Data Modernization is a lot like transitioning from being a child to being an adult. The in-between stage, known as the teenage years, can be a bit messy. Instead of going from young to old, data center modernization is transitioning…
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Consolidating Applications and Environments – Red Hat CEPH Storage 3 Briefing Note
Tagged with: Container, Data modernization, Hyperconverged, ISCSI, Metadata, Object Storage, Red Hat, ROI, Scale, SDS
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Dealing with the Polarization of Unstructured Data
Quantum Xcellis Scale-out NAS Briefing Note Unstructured data is polarizing. On one end, a large portion of unstructured data needs almost no performance, it just needs to be retained in case it is needed in the future. On the other…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Big data, Cloud, HPC, NAS, Object Storage, Quantum, Scale-Out, Sprawl, Unstructured data
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Why Do Primary Storage Providers Resist the Public Cloud?
Public cloud storage is highly scalable and very cost effective. It also happens to be located next to an almost infinite supply of compute. Why then do most primary storage vendors pretend the resource doesn’t exist? The answer is quite…
Predicting WAN Performance – Disaster Recovery’s Missing Link – Apposite Briefing Note
Most storage systems today have the ability to replicate data to another storage system at another site. If the storage system doesn’t have that capability, then there are plenty of third-party software solutions that perform the function. Even if the…
No Room in the Data Center – Secondary Storage Needs Cloud Integration – Cohesity Briefing Note
Most data growth in the enterprise is happening because of secondary storage use cases like backup, archive, and data re-use for test/dev or analytics (also known as copy data). In most cases, the capacity of secondary data is 10 to…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cohesity, Compression, Copy Data, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Replication
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What is Cloud Adjacent Storage? – INFINIDAT Briefing Note
Cloud adjacent storage is storage positioned within close proximity to a data center owned by a cloud provider. It enables compute the cloud provider hosts to have high performance, low latent access to data across traditional storage protocols. The challenge…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Cloud Adjacent, DRaaS, Flash, HDD, Infinidat, ISCSI, NFS, RAM, Replication, Software Defined
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Protecting MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop – Datos IO Briefing Note
Data center modernization usually includes the organization moving to modern cloud applications like MongoDB, Cassandra and Hadoop. Like most new initiatives a forgotten element is data protection. These environments are particularly challenging to protect because they are designed to run…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Big data, Cloud, Corruption, Datos IO, Deduplication, Encryption, Ransomware, Replication, RTO, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Using Software Composable Infrastructure for RackScale Application – DriveScale Briefing Note
Rackscale applications like Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra and others count on using commodity storage that is typically internally available to the node processing the data. The idea is to reduce storage costs and network complexity. The problem is these designs create…
What’s The Best Way To Rapidly Recover Data?
There are more methods to recover data than ever. It used to be that recovery meant loading a tape drive, scanning the whole tape to find the job that had the needed data, extracting that data from the job and…
StorageShort: Best Practices for 2018 – Eliminate Bad Practices
There are two storage habits that IT professionals should try to eliminate in 2018. The first is the practice of buying more primary storage when the current primary storage system reaches its capacity. The second is counting on the backup…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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