Unstructured data presents two scaling challenges to the data center. The first is capacity. It comes as no surprise to any IT professional that unstructured data is growing at an alarming rate. The second is performance, which may take some…
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Scaling Unstructured Data in the Cloud Era
Tagged with: All-Flash, Cloud, Flash, NAS, Nasuni, Object Storage, Replication, Scale, Unstructured data
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Real-time Storage Requires Real-time Analysis
All-Flash arrays enable applications to deliver real-time, instantaneous results to the applications using them. But to make sure those applications are getting the full benefit of the all-flash array requires an infrastructure that is also performing optimally. Real-time analysis is…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Analysis, ChalkTalk, CISCO, Flash, Hypervisor, Infrastructure, VM
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Unified Storage 2.0
There are so many ways that organizations use data and for the most part each use case needs a different storage system. The problem is a “storage system for every use case” strategy is expensive, complex to manage and very…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, All-Flash, Archive, file sync and share, Hybrid, NAS, Nexsan, Ransomware, SAN, Shadow IT, Sprawl, Unstructured data, Virtualization
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Storage Architecture 3 – Composable Storage
The data center needs a new storage architecture. The first architecture, dedicated scale-up storage, provides high performance and efficiency but is operationally complex at scale. The second architecture, scale-out shared everything architectures provides operational simplicity at scale but is less…
Optimized Performance for Oracle and MS-SQL – Vexata Briefing Note
In most cases CPU utilization is a direct result of how quickly can the storage architecture can respond to the IO request. Generally speaking, the lower the CPU utilization is the more time the CPU is waiting for the storage…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Encryption, Flash, KX, MS-SQL, NAND, NVMe, Oracle, RAM, SAS, Shared Storage, SSD, Vexata
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Will NVMe Over Fabrics Kill DAS?
Many advanced application architectures use Direct Attached Storage (DAS) instead of centralized shared storage for two reasons. First, in most cases sever drives are less expensive than drives found in shared storage systems. Second, storage that is internally accessed has…
ChalkTalk Video: Managing The All-Flash Infrastructure for Optimal Performance
When All-Flash Array vendors report performance benchmarks, they typically generate them in a perfect lab environment. The problem is the real data center adds a lot more variables. There are often multiple storage systems, that connect to a switch infrastructure,…
