The need to solve data problems at scale is arguably the most prominent storage driver today — whether hardware, software or cloud services. In this regard, Splunk is quickly becoming a textbook use case. Splunk is an application that analyzes…
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Is Scaling Splunk Stressing Your Architecture? Evaluate SmartStore
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, EC, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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Why SwiftStack for Splunk SmartStore?
Solving the Data Management Challenges Created by Growth in Splunk Usage One of the biggest challenges when it comes to generating business intelligence from large, distributed datasets like Splunk is meeting very large capacity and very fast search performance requirements…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, EC, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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What is High versus Extreme Performance?
While some applications in the data center require extreme performance, high performance is now a default requirement for all production applications. How performance is measured varies by application (for example, one application might require very high throughput while others might…
Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, Replication, Violin Systems
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Is Object Storage Really the Future of Unstructured Data Storage?
Simply put, unstructured data is breaking traditional network-attached storage (NAS) architectures. The scale-up nature of traditional NAS solutions renders the storage controller a bottleneck in being able to handle the intensive metadata operations that are associated with unstructured files, forcing…
Tagged with: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Big data, Cloud, Hybrid, IOPS, IoT, NAS, NVMe, Object Storage, POSIZ, Qumulo, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Rearchitecting Storage for the Next Wave of Splunk Data Growth
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…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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Knee (or Neck) Deep in Storage Systems Management? Try a More Intelligent Approach
Minimizing the total cost of ownership (TCO) and maximizing the uptime of storage infrastructure has never been more important. More data is being captured and utilized by the business, and a new tier of premium-priced non-volatile memory express (NVMe) arrays…
Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Data Privacy, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, SQL, SSD, TCO, Western Digital
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What is Extreme Performance?
The modern data center has to support many different types of workloads, each of which makes different demands on the storage architecture. Today, standard all-flash arrays (AFA) are the mainstream storage system for the data centers and conventional best practice…
Tagged with: AFA, AI, All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, ML, NVMe, Replication, Violin Systems
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Are NVMe Flash Arrays Viable for Traditional Workloads?
NVMe Flash Arrays promise an unprecedented level of performance thanks to the higher command count, queue depth and PCIe connectivity. Most NVMe Arrays are boasting IOPS statistics of close to one million IOPS and latency in the low hundreds of…
Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Compression, Deduplication, Flash, IOPS, IoT, Machine Learning, NVMe, ROI, SAS, Western Digital
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The Requirements of a SmartStore Storage Infrastructure
Splunk SmartStore enables organizations to achieve a high degree of compute/storage elasticity and makes it possible to achieve longer data retention without compromising performance or breaking the budget. A critical component of SmartStore is the storage system that it uses…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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How Splunk SmartStore Enables Scalable Business Intelligence
Previously, Storage Switzerland wrote about the need to be able to scale compute and storage independently, when it comes to serving distributed Splunk data sets for business intelligence. In this blog, we investigate Splunk’s recently launched SmartStore capability, and how…
Tagged with: AI, All-Flash, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Flash, HDD, Hybrid, Machine Learning, Metadata, ML, NoSQL, Splunk, SwiftStack
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