Splunk enables organizations to analyze data that IT operations, security and the various lines of business create. The more of this data that is available for analysis the better decisions IT can make. Ideally organizations want their Splunk environment data…
Where previously unstructured data comprised a minority of the business’s data and was not strategic to the organization, that scale has tipped dramatically. Unstructured data may account for two-thirds or more of the data that businesses are collecting, storing, and…
Splunk is one of the most broadly adopted analytics applications on the market today. The primary reason for its popularity is it analyzes data that organizations already have, like log and metadata generated from IT operations, enterprise security and various…
One of the most significant challenges facing the storage industry today is minimizing application latency without breaking the bank, during the shift to premium-priced non-volatile memory express (NVMe) flash storage systems. The lightning-fast levels of solid-state drive (SSDs) performance and…
Artificial intelligence (AI) stands to dramatically impact business and IT operations alike, but in these early days, it is difficult for IT professionals to distinguish vendor buzz from reality. This is especially true when it comes to the storage market.…
As Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Deep Learning workloads go mainstream, organizations are struggling with how to develop a storage infrastructure to best meet the unique challenges of these workloads. AI/ML workloads typically include hundreds, if not thousands of servers…
For over a decade Network Attached Storage (NAS) was the go to file storage device for organizations needing to store large amounts of unstructured data. But unstructured data is changing. While large file use cases are still prevalent, small file…
Non-volatile memory express (NVMe) is arguably one of the most important new technologies to make its way into the data center, because it is capable of delivering the ultra-fast levels of performance that are required by a growing number of…
A smart and holistic data management platform is the linchpin to enterprise competitiveness, but at this point in time, it remains largely a nirvana that storage managers are chasing. In this article, Storage Switzerland explains what constitutes data management, how…
Data visualization and querying tools are all the rage, as businesses rely more on data analytics to compete more effectively. Meanwhile, the ability to query data is becoming more important in light of the need to adhere to data privacy…
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