The first generation of all-flash arrays has come and gone. For many organizations, the time is now to consider the “next” all-flash array. In our on demand webinar, Storage Switzerland and X-IO Storage discuss five things to look for in…
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SlideShare: Five Things to Look for in Your Next All-Flash Array
Tagged with: All-Flash, Array, Big data, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, IOPS, Scale, VDI, Virtualization, X-IO
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Virtualizing Mission Critical Applications Exposes New Storage Bottlenecks
IT administrators have reached a level of confidence with VMware and other hypervisors that make them more comfortable with virtualizing mission-critical workloads, like Oracle, SAS, and SAP. The goal is to gain the flexibility of a virtual compute infrastructure to…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, DAS, Flash, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe Flash, NVMe-oF, SAN, Vexata, Virtualization
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Understanding the ROI of Cloud as Primary Storage
As we discussed in our recent webinar, “Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage,” IT planners can start small, sending backups to the “Cloud as Primary Storage” solution but where the ROI gets powerful is when the organization…
The Problem with Software Defining Consolidation
One of the challenges with storage sprawl is managing all the different islands of storage. Physically separate storage systems can be more difficult to manage. This is especially the case if they’re from different vendors, since each system has a…
Tagged with: Consolidation, DRAM, Flash, Migration, QOS, ROI, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined, SolarWinds, Storage Sprawl
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Don’t Forget Data Protection When Selecting Cloud Providers
The cloud is good at availability and data durability. If there is an outage cloud providers have an excellent track record of getting their services back online quickly and providing access to the latest copy of data. What if though,…
Storage vs. The Software Defined Data Center
The goal of a software defined data center (SDDC) is to enable an organization to leverage standard hardware to reduce costs and leverage intelligent software to increase flexibility by dynamically defining the data center as the needs of the application…
Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Scale-Out, SDDC, SDS
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Storage Consolidation Requires Cloud Archive
Managing one of something is usually easier than managing five of something. Indeed, when it comes to storage systems, it is easy to manage one vast storage array than it is five to ten individual ones. Consolidated systems focus much…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, RackTop, Software Defined
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eBook: The Commercial HPC Storage Checklist
Businesses of all types are increasingly finding themselves in midst of a high performance computing (HPC) environment. This commercial HPC environment though is different from traditional HPC environments found in academia. The demand for business to manage their own HPC…
The Evolution of Ransomware – Is Backup Safe?
When ransomware first appeared in data centers, it had a simple attack pattern. Once it landed inside the data center, the malware tried to encrypt every file as fast as possible. If IT didn’t have good backups, the organization was…
Tagged with: Asigra, Backup, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Encryption, GDPR, Malware, Ransomware, Snapshots
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Solving the Software Defined Storage Bottleneck – Mellanox Briefing Note
Software Defined Storage (SDS) abstracts commodity storage hardware so that it can be used in a scale-out architecture, but this can create a bottleneck between the CPU and the storage media. In many cases, the latency of hard disk drives…
Tagged with: Cloud, CPU, Flash, Mellanox, NVMe, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, Virtualization
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