Today’s organizations look at data differently: It’s seen as an asset that can be mined to improve product creation and delivery as well as improve customer satisfaction. External forces also see data differently: Governments and customers expect organizations to maintain…
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…
For most organizations, unstructured data is their biggest problem. The need to store all this data is forcing IT to expand primary storage capacities at an alarming rate. Unstructured data not only threatens to break IT budgets, but also force…
Modern data privacy regulations and business requirements to utilize data for competitive advantage make it important for storage professionals to ensure that file data is managed in a way that controls the costs of underlying infrastructure while at the same…
Containers and microservices are on the tipping point of disrupting the market, by serving the agility required by modern DevOps-centric business processes. However, serving persistent storage to containerized applications as they are moved into production is difficult with legacy data…
A recent study by Osterman Research found that two-thirds of storage decision makers at mid-sized and large enterprises believe that 50% of the total data that their organization is storing is inactive. This translates into the organization paying to archive…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming solidified as an important tool for competitive advantage, used by organizations of all sizes and across industries. Legacy network-attached storage (NAS) systems, however, are not equipped to provide the levels of throughput that these workloads…
Storage Switzerland recently wrote about the need for enterprises to move away from using backup processes for long-term data retention use cases. Backup implementations add value in providing high availability and fast (or instant) recovery of the enterprise’s most critical…
Migrating to the hybrid cloud stands to allow businesses to balance agility, cost, performance, and security requirements. However, the complexity of implementing a global management structure that accounts for all data and that gets that data where it needs to…
Artificial Intelligence workloads push current IT architectures to their extremes. For the first time both computing horsepower and All-Flash Storage I/O can be overwhelmed by AI demands. GPUs from companies like Nvidia have largely solved the computing problem but the…
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