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What’s Hot in Storage for 2019? Trend #1: AI, but is it for Real?

Posted on January 2, 2019 by George Crump

Trend #1 Artificial Intelligence (AI) – AI is one of the most over-hyped terms in the industry. In 2019 that hype reaches new heights. Vendors will not only claim they have the perfect storage system for AI workloads but that…

Tagged with: AI, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, HCI, Hot2019, Hyperconverged, Machine Learning, MI, Storage Sprawl
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Webinar: How Hyper-Converged 2.0 Can Bring Tier 1 Applications into Your HCI

Posted on December 20, 2018 by George Crump

Hyperconverged Infrastructure is supposed to simplify the data center by creating an environment that automatically scales as new applications and workloads are added to it. The problem is that the current generation of HCI solutions can only address specific use…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, Axellio, Big data, Cloud, HCI, Hybrid, Hyper-converged, IoT, Machine Learning, MS-SQL, Virtualization
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The Public Cloud’s Role in Unstructured Data Management

Posted on December 11, 2018 by George Crump

Organizations are now drowning in unstructured data. Addressing the growth and managing this data is increasingly a high priority for organizations. The public cloud has a role to play and vendors must carefully integrate it into their unstructured data protection…

Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, CCPA, Cloud, eDiscovery, GDPR, Igneous, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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SlideShare: Dealing with the Elephant in the Datacenter – How to Protect, Manage, and Leverage Unstructured Data

Posted on November 30, 2018 by George Crump

IT is facing new challenges in managing unstructured data. Organizations want to store more unstructured data and keep it longer for future analysis. However, the protection and retention methods of traditional backup and archive solutions are not keeping pace with…

Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, eDiscovery, Igneous, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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Overcoming the Unstructured Data Management Gap

Posted on November 29, 2018 by George Crump

Hardly a week goes by where an IT professional doesn’t hear “storage is growing,” to which they probably roll their eyes and think “no kidding.” What IT needs is more than just appreciation of the problem is a solution to…

Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, eDiscovery, Igneous, IoT, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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Do You Need to Re-Prioritize Unstructured Data Management Priorities?

Posted on November 27, 2018 by George Crump

In our on demand webinar “The Elephant in the Data Center – Protecting, Managing and Leveraging Unstructured Data”, Storage Switzerland and Igneous discuss the recent 2018 State of Unstructured Data Management report. The report is available as an attachment to…

Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, eDiscovery, Igneous, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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Lightboard Video: Managing Unstructured Data at Scale

Posted on November 15, 2018 by George Crump

Unstructured data as it scales from terabytes to petabytes creates a massive problem for organizations as they attempt to protect and manage that data. IT struggles with gaining visibility into the state of their unstructured data, which often requires multiple…

Tagged with: Archive, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud, Igneous, Machine Learning, NAS, Redundancy, Replication, Unstructured data
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Bringing Tier 0 in From the Lunatic Fringe – Violin Systems Briefing Note

Posted on October 4, 2018 by George Crump

In most data centers, Tier 1 production storage has evolved from high-end hard disk-based systems to hybrid systems supported by flash to all-flash arrays. These Tier 1 systems are also typically well equipped with enterprise features like snapshots, replication and…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Artificial Intelligence, Deduplication, Fibre Channel, Flash, Hybrid, Machine Learning, NVMe, Replication, Snapshot, Violin Systems
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Virtualizing Mission Critical Applications Exposes New Storage Bottlenecks

Posted on September 27, 2018 by George Crump

IT administrators have reached a level of confidence with VMware and other hypervisors that make them more comfortable with virtualizing mission-critical workloads, like Oracle, SAS, and SAP. The goal is to gain the flexibility of a virtual compute infrastructure to…

Tagged with: Artificial Intelligence, DAS, Flash, Machine Learning, NVMe, NVMe Flash, NVMe-oF, SAN, Vexata, Virtualization
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Solving the Flash Density Pipes Problem

Posted on September 19, 2018 by George Crump

The density of flash storage is increasing every year, 64TB solid state drives (SSD) are arriving next year, and within a year the data center may see 100TB+ SSDs become commonplace. Another significant change is that the data center, thanks…