Is it possible to scale-out your scale-up storage solution even though it wasn’t built to do that? The only question is how you’re going to scale it out. Most methods of scaling (both out and up) add to complexity. So…
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Can Scale-Up Storage be Scaled-Out?
Tagged with: Capacity, Latency, performance, Primary Data, Scale Up, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Flash Memory Summit Video – The Data Center is All Flash But One Flash Doesn’t Fit All
Thanks to decreasing costs and increasing reliability the all-flash data center is becoming a reality. But as IT professionals understand the benefits of moving more and more workloads to flash they are also realizing that different workloads need different types…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Desktop virtualization, Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, IBM, performance
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Flash Memory Summit Video – Understanding Your Workload Before Flash
While flash can solve a lot of performance problems, storage is not the only reason that applications fail to meet the expectations of their users. Throwing flash at the problem will almost always help to some extent, but there are…
Tagged with: Flash, flash memory summit, FMS2016, Infrastructure, SolarWinds, Virtualization
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Flash Memory Summit Video – Which Flash is Right for Your Workload?
There are two key inflection points for the all-flash data center; when the all-flash array is purchased and during day-to-day operations. The first is before the flash array is purchased. There are a multitude of flash choices available to IT…
What is Data Monetization?
Data monetization is generating revenue using data previously created for another purpose. There are a number of ways to extract information and trends from that old data. Those trends that the company did not notice before give an organization fresh…
Tagged with: Big data, Caringo, Data Monetization, IoT, NAS, Object Storage, Unstructured data
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Are the Hardware Requirements of Your NoSQL Database Killing Your Budget?
When SSD isn’t fast enough for you, the rules have changed. Databases have always wanted more memory, but the demands of applications like Cassandra and Couchbase take this to a new level. The demands of NoSQL databases like Cassandra and…
Today’s Data must be Mobile
Data mobility was once the stuff of dreams – but no more. The days of data a user creates, manages, and eventually deletes living all in one place are no more. Data management applications that acknowledge this are the new…
The Need for Speed – High Performance Object Storage
Object storage is often thought of as the storage system where data goes to die. Its cost effective and data integrity does make it an ideal storage mechanism for long term data archive. But there are times where a higher…
Tagged with: Capacity, Flash, Metadata, NAS, Nexenta, Object Storage, Replication, SSD
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Modernized IT Needs an Intelligent Virtual Data Repository
The cloud is not a single location. It is a combination of private, public and hybrid cloud locations and an organization may have several of each. The cloud aspect means that data and workloads should move seamlessly between these locations.…
Tagged with: Cloud, Commvault, Data Protection, Infrastructure, Metadata, Snapshot, Virtualize, VM
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Aligning Data Demands to Storage Supply
Today’s applications have varying storage needs, including performance, protection, and long term retention. In a perfect world, you would store data on the storage system that best meets each of these needs. But the real world delivers a lot of…
Tagged with: Data Protection, Latency, Primary Data, Replication, Snapshot, Virtualization, VM
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