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Hyperconverged 101 – Understanding the Components of HCI – Part 1 Hypervisors

Posted on March 21, 2019 by George Crump

It is tempting for IT professionals to take a macro-view of hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) and let the vendor take care of all the details. The problem is the details matter, especially in HCI. The key HCI components for IT to…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, NVMe, SDN, SSD, Virtualization, VMware
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Rethinking the SAN for the NVMe Era

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash drives promise new levels of ultra-low latency and fast performance. The media is beginning to find its way into the enterprise storage environments, on the back of the need to serve the growing number of…

Tagged with: Excelero, Flash, IOPS, Latency, NVMe, NVMe-oF, performance, Scale, Shared Storage
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Veeam and HPE Consumption-Based Data Management

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Consumption-based IT enables the customer to obtain the pay-as-you-go cost effectiveness of cloud services while retaining an on-premises footprint. It also dramatically simplifies IT infrastructure management and planning. Data protection administrators in particular can benefit from this method of acquiring…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, SLA, Veeam
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Designing a File-System for AI and High-Velocity Analytics

Posted on March 20, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Our previous blog highlighted the challenges of supporting artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) workloads with legacy file systems. Control node bottlenecks, inferior (or lack of) non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drivers, and inefficient capacity utilization are…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Cloud, DL, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NMVe, Scale-Out, SSD, WekaIO
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Consumption-Based Data Protection Brings Predictability

Posted on March 19, 2019 by George Crump

Bringing predictability to the data protection process is not a lost cause. The problem is that IT lacks a purchasing model to make data protection predictable and a software/hardware stack that works well with that model. As discussed in the…

Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, DPaaS, DRaaS, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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Selecting the Right Service Delivery Model for MSP Services

Posted on March 19, 2019 by George Crump

IT Services Agent or Provider Managed Service Providers (MSP) often become MSPs by evolving from a traditional IT reseller to the more services oriented approach. Other organizations specifically choose to start as MSPs after watching the challenges that traditional IT…

Tagged with: Asigra, Cloud, Container, Disaster recovery, MSP, Ransomware, SaaS, Virtual machine
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Why Controllerless Software-defined Networking for the Distributed Cloud?

Posted on March 19, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Enterprises will continue to shift away from centralized data centers, in lieu of smaller edge locations that provide the latency, bandwidth, autonomy and privacy required by future forward workloads such as virtual reality (VR) and Internet of Things (IoT) driven…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Hyper-converged, IoT, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, SLA, Software Defined, Virtual reality
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What is Computational Storage?

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Modern workloads such as analytics of data generated at the edge require vast amounts of data to be processed in parallel. As discussed in our previous blog, the advent of solid-state drive (SSD) storage media has caused the interface between…

Tagged with: Big data, Computational Storage, DRAM, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, NGD Systems, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PCIe, SSD
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The Changing Role of Data Protection in the Modern Data Center

Posted on March 18, 2019 by George Crump

For decades, data centers have tried to use the data protection process to not only provide the organization with rapid recovery capabilities but also long-term data retention. Many organizations go so far as to use the backup process as an…

Tagged with: Archive, CCPA, Cloud, Cyber Attack, Data Privacy, GDPR, Migration, Ransomware, Unstructured data
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How to Use Copy Data Locally, Regionally and Globally

Posted on March 15, 2019 by George Crump

Copy Data is secondary copies of data that already exists on primary storage. These copies are used for recovery, reporting, analytics and testing. Most copy data management solutions are really just advanced snapshot management tools. They don’t provide a robust…