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New eBook: Do AI and High Velocity Analytics Require a New File System?

Posted on May 9, 2019 by George Crump

Even though the workloads are only a few years old, the typical file system used in AI and High Velocity Analytics was created decades ago. These file systems, while parallel in nature, were optimized for large file, high bandwidth environments,…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Analytics, DL, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NMVe, NVMe, Scale-Out, SSD, WekaIO
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What is Extreme Performance?

Posted on May 8, 2019 by George Crump

The modern data center has to support many different types of workloads, each of which makes different demands on the storage architecture. Today, standard all-flash arrays (AFA) are the mainstream storage system for the data centers and conventional best practice…

Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, Replication, Violin Systems
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Hyperconverged 101 – The Importance of SDN in HCI

Posted on May 8, 2019 by George Crump

An often overlooked yet crucial component of an HCI environment is the network, especially as the environment scales. Each additional node consumes network ports and needs IT to logically connect it to the HCI cluster. In many HCI environments, the…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, SDN, SSD, VDI, Virtualization, VM
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The Requirements of a Modern Data Protection Architecture

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Previously, Storage Switzerland wrote about the challenges of trying to meet modern data protection requirements with legacy technologies, including the inability to scale-out and limited cloud integration. We also discussed the pros and cons of new backup appliances and converged…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, NFS, Replication, RTO, SaaS, Scale Up, Scale-Out, StorageCraft
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Alternatives to the Public Cloud

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As discussed in our previous blog, cloud computing is commonly heralded as the future, in large part due to the ability to procure and to pay for IT infrastructure resources on demand. The problem is that the cloud does not…

Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Understanding the Value of Cloud Based Services

Posted on May 7, 2019 by George Crump

File serving is evolving to file collaboration and the cloud is an ideal destination for this evolved use case. The file system, the software behind the file server, needs to change to keep up with this evolved use case. Simply…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, dr, Hybrid, IOPS, NAS, Nasuni, Replication, Unstructured data
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Why Current Data Protection Architectures Miss the Mark

Posted on May 6, 2019 by George Crump

In response to the increased need for rapid recovery, longer data retention and the desire to support the cloud for vaulting and disaster recovery, alternative solutions are appearing on the market to try and correct the shortcomings of legacy architectures.…

Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloud, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, dr, Replication, Scale Up, Scale-Out, StorageCraft
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The Business of Being an MSP

Posted on May 3, 2019 by George Crump

The business side of being a managed service provider is at least as important as the technology. MSPs need to be careful in who they do business with. They need to take a long term view of their relationships and…

Tagged with: Asigra, Cloud, Container, Disaster recovery, MSP, Ransomware, SaaS, Virtual machine
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How Splunk SmartStore Enables Scalable Business Intelligence

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Previously, Storage Switzerland wrote about the need to be able to scale compute and storage independently, when it comes to serving distributed Splunk data sets for business intelligence. In this blog, we investigate Splunk’s recently launched SmartStore capability, and how…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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Why Metadata Might be Impeding Your Flash Performance

Posted on May 1, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Metadata is an often overlooked but leading storage performance bottleneck. Metadata maps how files are stored on disks, and it summarizes characteristics of file attributes such as author and last date of access. As such, it is crucial to data…