When designing a storage infrastructure for an artificial intelligence (AI) or deep learning (DL) workload, the default assumption is that an all-flash array (AFA) or something even faster must be at the heart of the design. The problem is as…
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Are All-Flash Arrays All Wrong for AI and DL Workloads?
Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, DL, Flash, Metadata, Object Storage, SwiftStack
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Advancing the State of Cloud Data Protection – Actifio 10c
Most data protection solutions use the public cloud as a digital dumping ground to lower the cost of on-premises data protection infrastructure. To save costs, vendors often store the backup data set in a low-cost object store like Amazon’s Simple…
Tagged with: Change Block Tracking, Cloud, Data Protection, DRaaS, Egress Fees, Migration, Object Storage, RTO, Snapshots, VM
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Does All-Flash Kill Data Management?
Most of today’s modern storage systems have a scale-out design, meaning they can expand to meet almost all of the data center’s capacity requirements. Also, since an increasing number of these systems are all-flash, they can meet most data center’s…
Amazon EC2 Workloads Need Availability and Backup
There is a difference between availability and backup. Providing a workload with high availability means that if a component of the infrastructure fails, adequate measures are in place to ensure that the use of the workload continues with little or…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, Disaster recovery, dr, DR Orchestration, Replication, Retention, Snaphots, Veeam
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Can The Storage Infrastructure Keep Pace with Data Center Modernization?
The modern data center is increasingly microservice or container-based. These workloads are dynamic and unpredictable. The datasets within these workloads range from thousands of large files to billions of small files. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are being…
Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, EXTEN, Flash, IOPS, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SCSI, SSD
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2020 Will Be THE Year for NVMe-oF
Technology rarely has “a year.” In most cases, what is that technology’s year is the accumulation of previous years’ worth of work until one year pushes the technology over the top in terms of adoption. With that admission, 2020 will…
The Time is Now for File Virtualization
One part of File Virtualization is a global file system that abstracts the physical location of data from the logical directory structure. Even though data may move between physical file servers or network-attached storage (NAS) systems, users continue to access…
Tagged with: Archive, DataCore, IoT, Migration, NFS, Object Storage, pNFS, ROI, SMB, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Meeting the Storage Challenges of Azure Stack Edge Deployments
The public cloud is typically looked on as the great consolidator. Organizations, small and large, use the cloud as a hub for data storage and distribution. Recently, however, there has been a proliferation of edge use cases, and the major…
Tagged with: Cloud, Edge Computing, NFS, Object Storage, Replication, SaaS, Scale-Out, Scality, SMB, Software Defined
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Solving the Unstructured Data Protection Problem by Creating A Cloud Foundation
When organizations try to establish a cloud strategy, one of the challenges they face is where to begin. The problem is the cloud can do so much, like run applications, and provide advanced services and store data, to name just…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplicate, Encryption, Hammerspace, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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Can Current Storage Infrastructure Meet the AI at Scale Demand?
In our last blog we covered the challenges that AI at scale creates for storage infrastructures. To support the coming wave of AI applications, storage infrastructures need to deliver a tremendous amount of storage capacity with the ability to retain…
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