One of the advantages of the NVMe Flash standard is that it is networkable. NVMe over Fabrics (NVMf) brings direct attach storage like latency to shared storage systems. NVMf eliminates the need for modern applications like Hadoop and others to…
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Does NVMe Flash Have to Be End-to-End
Tagged with: Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HBA, NAS, NVMe, NVMe-oF, NVMf, Replication, SAN, Snapshots, Western Digital
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What’s Hot in Storage in 2019 – Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)
Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) leverages virtualization to converge three common data center tiers; computing, networking, and storage, into a single tier. It promises to simplify operation and ease expansion while also lowering material costs. A key component is the storage software…
Tagged with: HCI, Hot2019, Hyperconverged, NVMe, SDN, VDI, Virtual machine, Virtualization, VM
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What is HCI 2.0
On paper, hyper-converged infrastructures (HCI) look like the perfect solution to most organizations’ IT woes. While the first generation of HCI solved organization’s point problems like virtual desktops and Tier 2 virtual workloads, they lacked the power and efficiencies required…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Axellio, Big data, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, Hyperconverged, Hypervisor, IoT, Machine Learning, MS-SQL, Sprawl, Virtualization
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What’s Hot in 2019 – Object Storage
Object Storage is a storage technology that IT planners should include in their plans for 2019. The headline feature of object storage is incredibly low-cost storage that scales to meet almost any capacity demand. It’s true that object storage is…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Caringo, Cloudian, Disaster recovery, dr, EFSS, Hot2019, IoT, Migration, Object Storage, Replication, Scality
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What’s Hot in Storage for 2019? Trend #1: AI, but is it for Real?
Trend #1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) – AI is one of the most over-hyped terms in the industry. In 2019 that hype reaches new heights. Vendors will not only claim they have the perfect storage system for AI workloads but that…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, HCI, Hot2019, Hyperconverged, Machine Learning, MI, Storage Sprawl
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Potential NVMe Pitfalls and What to Look For in 2019
As 2019 approaches, the storage industry is buzzing about non-volatile memory express (NVMe). This new protocol and interface for flash storage stands to bring substantial value to a range of applications and workloads. NVMe is emerging as a key tool…
Tagged with: Big data, Consolidation, Data Protection, Flash, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, Western Digital
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Is Your All-Flash Storage Software Block Only?
Accelerating database performance remains a top use case for all-flash arrays, so it makes sense that most all-flash array systems only support block storage. However, only supporting block means that the customer assigns the “raw” volume to a server and…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash, All-Flash Array, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, HDD, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, SDS, Snapshot, SSD, StorONE
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How Holistic Can a Backup Solution Become?
In a recent webinar, “Holistic Disaster Recovery; from Data Center to Endpoint”, Storage Switzerland discussed the concept of end-to-end (or holistic) disaster recovery. One of the questions asked was “How holistic can a backup solution become?” Which, considering that most…
Tagged with: Cloud, Consolidation, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Encryption, Endpoint, Holistic, KeepItSafe, Migration, NoSQL, Ransomware, Replication, Veeam
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The US Version of GDPR Will Be a Nightmare
In a few years, U.S. based IT professionals may look back at the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and wish they had something as easy for their data governance regulation. California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is part of…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, CCPA, Cloud, Data Privacy, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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Understanding the Cost of Data Protection Infrastructure
Protecting primary storage is significantly more expensive than the actual cost of primary storage. While, in most cases, data protection storage doesn’t need to perform at the same level as primary storage, it does need to provide acceptable performance, and…
Tagged with: Big data, Cloud, Consumption, Container, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, HPE, Infrastructure, Replication, Veeam
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