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StorageSwiss at Amazon AWS re:Invent

Storage Switzerland is at Amazon AWS re:Invent again this year. We are lurking the halls of re:Invent, tackling vendors and users to get their thoughts on what’s going on with the cloud. Amazon re:Invent Bigger Than VMworld VMworld has been

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A Turnkey Storage Architecture for OpenStack and Docker

Scale-Out All-Flash Solution with Micron, Nexenta and SuperMicro Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions bring the ultimate in flexibility but it does require that IT professionals work through the process of fine tuning the software with both the storage hardware and

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The Role of Object Storage in HPC Environments?

For most High Performance Computing (HPC) environments, high performance storage is a critical component in the infrastructure. The storage systems need to feed the compute infrastructure as quickly as possible. With object storage improving its performance and adding flash to

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The Great Debate – Public Cloud vs. Private Cloud Storage

A recent Storage Switzerland webinar sparked an online discussion on the idea of using cloud storage services coupled with a cloud caching appliance. As with all online discussions, there were some naysayers and some supporters. I enjoy debating anything –

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Google Storage vs. Amazon Storage

I recently learned just how different Google cloud storage is when compared to its main competitor, Amazon. People that found Amazon’s product and pricing choices bewildering might find this information very interesting. Like Amazon, Google has four different service levels:

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Is DRaaS a Panacea?

There are no panaceas, but DRaaS services are certainly starting to look very appealing if not close to being a panacea. They offer an ability to do disaster recovery in ways that simply weren’t possible for many companies. In our

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All-Flash, Go Fast or Go Deep?

All-flash arrays are known for IOPS and low latency. But there is another feature of flash that may end up being even more important than performance; density. All-flash array vendors are beginning to deliver PBs of capacity in a few

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Overcoming the M&E Data Delivery Challenge

IT professionals who work for Media and Entertainment (M&E) organizations face a myriad of new challenges such as dealing with the data capacity demands of higher and higher resolution cameras and preserving that data for decades. While these challenges are

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High Performance Object vs. High Performance NAS

Object Storage can take on a lot of roles in the enterprise. This flexibility is one the key values of object storage, the ability to serve as storage for a variety of use cases. With most of those use cases

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For Hyperconverged, Does The Hypervisor Matter?

Most hyperconverged infrastructures are turnkey solutions that include server hardware, storage software and a hypervisor. While that hypervisor tends to be VMware’s vSphere, we are seeing an increase in some of the alternative hypervisors, either Hyper-V or one of the

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