In a recent Storage Switzerland write up, “Is Real-time Tiering the Next Big Thing in Storage?”, we explored Dot Hill’s AssuredSAN Pro 5000 disk array systems and their interesting data tiering technology. Dot Hill is a disk array manufacturer that’s…
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Performance, Interface Flexibility and Encryption in Mid-range Array
Tagged with: Big data, Disk array, Dot Hill, Fibre Channel, IOPS, ISCSI, SAS, Serial attached SCSI, Solid-state drive
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Scale out NAS Backup for Scale out Storage
Backup seems like a simple concept, one that for most companies involves a fairly simple process, copying data to a dedicated storage area. But most companies still struggle with it and for the largest enterprises and government agencies the process…
Tagged with: Backup, Big data, Data deduplication, NAS, OptiScale, Scalability, Scale-Out, Sepaton, VirtuoSO
Posted in Product Analysis
Posted in Product Analysis
Big Data Demands Big Changes to Legacy Backup Licensing
It is no surprise that backup related expenditures represent a major cost center for most data center environments. As data grows, so grows the need to increase the hardware and software resources for protecting this information. Denser disk and tape…
Object Storage Industry Veteran Cleversafe now Supports Hadoop
OBS has been a hot topic of late, and rightly so, it’s a technology whose time has come. The advantages it brings to companies facing extreme data growth, often referred to as ‘hyper-scale’ environments, are pretty remarkable. Basically, object storage…
Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, Hadoop, Hardware, MapReduce, Object Storage, Storage
Posted in Case Study
Posted in Case Study
How Does Shutterfly Keep 80PB of Pictures Safe and Available?
Shutterfly is the market leader in digital, personalized photo products, currently serving millions of customers who benefit from unlimited, secure (and free) storage, plus a 100 percent happiness guarantee. They help customers turn their pictures into lasting keepsakes, such as…
Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, Disk array, Hardware, Object Storage, RAID, Shutterfly, Storage
Posted in Case Study
Posted in Case Study
Permabit’s Albireo – From Dedupe to Software-Defined Storage
Permabit recently announced the latest additions to their Albireo Virtual Data Optimizer (VDO) deduplication and thin provisioning software for Linux-based storage systems. Permabit added turnkey software applications for compression and replication. With these additions, Permabit enables storage OEMs to level…
Object Storage Supercharges DMF Tiered File Architecture
For 21 years SGI has been virtualizing primary disk with tape using DMF, their storage tier virtualization software. This solution creates a seamless fabric across multiple tiers of storage, ranging from high-speed flash-based storage on the front end down through…
Cleversafe is An Established Supplier in the Re-emerging Object Storage Market
The explosion of unstructured data and the emergence of Big Data Archiving has created use cases where organizations have almost unlimited capacity requirements but still need good retrieval performance. Traditional NAS file storage can’t scale large enough and the deep…
Tagged with: Big data, Cleversafe, NetApp, Object Storage, Scalability, Shutterfly, Storage, Unstructured data
Posted in Blog
Posted in Blog
Solving Hadoop Storage Challenges by Converging Storage and Compute
Cleversafe’s object-based, scale-out storage architecture leverages a unique information dispersal algorithm to distribute data objects across multiple storage nodes (called Slicestor ** nodes). These nodes can be located in a single data center or spread around the world. Using a…
Tagged with: Apache Hadoop, Big data, Cleversafe, Data center, Hadoop, Hardware, HDFS, MapReduce, Object Storage
Posted in Briefing Note
Posted in Briefing Note
Comparing LTO-6 to Scale-Out Storage for Long-Term Retention
Thanks to the requirements of Big Data, compliance and regulatory controls organizations are now faced with the daunting challenge of storing a much larger amount of the data they create for a significantly longer period of time. Also, the need…
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