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Flash Memory Summit 2019 – Day 1

Posted on August 7, 2019 by George Crump

Storage Switzerland is at the 2019 edition of the Flash Memory Summit (FMS). Each day of the summit, we will be providing a quick summary of our meetings. Day 1 was a busy day for StorageSwiss as we raced from…

Tagged with: AI, DRAM, Flash, Flash memory, flash memory summit, FMS2019, HPC, NVMe, Pavilion Data, SAS, SATA
Posted in Briefing Note

For All-Flash Performance, Hardware vs. Media

Posted on August 5, 2019 by George Crump

In recent years the industry has seen the evolution of flash media from Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) based interconnects to Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) based interconnects. And now, PCIe interconnect is standardized around…

Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Deduplication, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, PCIe, Replication, ROI, SAS, Violin Systems
Posted in Blog

Top Four Data Analytics Challenges – Challenge 2: Technical Expertise

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Krista Macomber

The new era of data analytics has opened up a new opportunity for storage professionals to become strategic partners and advisers to line of business stakeholders. The problem is that completing analytics queries is taking far too long – frequently…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Cloud, Data Lake, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, MeetTheCEO, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium, TCO
Posted in Blog

Meet The CEO: MemVerge’s Charles Fan

Posted on July 24, 2019 by George Crump

Workloads like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), big data analytics, the Internet of Things (IoT) and data warehousing need storage memory-levels of performance. Charles Fan, CEO of MemVerge, has a vision for making this possible without disrupting the application…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big data, IoT, Machine Learning, Memory, MemVerge, ML
Posted in Webinar

SlideShare: The Top Four Challenges of Data Analytics and How to Solve Them

Posted on July 19, 2019 by George Crump

Data analytics and business intelligence (BI) initiatives have become mission-critical, but today, it is simply taking too long to arrive at insights. 90% of the time that it takes to generate insights lies in human labor, and that labor is…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, Metadata, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium
Posted in Slideshare

SwiftStack for AI, ML and DL

Posted on July 17, 2019 by Krista Macomber

How to Build a Multi-Cloud Data Pipeline for AI, ML and DL Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) are experiencing rapid adoption in a number of use cases, including autonomous vehicles, pharmaceutical drug research, predictive maintenance,…

Tagged with: AI, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Deep Learning, DL, HDD, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NFS, Object Storage, SMB, Software Defined, SwiftStack
Posted in Briefing Note

eBook: Doing More with Splunk Data…For Less

Posted on July 15, 2019 by George Crump

Enterprises use Splunk because it derives insights from information that organizations already have. It is clear that the more information that is available to the environments the more valuable the applications are. Ideally, organizations want to store all data relevant…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
Posted in Blog

Reduxio Focuses on Container-Native Storage

Posted on July 11, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Making Persistent Storage for Production Kubernetes Attainable Containers have become highly popular among DevOps shops due to their advantages in the areas of agility, simplicity and scalability. These same qualities make them attractive candidates for hosting modern applications such as…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Container, dev/ops, Erasure Coding, Hybrid, Metadata, Migration, ML, NVMe, NVMeoF, Reduxio, RPO, RTO, Software Defined, Virtualization, VMware
Posted in Briefing Note

SlideShare: Complete Your Cloud Transformation – Store Your Data in The Cloud (and live to tell about it)

Posted on July 5, 2019 by George Crump

Organizations are moving to the cloud but according to a recent Osterman Research study, only 14% of companies have completed that transformation. The study clearly identifies data storage as an area where IT can easily accelerate their cloud transformation journey.…

Tagged with: AI, Archive, Cloud, Compression, Deduplication, HubStor, Migration, ML, Osterman Research
Posted in Slideshare

Obtaining More Cost-Effective Splunk Queries with SmartStore

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Krista Macomber

Version 7.3 of the Splunk Enterprise machine data analytics and visualization platform is now available, and with it will come enhanced, more enterprise and production-grade support for Splunk’s SmartStore capability. This is significant because SmartStore stands to greatly lower the…