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Disaster Recovery Workshop: Dealing with New Requirements, Expectations, and Threats

Posted on October 8, 2019 by George Crump

Disaster Recovery (DR) is changing, and DR plans need to change with it. Legislative bodies want companies to not only prove their ability to recover from a disaster, but they have specific guidelines as to how long that effort can…

Tagged with: AI, Cloud, Commvault, Containers, Cyber Security, Disaster recovery, dr, ML, Ransomware, Software Defined, VM
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Is Your Storage Architecture Ready for the Coming AI Wave?

Posted on October 7, 2019 by George Crump

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a broad term that can apply to various computing tasks, including machine learning, deep learning, and big data analytics. Many AI projects are in a proof of concept stage, but CIOs and IT Managers need to…

Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Analytics, Big data, Cloud, DL, GPU, HPC, ML, NAS, Panasas
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Is it Time to Rethink NAS for Unstructured Data?

Posted on September 18, 2019 by George Crump

Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems were once the primary storage destination for all unstructured data but with file-counts soaring past one billion and with machines replacing users as the primary creators of data, the industry is seemingly moving past NAS…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big data, Cloud, Hybrid, IoT, M&E, Machine Learning, ML, NAS, Object Storage, Qumulo, Unstructured data
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Flash Second – Getting Data Analytics Ready for Flash Storage

Posted on September 11, 2019 by George Crump

Accelerating a data analytics project is critical for storage vendors that sell storage systems designed for big data analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML). These vendors all thrive by helping their customer get answers to their questions faster…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Buisiness Intelligence, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, Metadata, Migration, ML, MLaaS, Promethium
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Developing an NVMe over Fibre Channel Strategy

Posted on September 11, 2019 by George Crump

Most All-Flash Arrays (AFA) are setup as block devices connected via a Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Network (SAN). The deterministic nature of FC and its inherent low latency are an ideal match for AFAs. As data centers begin to…

Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Analytics, CISCO, DAS, DL, ML, NoSQL, NVMe, NVMe-F, NVMe-oF, SA, SCSI
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Flash Memory Summit 2019 Day 2 – Western Digital

Posted on August 8, 2019 by George Crump

Our second day at Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2019 was another jam-packed day. Western Digital’s activities before and at the event are so extensive that we’ve broken them out into a full detailed briefing note on their IntelliFlash products and…

Tagged with: AI, Flash memory, flash memory summit, FMS2019, ML, NVMe, NVMe-oF, SAS, SDS, SSD, Western Digital
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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
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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
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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
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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…