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Webinar: How To Design High Performance, Cost Effective Splunk Storage

Organizations have an analytics project right in front of them — log data created by the machines and systems they already have deployed. Analysis of this data can lead to better decisions, problem detection and tighter security. Splunk is a

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StorageShort: M&E – Content Distribution, Performance vs. Cost

One of the challenges facing Media and Entertainment (M&E) companies today is content distribution. No longer are users starting at their televisions screens waiting for content to come to them. They want access to the content when they want to

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Amazon re:Invent: Cohesity Briefing – Modernizing Secondary Storage

While the industry places a lot of attention on all-flash arrays, for the most part these systems only service a small portion of data center capacity – the most active data. Secondary storage stores, or at least should store, the

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A Turnkey Storage Architecture for OpenStack and Docker

Scale-Out All-Flash Solution with Micron, Nexenta and SuperMicro Software Defined Storage (SDS) solutions bring the ultimate in flexibility but it does require that IT professionals work through the process of fine tuning the software with both the storage hardware and

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All-Flash, Go Fast or Go Deep?

All-flash arrays are known for IOPS and low latency. But there is another feature of flash that may end up being even more important than performance; density. All-flash array vendors are beginning to deliver PBs of capacity in a few

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Overcoming the M&E Data Delivery Challenge

IT professionals who work for Media and Entertainment (M&E) organizations face a myriad of new challenges such as dealing with the data capacity demands of higher and higher resolution cameras and preserving that data for decades. While these challenges are

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High Performance Object vs. High Performance NAS

Object Storage can take on a lot of roles in the enterprise. This flexibility is one the key values of object storage, the ability to serve as storage for a variety of use cases. With most of those use cases

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Webinar: Preserve, Distribute and Deliver – M&E’s Three Biggest Data Challenges

The world of Media and Entertainment (M&E) is constantly changing and those changes impact M&E IT. The challenges M&E IT professionals face are far greater than the obvious problem of increasing data and file size. Certainly, building storage infrastructures designed

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Data Center Modernization Still Needs Shared Storage

Organizations are increasingly embracing technologies like OpenStack and Docker so IT can become more agile, as well as be able to adapt to user or customer demands rapidly and cost effectively. IT’s new found agility, though, requires equal flexibility from

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ChalkTalk Video: Flash for Files? – Does It Make Sense?

All-Flash arrays were initially targeted at high-end databases that had the I/O demand to justify the investment. As the price of these systems come down, all-flash arrays are now easily justifiable as the primary storage system for virtual server and

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