The public cloud is often described as “just a business model” that provides organizations with the ability to pay for storage and compute resources as they need them. If that were true then the public cloud providers could be easily…
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What is a Cloud-Like Storage Experience for On-Premises Applications?
Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Key Security Features to Evaluate in Your Cloud Provider
Cloud storage services have evolved significantly in terms of their ability to provide data security, as well as their ability to comply with data privacy regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer…
Tagged with: Carbonite, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, dr, EFSS, Encryption, Endpoint, EU, GDPR, Hybrid, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, Replication, RPO, RTO
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The ROI of Extreme Performance
In our recent webinar, “Flash Storage – Deciding Between High Performance and EXTREME Performance”, Storage Switzerland and Violin Systems discussed the use cases that demand extreme performance over high performance. Extreme performance is for applications that can benefit from consistent…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, DAS, Flash, IOPS, Machine Learning, MS-SQL, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, SCSI, SSD, Violin Memory, Violin Systems
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Data Management vs Data Protection
Storing data comes with responsibilities, two of which are managing that data and protecting it. Many organizations however, focus most of their attention on protecting the data and almost no attention to managing it. However, focusing attention solely on data…
Does the Storage Media Matter Anymore?
It used to be that the storage media was the determining factor of an application’s performance. However, with non-volatile memory express (NVMe) solid-state drives (SSDs) now having reached price parity with Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) SSDs, the potential to achieve hundreds…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, DAS, Flash, IOPS, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, SCSI, SSD, Violin Memory, Violin Systems
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How to Overcome the NAS Silo Problem
Gone are the days of the single site enterprise that relied on files being manually emailed between employees for collaboration. We live today in the world of the multi-site, agile enterprise. Users across the globe must be able to simultaneously…
Tagged with: Disaster recovery, Hyperconverged, Metadata, Migration, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, VMware
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How are the Benefits and Challenges of the Cloud Evolving?
As the cloud continues to mature, organizations are also increasing their sophistication in terms of how they leverage the cloud. A survey by Osterman Research corroborates what Storage Switzerland is hearing from end users – where previously the cloud was…
Is Your Application Performance Too Slow? Consider Computational Storage
The modern workload set has fundamentally changed the nature of and also how we handle data sets. Previously, critical business applications were typically driven by the processing of large, monolithic databases that were comprised of large files. Today, more and…
Tagged with: AI, Big data, Computational Storage, DRAM, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, ML, NGD Systems, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PCIe, SSD
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How to Make One Thousand Snapshots Useful
Almost every modern storage system claims to support “thousands” of snapshots of production data without impacting performance. While some of the lack of performance impact claims have proven to be suspect, there is little doubt that today’s storage solutions support…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Backup, Big data, CCPA, Cloud, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Hybrid, NetApp, RPO, RTO, Service Level Agreements, SLA, Veeam
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Are Your Business Queries Taking Too Long? Data Qualification is Likely the Culprit
Today’s business environment is defined by agility. The company that can innovate faster, react more quickly to changing end-customer preferences, and identify and pursue new revenue opportunities ahead of its peers, has a distinct competitive advantage. In order to achieve…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, Metadata, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium
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