Couchbase and Cassandra count on the active data set to be in RAM. To overcome the RAM limits of a single server and to make more compute available, the environments run in a cluster that aggregates the RAM and CPU…
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The Need for Speed – High Performance Object Storage
Object storage is often thought of as the storage system where data goes to die. Its cost effective and data integrity does make it an ideal storage mechanism for long term data archive. But there are times where a higher…
Tagged with: Capacity, Flash, Metadata, NAS, Nexenta, Object Storage, Replication, SSD
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Break Vendor Lock-in with Data Virtualization
For quite some time now, organizations have struggled to keep up with explosive data growth that continues to grow exponentially each year. In addition to the never ending demand for faster application response times, most data now needs to be…
Tagged with: Capacity, Metadata, Overprovision, performance, Primary Data, Software Defined, Virtualization
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Disaggregated Hadoop Clusters – DriveScale Briefing Note
Web-scale applications are designed to run on dozens, if not thousands, of small commodity servers, which expect direct-attached storage. As a result storage performance and capacity is directly tied to the purchase of more compute (servers). Over time almost every…
Tagged with: Capacity, DriveScale, JBODS, performance, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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Briefing Note – SUSE Enterprise SDS Version 3
This past January, Storage Switzerland provided its analysis of SUSE Enterprise Storage 2, a hardened version of Ceph designed to address enterprise concerns over the open software defined storage solution. That release saw SUSE add capabilities like heterogeneous OS access…
Tagged with: Capacity, CEPH, CIFS, NFS, Replication, Scale-Out, SDS, Software Defined, SUSE
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NoSQL is Breaking Storage
NoSQL databases like Cassandra and Couchbase are quickly becoming key components of the modern IT infrastructure. However this modernization creates new challenges – especially for storage. These modern applications all count on DRAM memory to deliver rapid results to user…
Webinar: Overcoming the Storage Challenges Cassandra and Couchbase Create
NoSQL databases like Cassandra and Couchbase are quickly becoming key components of the modern IT infrastructure. But this modernization creates new challenges – especially for storage. Storage in the broad sense. In-memory databases perform well when there is enough memory…
Where is the Cloud? The Cloud is a Method, Not a Location
In IT circles when the discussion of “the cloud” comes up, whether for cloud compute or cloud storage, the first thought is a public cloud like Amazon, Google or Azure. But the reality is the cloud is not a location,…
Scaling, There’s More To it Than Just Adding Nodes
Driven by either the demand for more capacity, more performance or both, every storage system at some point has to scale. Broadly there are two types of scaling available: scale-up or scale-out. Scale-up systems scale by adding more capabilities to…
Can IT do Cloud Storage better than Cloud Providers?
Outsourcing some or all of your organization’s storage needs to a cloud provider sounds very appealing to overworked IT professionals. After all, who wouldn’t want to get rid of having to deal with storage management, data protection and upgrades? Cloud…
Tagged with: Capacity, ClearSky, Cloud, Cloudian, Data Encryption, Data Protection, Latency, Unstructured data
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