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The Advantages of Storage Sprawl
Fighting storage sprawl may sound like the right thing to do but for some data centers storage sprawl is a reality that they can’t stop. There are too many moving parts. Instead of fighting it, it may make more sense to face reality. Learn how second generation software-defined storage enables IT to embrace sprawl.
Tagged with: Capacity, Consolidation, ioFABRIC, performance, QOS, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Storage Sprawl
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Docker Defined Storage
Portworx Briefing Note Docker is changing the application development process, but most data centers want to leverage the agility and efficiency of containers from development all the way through production. The move to production requires data persistence that keeps the…
Tagged with: Capacity, Container, Docker, Infrastructure, performance, Portworx, Virtual machine, VM
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Enterprise Grade SDS
SUSE Enterprise Storage 2 Briefing Note Industry Analysts predict that Software Defined Storage (SDS) will replace enterprise class storage over the next five to ten years. The key drivers for this displacement are increased cost and flexibility as well as…
Tagged with: Capacity, Linux, SDS, Software Defined, SUSE, Unstructured data
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Managing Active Unstructured Data
InterModal Data Briefing Note Unstructured data continues its endless growth. Much of this data is never accessed again after its creation, but there is a portion of it that is frequently accessed and needs to respond to those requests. The…
Tagged with: Active Unstructured Data, Archive, Capacity, DRAM, Flash, InterModal Data, ISCSI, NFS, Object Storage, performance, QOS, Unstructured data
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Unintended Consequences – All-Flash Arrays are Shrinking the Storage Market
The consensus outcome of reports on the ‘state of the storage market’ shows a market that is in decline by at least 10 percent. Those same research firms indicate that overall data capacity is growing at an alarming rate. So…
Tagged with: AFA, All-Flash Array, Capacity, Flash, Hybrid, IOPS, performance, SSD, Unstructured data
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What is Object Storage and what can you use it for?
For an increasing number of organizations, the traditional file server may have outlived its usefulness. File servers were designed in an era where most employees were in a single location; road warriors were a rare breed and the only files…
Why SDS is Struggling
Software Defined Storage (SDS) is one of those technologies that looks great on a whiteboard. In theory it should allow you to use any storage vendor’s hardware, overlay it with a common set of software capabilities and manage it all…
Tagged with: Capacity, Infrastructure, Roadshow, SDI, SDS, Software Defined Storage, Summit
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The easy button for OpenStack Swift gets better
Early this year we compared the work involved in building a storage infrastructure around OpenStack Swift versus using SwiftStack. While the names OpenStack Swift and SwiftStack are similar, the process of getting to the point where you can write data…
Tagged with: Architecture, Archiving, Capacity, Cloud, Object Storage, Software Defined Storage, SwiftStac
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Hadoop and OpenStack for Enterprise Big Data – Moving from Erector Set to Ready To Go
Big Data Analytics is more than just an interesting IT initiative, these infrastructures are starting to re-shape how businesses develop new products, respond to customer needs and achieve new levels of efficiency. The problem is that most Hadoop environments, the…
Tagged with: Big data, Capacity, Data Protection, Hadoop, HDS, Hitachi Data Systems, Hyper-converged, Infrastructure, OpenStack, Reliability, Scale-Out
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