Virtualization has become the de facto standard for the majority of enterprise applications, but most management tools cannot provide virtual machine (VM) level visibility and control over input/output (I/O) performance and other capabilities such as replication. Steve Phillips, Principal Systems…
Our previous blog highlighted the challenges of supporting artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) workloads with legacy file systems. Control node bottlenecks, inferior (or lack of) non-volatile memory express (NVMe) drivers, and inefficient capacity utilization are…
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) workloads often start as skunk works projects within an organization. After the proof of concept and testing they move into production, which means storage performance and capacity demands for the…
Fixing the Hybrid Cloud Storage Problem requires an understanding of how organizations intend to use it. First, most organizations continue to use on-premises storage to support their applications and users. Second, these organization’s data centers have multiple storage systems in…
Hybrid Cloud Storage is ideal for most organizations seeking to reduce the cost of their storage infrastructure and to leverage computing resources in the cloud. The problem in fully enabling a hybrid cloud storage strategy is the latency between on-premises…
The MLB Network is baseball’s premier broadcasting channel. It features non-stop 24-hour coverage of one of America’s favorite pastimes including complete game coverage, live look-ins, and in-depth analysis. The amount of data that the sport creates throughout a single season…
Before NVMe, most flash systems were either serial attached SCSI (SAS) or Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) based. In all-flash arrays, SAS was the preferred protocol because of its higher bandwidth and ability to support multi-port connections. NVMe is the…
Accelerating database performance remains a top use case for all-flash arrays, so it makes sense that most all-flash array systems only support block storage. However, only supporting block means that the customer assigns the “raw” volume to a server and…
Technically, if an All-Flash Array (AFA) supports hard disk drives, it is no longer an AFA. What if however, the system could start as an AFA and then later, to save costs, move older data to inexpensive, high capacity hard…
Cloud storage is typically known for its seemingly infinite capacity and low upfront costs. It also is operationally more economical since the organization does not need to house all the gear in its data center. The outsourcing of the hardware…
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