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Briefing Note: Will Micron’s Automata Processor Solve IT’s Big Data Performance Problem?

Posted on February 17, 2015 by Eric Slack

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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Storage FAQ: The State of Flash in 2015

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

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
Posted in Storage Q&A

Leveraging Analytics for Smarter Storage Systems

Posted on February 10, 2015 by George Crump

Almost since their inception, storage systems have been keeping log files that track everything that is going on with that storage system. Over the years the type and granularity of data that is captured has increased, and today these systems…

Tagged with: Analytics, Architecture, Big data, Cloudian, Logging, Metadata, performance, Reliability
Posted in Blog

Briefing Note: Panasas makes HGST 6TB Helium drive Practical for Big Data

Posted on January 16, 2015 by George Crump

Big Data, Sensor Data and Business Analytics are accelerating the already rapid growth of unstructured data. To make matters worse these data sets often need to be retained in an online format for very long periods of time. The capacity…

Tagged with: Big data, Business Analytics, Data Protection, High Capacity, Hybrid, Metadata, NAS, Panasas, Reliability, SATA, Scale-Out, SSD, Unstructured data
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Ten IT Trends for 2015 from HDS and StorageSwiss

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Eric Slack

In a recent webinar Storage Switzerland Founder, George Crump, and HDS CTO, Hu Yoshida, discussed 10 IT Trends for 2015. A theme of this list was the importance of “business-defined IT” and the specific technologies that are coming to support…

Tagged with: Big data, Business-Defined, Cloud, Consolidation, Convergence, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyper-convergence, Trends
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Is Commodity Storage Hardware really less expensive?

Posted on December 4, 2014 by George Crump

In his recent blog, Hitachi Data Systems’ CTO, Hu Yoshida, discusses the top 10 business trends that will impact IT in 2015. Number four on his list is “Software Defined Everything”. One of the theoretical selling points of software defined…

Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Cloud, Commodity Hardware, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Software Defined, Trends
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Why Business-Defined IT may well Define IT in 2015

Posted on December 1, 2014 by Eric Slack

One of the IT trends that we see coming in 2015 is something called “Business-Defined IT”. This is essentially a focus for IT on collaborating with internal business entities and providing business services rather than just building and running infrastructure.…

Tagged with: Automation, Big data, Business-Defined IT, Cloud, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Trends
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Dell World 2014 – Michael Dell’s opening Press Conference

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Eric Slack

It’s been a year since Dell became a private company. At his opening press conference at Dell World 2014 Michael Dell sounded like a CEO who likes coming to work every day, no longer subjected to Wall Street’s fixation over…

Tagged with: All-Flash, Big data, Converge, DAS, Dell, Dell World, Disk array, Hybrid, ISCSI, Software Defined
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Dell: “We can’t just deliver components”

Posted on November 5, 2014 by Eric Slack

Big Data, the Internet of Things and a host of other challenges are facing companies today. But according to Mike Davis, Director of Marketing for Storage Solutions, when Dell and their partners meet with these companies they can’t just sell…