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Alternatives to the Public Cloud

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Krista Macomber

As discussed in our previous blog, cloud computing is commonly heralded as the future, in large part due to the ability to procure and to pay for IT infrastructure resources on demand. The problem is that the cloud does not…

Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-Out, Virtualization
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15 Minute Webinar: What Are Composable Infrastructures?

Posted on May 6, 2019 by George Crump

IT professionals are hearing a lot about composable infrastructures and many vendors are claiming to offer a solution, but only a few have truly composable solutions ready for deployment today. The goal of composability is to bring the cloud like…

Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-in, Scale-Out
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The Requirements of a Cloud-Like Experience for On-Premises Mission Critical Workloads

Posted on April 12, 2019 by George Crump

The cloud provides computing, networking and storage resources on a pay-as-you-go basis. IT resources become an operational expense. Most on-premises data center resources need to be purchased up front. IT resources are a capital expense. The challenge with purchasing hardware…

Tagged with: CapEx, Cloud, Composable Storage, Disaster recovery, DRaaS, Kaminario, Scale Right, Scale-in, Scale-Out
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Making the Composable Data Center a Reality – Liqid Briefing Note

Posted on April 12, 2018 by George Crump

For the Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) to deliver its full potential it is necessary to bring together resources like CPUs, GPUs, storage and network into a dynamic pool from which applications or services pull those resources as needed. Then…

Tagged with: Cloud, Composable Storage, Flash, IoT, Liqid, NVMe, PCIe, SDDC
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Reshaping the Storage Technology Landscape – Kaminario Briefing Note

Posted on February 15, 2018 by George Crump

The storage industry isn’t changing; it is reshaping. What is the difference? If the industry were changing, it would be its choice to change, driven by internal motivations. Instead, outside influences are reshaping the industry. What are the primary drivers…

Tagged with: Cloud, Composable Storage, dr, Kaminario, NVMe, NVMe-F, Replication, SAS, SDDC, SDS, SSD
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Breaking Down Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra Silos – DriveScale Briefing Note

Posted on September 21, 2017 by George Crump

The storage architecture of most next generation applications, like Hadoop, Spark and Cassandra, leverage local, direct attached storage to avoid excessive storage traffic on the network and keep costs down. While this architecture does accomplish its goals, it also re-creates…

Tagged with: Cassandra, Composable Storage, DAS, DriveScale, Hadoop, JBOD, LUN, Shared Storage, Spark
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Storage Architecture 3 – Composable Storage

Posted on September 6, 2017 by George Crump

The data center needs a new storage architecture. The first architecture, dedicated scale-up storage, provides high performance and efficiency but is operationally complex at scale. The second architecture, scale-out shared everything architectures provides operational simplicity at scale but is less…