Organizations are being inundated with data for a variety of use cases like storing old data or rich media, enabling file sharing and synchronization and forming a data lake for analytics projects. They need to store all this data, ideally…
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Briefing Note: HDS Acquires Pentaho to bring Big Data Analytics to the Masses
HDS just announced it’s completed the acquisition of analytics platform manufacturer Pentaho, a move that’s been in the works for several months. As expected from an established player in the storage space, HDS has been focused on Big Data Analytics,…
ChalkTalk Video: Nimble’s InfoSight – Using Big Data to Solve Virtualization’s Storage Problems
Virtualization is making things tough on storage. Companies are expanding the use of server virtualization from business critical applications to full virtualization of mission critical applications. And they’re increasing VM density, expanding the number of virtual machines supported by each…
Analyst Blog: Why Design a Forever Retention Strategy?
In 2015 Storage Switzerland is again partnering with Storage Decision / TechTarget to deliver a 13 city road tour on data protection, entitled “Backup 2.0”. As I discussed in a previous column, in these sessions we are going to break…
Tagged with: Analyst Opinion, Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Data Retention, Recovery in Place, RPO, RTO, Snapshot, Storage Decisions, TechTarget
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Briefing Note: Will Micron’s Automata Processor Solve IT’s Big Data Performance Problem?
Big Data is becoming a big problem for IT as companies rush to embrace the holy grail of analytics and find their traditional compute infrastructures aren’t up to the task. Storage performance has historically been the limiting factor, even at…
Tagged with: Analytics, Big data, CUP, Infrastructure, Internet of Things, IoT, Micron, PCIe, Unstructured data
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Orchestrating Copy Data
2015 will be THE year of copy data management. Multiple vendors will bring solutions to the market. Many of these solutions will leverage snapshot technology in one form or another in an effort to reduce the capacity requirements of secondary…
Tagged with: Analytics, Capacity, Catalogic, Copy Data, Data Protection, Disaster recovery, Snapshot, Test/Dev, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: VI’s VirtualWisdom4 shows you how to Manage your Open Systems Performance
Virtual Instruments provides active system monitoring and management solutions that generate a significant amount of data to improve SAN efficiency and performance. But users need more than an abundance of information to effectively manage their environments. In fact, this profusion…
Tagged with: Analytics, Converged Infrastructure, Efficiency, FC, Flash Array, performance, SaaS, SAN, Software as a service, Virtual, Virtual Instruments, Virtual machine
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Briefing Note: Catalogic releases Zero-Touch Copy Data Solution
If primary data is growing, the copies made of that data are exploding, with a growth rate expected to be 10X that of primary data. These copies are most often used for data protection, test/development, compliance, archive, and analytics. Fortunately,…
Tagged with: Analytics, Archive, Catalogic, Compliance, Copy Data, Data Protection, Snapshots, Test/Dev, Virtual machine, VM
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Analyst Blog: Data Protection Workshops become Design-shops in 2015
Our second year of Data Protection Workshops, in conjunction with TechTarget/Storage Decisions, are underway and coming to a city near you. The theme of this year’s sessions will be breaking the rules of data protection to meet the stricter and…
Tagged with: Analytics, Backup, Cloud, Compliance, Data Protection, Data Retention, file sync and share, FS&S, Hybrid Cloud, Service Level Objective, SLO, Storage Decisions, TechTarget, Test/Dev
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Storage FAQ: The State of Flash in 2015
Storage Switzerland held a well-attended webinar with Tegile called “The State of Flash in 2015”. Storage Switzerland Founder George Crump and Tegile System’s Chief Marketing Officer Narayan Venkat review some follow-up questions to the webinar. Question 1: “What is the…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Analytics, Big data, Flash, Hybrid, Hypervisor, I/O, Infrastructure, performance, Software Defined, Tegile
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