Unstructured data is growing at alarming rates. The growth is the result of not only increased user activity but also by machines and IoT devices. Re-creation of this data isn’t possible. It is a point time capture of sensory data.…
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Simpler is Better – Solving Rack Scale Storage Problems – DriveScale Briefing Note
The storage infrastructure for multi-rack scale applications like Hadoop Spark, Cassandra, and CouchBase, are typically built using directly attached flash-based storage instead of a shared flash array. The motivation for using direct-attached storage (DAS) is simple. Media inside a server…
Tagged with: Compression, DAS, Deduplication, DriveScale, Flash, NVMe, NVMe-oF, RAID, SAS, Shared Storage, Snapshot
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
The Importance of Consolidation for Secure Storage
The Security Problems with Multi-Vendor Data Storage One of the most common data center trends is storage system sprawl. In today’s data center, every environment or workload has a unique storage architecture. While dispersed storage does allow IT to target…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, RackTop, Snapshots, Software Defined
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Posted in Blog
Dealing with the AI and Analytics Data Explosion – MapR Briefing Note
Accuracy and response time defines the success or failure of an AI or analytics project. The faster and more accurate the response the more trusted the system is. The more data provided to the project the more accurate it becomes.…
Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Encryption, Flash, MapR, NDFS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, S3
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Are You Ready for Ransomware’s Next Phase?
Ransomware has been a thorn in the side of IT professionals for over five years. What those professionals have seen so far though is just the tip of the iceberg. At the same time that IT is improving its response…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Encryption, Endpoint, Infrascale, Migration, Ransomware, Recovery
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Posted in Blog
The Commercial HPC Storage Checklist
High-Performance Computing (HPC) is no longer limited to the halls of academia and large government labs. Commercial HPC use cases are on the rise. Many organizations now have a large pool of unstructured data that requires analysis. The challenge for…
Making Multi-Cloud a Reality – SwiftStack Briefing Note
Once an organization migrates data to and reaps the benefits of using the cloud, they often want more. Multi-cloud is the number one request of organizations initiating or expanding their cloud presence. These organizations want to move applications between on-premises…
Tagged with: Archive, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Containers, Migration, SwiftStack
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Are Snapshots Enough to Protect Unstructured Data?
Unstructured data is hard to protect. It is growing at alarming rates. It is a crucial target of cyber-threats like ransomware. Even the makeup of the data is problematic. Unstructured data is often made up of millions, and in some…
ChalkTalk Video: How to Make DR Testing So Easy You’ll Actually Do It!
Testing the organization’s ability to recover from a disaster is almost as bad as having to go through an actual disaster. As a result, most organization’s don’t have disaster recovery testing as part of its standard workflow. The lack of…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Commvault, Deduplication, dr, Hybrid, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out
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Posted in Video
Webinar: Five Things to Look for in Your Next All-Flash Array
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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