Flash media is getting denser. There have been several announcements promising 50TB plus SSDs within the next six months. The distinct advantage for all-flash systems is they will be able to deliver Petabytes of capacity in just a few rack…
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SlideShare: Cloud Archiving – Amazon Glacier, Microsoft Azure or Something Else?
Amazon Glacier seems like the ultimate archive; capacity costs are impressively cheap, it never has to be upgraded or replaced and all the data is off-site. The problem is at some point the organization is going to need to recover…
Webinar: All-Flash For Databases: 5 Reasons Why Current Systems Are Off Target
Database applications like Oracle and MS-SQL make up most of the active data set. Making sure these applications respond almost instantly to user requests is a critical function for IT. The problem is meeting the instant response expectation is expensive,…
Storage for High-Performance Computing Gets Enterprise Ready – Panasas Briefing Note
High-Performance Computing (HPC) is the proving grounds to test a storage system’s ability to handle mixed workloads. While HPC is an important market it is relatively small, at least in comparison to the broader enterprise data center storage market. With…
How To Solve The Three Biggest Backup Problems; Part One Increasing Backup Frequency
“It’s all about recovery” is a favorite mantra of backup marketing material. The truth is that it is not all about recovery. In fact, it is easy to make a case that recovery is the easy part. The actual backup…
Cloud Backup? Yes, No or Sometimes
Cloud backup has several advantages over traditional on-site backup and one big negative; the data is no longer stored within the familiar confines of the data center. Even if the cloud backup solution provides robust encryption, many organizations have some…
Tagged with: Carbonite, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hybrid, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO, Virtualization, VMware, WAN
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ChalkTalk Video: How To Develop a Cloud Storage Strategy That Works
As IT professionals begin to implement a cloud storage strategy they immediately face two challenges; the first is the actual transition itself. How to learn the new architectures available to them and how to deal with application incompatibilities as they…
Tagged with: Amazon AWS re:Invent, Backup, Cloud, Google, Hybrid, NFS, Replication, SMB, SwiftStack, Sync
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ChalkTalk Video: What’s Wrong with Traditional Backup vs The Cloud?
Traditional backup consists of a backup server, which stores copies of production data in a tape library or a deduplicated disk storage appliance. Most of these legacy solutions try to extend themselves into the cloud. The problem is the backup…
Tagged with: Amazon AWS re:Invent, Archive, Backup, Cloud, Deduplication, dr, Druva, eDiscovery, Ransomware, Scale
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ChalkTalk Video: Why Organizations Are Struggling with Getting Applications to the Cloud
Every organization is trying to develop a cloud strategy, but as they try to move workloads to the cloud, they are running into the wall known as the CAP theorem. The CAP theorem says it is impossible for a distributed…
Tagged with: Amazon AWS re:Invent, Avere, Capacity, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Object Storage, performance, Scale, WAN
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ChalkTalk Video: High-Performance Storage for Machine Learning
Use cases like machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence all require massive amounts of performance. These systems use dedicated GPU accelerators for training machine learning algorithms and massive amounts of network bandwidth. These environments also push today’s all-flash systems…
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