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…
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15 Minute Webinar: What Are Composable Infrastructures?
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
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
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…
Reshaping the Storage Technology Landscape – Kaminario Briefing Note
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
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
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…
