Hyperconverged solutions come in two forms. The first is a hardware defined model where the hyperconverged software and server hardware are bundled together and sold as a turnkey system. The second is a software only system, where IT uses the…
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NVMe and NVMe Over Fabrics Critical To Next Generation Storage Architectures
The storage media used to be the slowest component within the storage architecture. Now, thanks to flash, it is the fastest. While the performance and low latency of flash allows data centers to make significant steps forward in application scale…
A Hybrid Cloud is not Two Clouds
VMware starts the organization on the journey to the software defined data center. With their workloads freed from the bounds of physical hardware they look for ways to take advantage of the newfound application mobility. Destinations under consideration include both…
Tagged with: ClearSky, Cloud, Cloud Bursting, Copy Data, DRaaS, Hybrid, Latency, Software Defined, VMware
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Is The Cloud Ready For Your Data?
The cloud is not ready for your data in the way you probably have come to expect from enterprise storage systems. But it is ready in other ways. The key to leveraging the cloud is to use it for what…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, NAS, NFS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Snapshot, Unstructured data
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What’s Next in Storage: Cloud to Cloud Data Movement
The writing’s on the wall. Eventually almost every organization will use cloud storage in one form or another. While the use cases may range from production applications to backup, the economics may be too appealing for an organization not to…
The Problems with Storage Performance Benchmarks
There are a number of storage performance benchmarks that provide a standardized way to compare storage systems from various vendors. The problem is there are few, if any, data centers that have a workload that is exactly like those benchmarks.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Desktop virtualization, Flash, Hybrid, Infrastructure, NAS, Object Storage, Virtual Instruments, Virtualization
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Finding Object Storage’s Missing Link
Object storage is an excellent secondary tier of storage. It can drive down the cost of storage, improve the quality of data retention and ensure that data is safe in the event of a disaster. Unlike other forms of storage,…
Tagged with: Archive, Backup, Cloudian, Copy Data, Data Protection, file sync and share, ISCSI, NFS, Object Storage, SMB
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Why is Unstructured Data So Important?
A lot of the advancements happening in storage seem to be for unstructured data. Why is that? Have all of the problems for databases been solved? It’s not like databases are no longer important. But what does seem to be…
Tagged with: Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, Encryption, Facial Recognition, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Panzura, SMB, Unstructured data
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Speed is Critical For Ransomware Recovery
Speed of recovery from any disaster is always important, but it is most critical in terms of recovering from a ransomware attack. Most ransomware fees are typically a few thousand dollars, and are rarely more than $20,000. For the organization,…
Tagged with: Backup, Deduplication, DRaaS, Encryption, Infrascale, Malware, Ransomware, Recovery, ROI, WannaCry
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When Does Your Data Center Need NVMe?
NVMe is a new protocol that most data centers will use within the next several years in addition to SCSI. The path to NVMe will not require an infrastructure overhaul. Instead it will be a gradual, almost seamless process. And…
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