Next generation all-flash arrays (AFA) face a serious problem; they will provide more capacity than most data centers need. While too much capacity doesn’t sound like a problem it will be because organizations are still going to pay for it.…
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Achieving Cloud Efficiency Without Cloud Scale
Our last blog, “Are Cloud Providers Really Efficient“, discussed how cloud providers, from a resources perspective, aren’t really any more efficient than the typical data center. The provider’s use of automation and their scale is what separates them from the…
Tagged with: Cloud, Flash, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined Storage, SSD, Storage Capacity, Storage Consolidation, Storage Performance, StorONE
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Designing Storage for the Software Defined Data Center
The goal of a Software Defined Data Center initiative is to enable the organization to increase an organization’s flexibility by programmatically configuring and reconfiguring their environment with a series of software commands instead of interacting with hardware. The SDDC leverages…
Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Scale-Out, SDDC, SDS
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Solving the Right to Be Forgotten Problem
An aspect of the European Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and similar regulations like California’s Consumer Privacy Act, is the “right to be forgotten.” Simply stated this means that a user or customer of an organization’s resources has…
Tagged with: Aparavi, Archive, Cloud, Data Privacy, GDPR, Retention, Unstructured data
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Virtualizing Mission Critical Applications Exposes New Storage Bottlenecks
IT administrators have reached a level of confidence with VMware and other hypervisors that make them more comfortable with virtualizing mission-critical workloads, like Oracle, SAS, and SAP. The goal is to gain the flexibility of a virtual compute infrastructure to…
Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, DAS, Flash, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe Flash, NVMe-oF, SAN, Vexata, Virtualization
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Understanding the ROI of Cloud as Primary Storage
As we discussed in our recent webinar, “Eliminate Backups and Simplify DR with Hybrid Cloud Storage,” IT planners can start small, sending backups to the “Cloud as Primary Storage” solution but where the ROI gets powerful is when the organization…
The Problem with Software Defining Consolidation
One of the challenges with storage sprawl is managing all the different islands of storage. Physically separate storage systems can be more difficult to manage. This is especially the case if they’re from different vendors, since each system has a…
Tagged with: Consolidation, DRAM, Flash, Migration, QOS, ROI, SDDC, SDS, Software Defined, SolarWinds, Storage Sprawl
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Don’t Forget Data Protection When Selecting Cloud Providers
The cloud is good at availability and data durability. If there is an outage cloud providers have an excellent track record of getting their services back online quickly and providing access to the latest copy of data. What if though,…
Storage vs. The Software Defined Data Center
The goal of a software defined data center (SDDC) is to enable an organization to leverage standard hardware to reduce costs and leverage intelligent software to increase flexibility by dynamically defining the data center as the needs of the application…
Tagged with: Archive, Consolidation, Datera, Flash, HDD, Hyperconverged, Scale-Out, SDDC, SDS
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Storage Consolidation Requires Cloud Archive
Managing one of something is usually easier than managing five of something. Indeed, when it comes to storage systems, it is easy to manage one vast storage array than it is five to ten individual ones. Consolidated systems focus much…
Tagged with: Cloud, Cyber Security, Encryption, Flash, Hybrid, Object Storage, RackTop, Software Defined
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