typical data center. The provider’s use of automation and their scale is what separates them from the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Storage Capacity, Storage Consolidation, Storage Performance, StorONE
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