In a recent webinar “How to Create A Two-Tier Enterprise With All-Flash and Object Storage”, Storage Switzerland discussed the concept of a two-tier data center. The goal is to reduce the overall number of storage systems in the data center…
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All-Flash Should Internally Tier
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NVMe, Object Storage, Tegile, Virtualization
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End to End VM Management Driven By Storage – Tintri Briefing Note
Organizations are experiencing unprecedented growth in their virtual environments and as they grow, maintaining a consistent level of performance becomes a major problem. Most enterprises combat this challenge by over-provisioning resources; they buy too much compute and make massive investments…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Archive, Cloud, dr, Encryption, Hypervisor, Migration, QOS, Scale, Tintri, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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High-Performance Cloud Integrated Object Storage
Some storage architects have been looking at object storage as the unstructured data heir apparent to legacy network attached storage (NAS). Object storage is cost-effective, scales well and has rich capabilities for data retention and perseveration, but it is incompatible…
Tagged with: Amazon, Amazon re:Invent, Avere, Backup, Cloud, Flash, Hybrid, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, SwiftStack
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Can Data Diversity Be Solved By a Single Storage System? – Quobyte Briefing Note
The modern data center has to deal with different use cases ranging from applications running inside of virtual machines or containers to massive amounts of unstructured data created by both users and devices. This data diversity almost always forces the…
Tagged with: Container, Data Lake, dr, Erasure code, IoT, Metadata, NFS, Quobyte, Replication, SMB, VM
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The Value of High Focused Data Protection – HYCU Backup for Nutanix
Anytime an enterprise considers a new platform it has to address one particular requirement; how exactly IT will protect the new platform. If the platform promises enough value, IT may forgo that requirement and cobble together a “best efforts” data…
Tagged with: Cloud, Comtrade, Hyper-V, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, NAS, Object Storage, Replication, Scale, Software Defined, Virtualization, VM, VMware
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Five Backup Priorities for 2018
Study after study shows that business leaders are not confident in their ability to meet the organization’s recovery point and recovery time objectives (RPO/RTO). This lack of confidence leads IT professionals to open to embracing every new data protection solution…
Enterprises Need a Metadata First Strategy – Infinite io Briefing Note
Organizations looking to improve the storage performance of their data centers often turn to all-flash arrays. The problem is an all-flash array is hitting the performance problem with a sledgehammer when all that may be needed is a scalpel. The…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, infinite io, Metadata, Migrate, RAM, Virtualization
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Webinar: All-Flash in 2018 – What You Need to Know
The All-Flash era is well upon us, and most data centers consider an all-flash product storage tier both realistic and practical. But the flash industry continues to march on. New technologies like NVMe and ultra high-density flash modules promise to…
StorageShort: What are the Use Cases for Composable Storage?
A composable storage system can be virtually subdivided into independent arrays that provide more specific control over the allocation of performance and capacity. As opposed to quality of service (QoS), which tries to make sure certain applications get the performance…
How To Make Your Private Cloud Act Like a Private Cloud – Turbonomic Briefing Note
The ultimate goal of a private cloud is to create a pool of compute, memory, networking and storage resources that allocate automatically to applications on an as needed basis. The cloud should ideally be 100% self-service and require almost no…
Tagged with: Cloud, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hypervisor, Migration, Turbonomic, VDI, Virtualization, VM
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