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All-Flash for Mid-tier Data Center

Exablox Briefing Note Despite the continual decline in the cost of flash, all-flash arrays remain out of reach for many medium sized data centers. They are left trying to band-aid performance problems with server side caching or hybrid arrays instead

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Raising the Bar on Hyperconvergence, Storage and QoS

Pivot3 Briefing Note IT professionals have a lot of choices to make when they design their next generation infrastructure. They have to choose between a hyperconverged offering that consolidates compute, storage and networking into a single tier or a more

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Multi-Cloud DRaaS and Mobility

Zerto Briefing Note IT Professionals are under constant pressure to meet tighter and tighter recovery point objectives (RPO) and recovery time objectives (RTO). While traditional backup has a role to play in meeting these objectives, replication is moving more to

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Copy Data Management for Oracle and the Cloud

Catalogic Briefing Note Managing all the copies of the data in your environment is one of the keys to managing cost and making dev/test and analytics more efficient. Most organizations do a very poor job of managing their copies. A

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Persistent Memory is Reality

Everspin Briefing Note The concept of persistent memory, also known as non-volatile DRAM, has been with us for a while. However, the idea of RAM that never loses data even during an unexpected power loss is IT nirvana. Today’s semiconductor

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Open Software Defined Storage takes an Object Storage Step

Red Hat Ceph Storage 2 Briefing Note Software Defined Storage (SDS) continues to attract the attention of IT professionals, but broad adoption is not meeting the expectations IT professionals. Part of the challenge is that while SDS, in theory, breaks

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Advanced Data Protection for MongoDB, Cassandra and Hadoop

Datos IO Briefing Note Customers with massive petabytes sized cloud databases are exactly who Datos IO is looking for. Companies creating giant product catalogs that thousands of people a day are simultaneously accessing and updating find that they cannot meet

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NVMe over Fabrics Needs NVMe Storage Systems

E8 Flash Memory Summit Briefing Note When selecting a storage system users have to choose between reliability, performance and cost. Vendors try a variety of methods to deliver on all three. But as the old adage goes, you can only

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Hardware Matters More Than Ever

Violin Briefing Note The storage industry is going through growing pains. Especially over the last two and a half years as it tries to adapt to flash storage, cloud storage and software-defined storage. Pillars of the industry struggle to meet

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Flash As Memory Instead of Storage

Diablo Technologies Memory1 Briefing Note Flash is typically thought of as a fast alternative to storage, the ultimate hard drive upgrade. But it is memory, so there is no reason IT can’t use it as an alternative to DRAM. The

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