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Object Storage Can Reduce Hadoop Storage Costs

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Eric Slack

Hadoop is an open source software framework licensed by the Apache Software Foundation that uses a distributed compute infrastructure to handle large, batch analytics jobs on very large data sets. It does this by breaking these projects down into a…

Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, Apache Software Foundation, Cleversafe, Extract transform load, Hadoop, HDFS, Hortonworks, MapReduce, NameNode, Object Storage
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Using All-Flash Arrays To Solve Tier-1 Database Problems

Posted on October 2, 2013 by George Crump

To solve tier-1 database performance problems, it is important to understand the nature of tier-1 applications. Standard definitions of tier-1 include: (i) extremely high cost, extremely high performance applications – sometimes referred to as “tier-0” (e.g., Wall Street trading platforms)…

Tagged with: All-Flash Array, Cache (computing), Hard disk drive, High Availability, RAID
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What Are Integrated Backup Appliances?

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Colm Keegan

A lot has been written about the size and scope of the purpose built backup appliance (PBBA) market. When backup appliances first came to market over a decade ago, they were designed primarily as large disk repositories, some of which…

Tagged with: Backup, DataDomain, EMC, NetBackup, RMAN, VMware
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The ROI of Server-Side Caching

Posted on September 18, 2013 by George Crump

Implementing server-side caching with the right solid state disk (SSD) can be like conducting a ‘surgical strike’ on storage performance problems. Installing this combination of hardware and software can eliminate the storage roadblock to increased transactions per second, while not…

Tagged with: Cache, Hard disk drive, PCI, RAID, SanDisk, Servers, Solid-state drive, SSD, VMware
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Mixed All-Flash Array Delivers Safer High Performance

Posted on September 11, 2013 by George Crump

Almost two years ago, Storage Switzerland predicted that automated tiering technologies would be able to do more than just move data between hard disk and flash. It would begin to move data between different types of flash based storage as…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Dell, Dell Compellent, Flash, IOPS, Multi-level cell, SLC, Solid-state drive
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Is it Time to Upgrade Your Storage Evaluation Process?

Posted on August 22, 2013 by George Crump

In the modern data center, storage system upgrades are rarely caused by a storage system running out of capacity; rather, it more often occurs due to an unanticipated lack of performance or exorbitant maintenance prices. In fact, performance related upgrades…

Tagged with: Hardware, Infrastructure, Storage, SwiftTest
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Can Object Storage Solve the RAID TCO Challenge?

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Eric Slack

The cost of storage is important in all data-dependent companies, but in hyper-scale environments like web-based enterprises, it can literally consume the business. With the simultaneous requirements of scalable capacity, reliability and availability, these organizations face serious challenges with storage…

Tagged with: Backup, Cleversafe, Data integrity, Disk storage, Erasure code, Object Storage, Object-based, RAID
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Scale Data Protection With Your Virtual Environment

Posted on August 14, 2013 by George Crump

Thanks to an easy-to-measure return on investment (ROI) most data centers’ virtual server environments are growing rapidly. Many organizations have implemented a “virtualize first” policy, where all new servers are virtualized. In addition, legacy servers are being migrated to virtual…

Tagged with: Backup, Business, HP, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VMware, VMware ESX
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Hybrid Storage Needs SSD Cache Flexibility

Posted on August 6, 2013 by George Crump

While specialized all-flash storage systems grab the headlines, hybrid storage systems are increasingly becoming the workhorses of the data center, hosting the majority of applications, virtual machines and file shares. To expand the number of workloads that they can support…