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Designing Splunk Friendly Storage Architectures

Posted on October 28, 2016 by George Crump

Tegile Briefing Note Of all the “modern” data center applications, Splunk seems to be one of the more popular among more traditional data centers. This is due to Splunk’s specific use case: log data from machines. Almost every enterprise has…

Tagged with: Flash, IoT, Latency, Metadata, performance, Shared Storage, Splunk, Tegile
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New Scalar Storage Platform meets Unstructured Data Challenge

Posted on October 21, 2016 by Joseph Ortiz

Quantum Scalar Briefing Note Organizations today face two major issues in dealing with the ever-rising tide of unstructured data. First, where to cost effectively store it. Second, how to ensure proper protection of data from loss and threats such as…

Tagged with: Capacity, Cloud, Malware, Metadata, Migration, Quantum, Ransomware, Tape, Unstructured data
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Making Storage Consolidation a Reality

Posted on October 21, 2016 by George Crump

INFINIDAT Briefing Note The concept of a single storage system to serve the entire data center has been with us as long as the data center itself. But now we are seeing an explosion in the number and variety of…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Capacity, Compression, DRAM, Flash, Infinidat, Latency, NAS, SAN, Snapshot, Storage Sprawl
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Can the SME market automate DR? – Zetta Briefing Note

Posted on September 29, 2016 by wcurtispreston

The Small to Medium Enterprise (SME) market is often overlooked by storage hardware and software vendors. Some vendors focus only on the enterprise customers who need many petabytes of data while other vendors focus only on individuals and the SMB…

Tagged with: Cloud, dr, DRaaS, RPO, Scale, SME, Zetta
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Bringing Copy Data Management to Pure Storage

Posted on September 14, 2016 by George Crump

Catalogic Briefing Note The goal of a copy data management (CDM) solution is to limit the number of secondary copies of data by combining advanced snapshots and replication with orchestration to automate how secondary copies of data are presented to…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Catalogic, CDM, Compression, Deduplication, Pure, Replication, Snapshot
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Hyperconvergence and VDI – The Perfect Match?

Posted on September 9, 2016 by George Crump

Atlantis Briefing Note Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI) look good on the IT whiteboard. Their lower operational costs and longer desktop/laptop life expectancy are top expectations. In execution, however, the projects often stall. Calculating the necessary compute performance, storage performance and…

Tagged with: Atlantis, Compression, Deduplication, Hyperconvergence, performance, Snapshot, Thin provisioning, VDI
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Overcoming the Hyperconvergence Planning Problem

Posted on September 7, 2016 by George Crump

Maxta Briefing Note Hyperconvergence is a compelling solution to organizations trying to simplify their virtual infrastructures in an effort to be more “cloud-like”. The technology consolidates storage software into the hypervisor of a virtual infrastructure, eliminating the need for a…

Tagged with: Clones, Compression, Data Protection, Deduplication, Hyperconvergence, Maxta, Replication, Snapshot, Thin provisioning
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Monitoring VMware with Artificial Intelligence

Posted on September 2, 2016 by wcurtispreston

SIOS Briefing Note There is no way we can optimize all the VMs in this world — and yet they need to be optimized. The sooner we all accept these two facts, the sooner we can move on to something…