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Top Four Data Analytics Challenges – Challenge 2: Technical Expertise

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The new era of data analytics has opened up a new opportunity for storage professionals to become strategic partners and advisers to line of business stakeholders. The problem is that completing analytics queries is taking far too long – frequently…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Cloud, Data Lake, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, MeetTheCEO, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium, TCO
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Is Best of Breed the Next Generation of Cloud?

Posted on July 29, 2019 by George Crump

The cloud provider landscape is dominated by a few large mega-cloud providers that attempt to provide a wide range of applications, services, compute, and storage to their customers. However, a new wave of cloud providers is emerging that focus on…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Egress Fees, IoT, MeetTheCEO, Migration, performance, SaaS, Wasabi
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How to Get Your Application Ready for Computational Storage Architecture

Posted on July 25, 2019 by George Crump

At its most basic, computational storage involves putting processing power where the data resides. In the case of flash storage, a computational storage vendor installs processing power on the flash drive. Imagine an array full of 100 flash drives; now…

Tagged with: Analytics, Computational Storage, Flash, flash memory summit, NGD Systems, NVMe, Samsung, Scale, ScaleFlux
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How to Modernize Data Protection and Live to Tell About it

Posted on July 24, 2019 by George Crump

There are several vendors on the market today that want customers to modernize their current data protection strategy by selecting their solution. The problem with most of the modern data protection solutions is they don’t support the current solution in…

Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, DRaaS, Hyper-V, NFS, Object Storage, Ransomware, Replication, Scale-Out, SMB, StorageCraft
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Windows File Services – All Good Things Must Come to an End!

Posted on July 18, 2019 by George Crump

Windows File Servers are popular for a number of reasons. First, they are easy to setup, any Administrator that has stood up a Windows Server can create a Windows File Server. Second, the software is essentially free with most licensing…

Tagged with: Disaster recovery, Hyperconverged, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, VMware
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Why Self-Protecting Production Storage at the Edge?

Posted on July 16, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Enterprises are relying more and more on edge data centers to collect and process critical data in real time. Increasingly, edge data centers require bare metal-levels of performance – but at the same time, these important data streams must be…

Tagged with: Backups, ClearSky, Cloud, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, dr, Hybrid Cloud
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eBook: Doing More with Splunk Data…For Less

Posted on July 15, 2019 by George Crump

Enterprises use Splunk because it derives insights from information that organizations already have. It is clear that the more information that is available to the environments the more valuable the applications are. Ideally, organizations want to store all data relevant…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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Struggling with Data Privacy? Consider Intelligent Data Management

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Regulations have proliferated beyond a concentration in a single industry (such as the financial community) or geographical region (such as Europe). Companies do business globally, and the importance of data is causing new regulations like the California Consumer Privacy Act…

Tagged with: Analytics, CCPA, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Privacy, Data Protection, GDPR, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Axellio’s FabricXpress All-NVMe Server for Microsoft Azure Stack HCI

Posted on July 9, 2019 by Krista Macomber

A Validated Hybrid Strategy for the Most Demanding Environments The hybrid cloud is the nirvana that most enterprises are chasing. The problem is that most enterprises have not been able to standardize their infrastructure for centralized management. In a previous…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, Consolidation, HCI, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Migration, NVMe, PCIe, QOS, Scale-Out, SSD, Virtual machine, Virtualization
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Is it Time for All-Flash Backups?

Posted on July 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Businesses today are all about “agile.” For storage professionals, this means delivering ultra-low latency alongside high throughput and high input/output (I/O) operations per second (IOPS) to accelerate mission-critical application performance as much as possible. All-flash storage arrays have solidified their…