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Taking The Load off of Networks with Computational Storage

Posted on March 7, 2019 by George Crump

It used to be that the storage media was the slowest component of the storage infrastructure. Now, thanks to flash, it is the fastest. Long before IO leaves the storage system and traverses the network, bottlenecks begin. In fact, the…

Tagged with: Big data, Encryption, Flash, Hyperscale, IoT, NGD Systems, NVMe, NVMe-oF, PCIe, SSD
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Why Legacy File Systems Can’t Keep up With AI and High-Velocity Analytics

Posted on March 6, 2019 by George Crump

Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) workloads often start as skunk works projects within an organization. After the proof of concept and testing they move into production, which means storage performance and capacity demands for the…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, DL, Hybrid, ML, NAS, NMVe, Scale-Out, WekaIO
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What to Look For in a Modern Global File Collaboration Solution

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Exponential growth of unstructured data and the advent of the distributed enterprise push the boundaries of traditional network attached storage (NAS) arrays. The need for more scalable and less expensive storage capacity that is centralized and globally accessible is driving…

Tagged with: Cloud, dr, Hybrid, NAS, Nasuni, NFS, Replication, RPO, RTO, SMB, Unstructured data
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Why Hyperconverged Infrastructure 2.0 for the Hybrid Cloud?

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Most enterprises have experienced early value and success with deploying hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) for virtualized workloads. In fact, it is the ability to streamline the path to the on-premises private cloud through abstracting the storage controller into the hypervisor and…

Tagged with: Axellio, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hybrid Cloud, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, NVMe, SDN, SSD, Virtualization
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Consolidation: The Key to Early NVMe Success

Posted on March 5, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As Storage Switzerland previously blogged, non-volatile memory express (NVMe) access protocols stand to add value to a host of applications, ranging from the performance-intensive newer workload set (e.g. artificial intelligence) to more traditional Tier 1 applications (e.g. Microsoft SQL Server).…

Tagged with: AI, Big data, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IOPS, IoT, ML, NVMe, ROI, SAS, SCSI, SQL, Western Digital
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Why SDN and Intent-based Networking for Edge Computing?

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Krista Macomber

For many enterprises, the traditional, centralized data center is steadily becoming a part of the past. Compute power and storage capacity are increasingly distributed to the network edge, to facilitate faster, more secure, and more cost-effective analysis of the growing…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, HCI, Hyper-converged, IoT, Optimization, Pluribus Networks, SDN, SDS, Software Defined, Software-defined networking
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Does Microsoft Office 365 Need to be Protected?

Posted on March 4, 2019 by Krista Macomber

It is increasingly common for enterprises to offload mission-critical applications such as Microsoft Exchange to cloud service providers; in fact, Microsoft’s software-as-a-service (SaaS)-delivered Office 365 revenue has surpassed its conventional Office revenue since the fourth quarter of 2017, pointing to…

Tagged with: Backup, Cloud, Data Protection, dr, DRaaS, Druva, Endpoint, Infrastructure, Migration, Ransomware, SaaS
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Adopting Value-Based Data Governance to Meet Modern Data Privacy Needs

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Data privacy is a universal concern for enterprises, and not only because of the rise of regulations such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). By and large, consumers have higher expectations in terms of how businesses are…

Tagged with: Analytics, Cloud, Data modernization, Data Privacy, Data Protection, Hitachi, IoT, Replication, Virtual Storage, Virtualization
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Why is Storage Monitoring Critical?

Posted on February 28, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The boom in data growth and usage makes maximizing the utilization of storage resources more important than ever before. The silos of storage infrastructure that have typically existed in enterprise data centers are becoming further fragmented, as storage managers deploy…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Flash, LUN, SDS, SolarWinds, SQL, Storage Consolidation, Storage Sprawl, Virtualization
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How to Create a Storage Consolidation Solution That Lasts

Posted on February 28, 2019 by George Crump

Consolidating storage into a single, or even a few storage systems is a big project. Once the project is complete, IT’s job is not over. The next job for IT is to make sure storage remains consolidated. Temptations to allow…