An all-flash array is supposed to be the pinnacle of storage performance but these systems have a secret; they are leaking performance. Proof of this is simple, take the raw IOPS of the drives inside the typical all-flash array and…
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Is Your All-Flash Array Leaking?
Tagged with: HDD, NVMe, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined, SSD, StorONE, Virtualization
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For SDS on NAS, Hardware Matters – iXsystems Briefing Note
A well established concept in the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market is Software Defined Storage (SDS). SDS is tailor-made for NAS, as a file system is, after all, a software construct and it should run on any hardware. While SDS…
Tagged with: Encryption, iXSystems, NAS, NVDIMM, NVMe, Object Storage, Ransomware, SAN, SDS, VM, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Webinar: Overcoming the Five Distributed Data Protection Challenges
One of the biggest challenges facing IT today is how to effectively protect data distributed between offices and across clouds. Companies with remote and branch locations, and newly merged organizations are all at risk of losing their critical data or…
Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, dr, DRaaS, Druva, eDiscovery, Migration, Virtualization, VM
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Posted in Webinar
How to Increase Backup and Recovery? – Rubrik Briefing Note
For most organizations, backup and recovery is their most fragile process. Any change in the environment can cause the entire data protection house of cards to come crashing down around the well-intentioned IT professionals that run it. The problem is…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Hybrid, Hypervisor, NoSQL, Recovery in Place, Rubrik
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Enterprises, You Want Object Storage But Not For Objects
The industry has been espousing the merits of object storage for years now and cloud providers have been quick to adopt the technology. The enterprise, on the other hand, is more cautious, partly because the object storage alternative, Network Attached…
Tagged with: Cloud, Erasure Coding, file sync and share, Flash, Hadoop, HDD, IoT, ISCSI, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SMB
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Webinar: Overcoming The 4 Data Protection Challenges of Hybrid IT
Organizations want to become data-driven. To achieve this goal they are leveraging modern applications and modern infrastructures. The combination creates a Hybrid IT environment where data and applications can be on-premises and in the cloud. While Hybrid IT does allow…
Making the Composable Data Center a Reality – Liqid Briefing Note
For the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) to deliver its full potential it is necessary to bring together resources like CPUs, GPUs, storage and network into a dynamic pool from which applications or services pull those resources as needed. Then…
Why Virtualization STILL Breaks Backup
With the broad adoption of server virtualization by data centers, it became apparent that protection of the new environment was very inadequate. Organizations faced in-guest protection or very fragile off-host architectures. As adoption continued, VMware and others made significant strides…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Containers, Hypervisor, Migration, Snapshots, Sprawl, Virtualization, VM
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SDS – The Next Generation
Software Defined Storage (SDS) was supposed to revolutionize storage, freeing IT from the chains of vendor lock-in, allowing them to build more cost effective scalable architectures. The first generation of SDS solutions, for the most part emulated the dedicated storage…
Tagged with: HDD, NVMe, SDS, Snapshots, Software Defined, SSD, StorONE, Virtualization
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Posted in White Paper
SlideShare: How Software-Defined Networking Can Simplify Scale-Out HCI
Hyperconverged Infrastructures (HCI) offer management simplicity and provisioning agility to data centers undergoing digital transformation. When applications need more compute or storage resources, IT can “simply add a node” to an existing HCI cluster. But as the HCI environment scales…
Tagged with: Big Switch, Cloud, Container, HCI, Hyperconvergence, Hyperscale, Scale, SDDC, VM, VMware
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